Five Ways to Fix the Housing Industry

I like these:
1) No more McMansions.
2) Fix what we’ve got.
3) Ration carbon for construction.
4) No more hurricane bait.
5) Don’t finance unless it is green.
For the entire treehugger.com article:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/memo-to-government-housing.php

Solar Power and Current Finance

From the Wall Street Journal:

For the solar-power industry, it was the best of times and the worst of times—all in the space of a long weekend. On Friday, after the passage of the Wall Street bailout bill that included juicy tax breaks for solar power, champagne was the order of the day. By Monday, as [...]

Federal Energy Subsidies

A very thought provoking chart on Federal energy subsidies…along with an article pointing out some of the paradoxes in the subsidy amounts.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/energy-subsidies-support-2007.php

Rhode Island Wind Energy Agreement

Though details are somewhat sketchy, Cleantech reports that Deepwater Wind has been selected to develop Rhode Island’s first offshore wind project. Expected to cost over $1 billion and supply 15% of the electricity requirements of the state (1.3 million megawatt-hours), no time scales has been presented for the project.
In addition to the wind project, Deepwater [...]

2008 EPA Report on the Environment

EPA today released the “2008 Report on the Environment: Highlights of National Trends” (2008 ROE HD), which provides the American people with an important resource for better understanding trends in our nation’s health and environment. The report is intended for a general audience and summarizes highlights of the more comprehensive “EPA’s [...]

The Impact of U.S. Offshore Drilling

GM’s Bob Lutz on the Chevy Volt…and Global Warming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVtfpYgoLcc

Google and GE

From an article by Matthew McDermott:
Expanding and improving the United States’ electrical transmission grid would be a major building block in creating an electrical supply that is reliable, efficient and clean. The move to make that happen got a new ally today: Google. The internet giant has announced that it will be partnering with GE [...]

The Problem with Ethanol

John Phipps posted this interesting graph.

0 to 60 in 28 Seconds

In 1969, GM introduced a hybrid car.

Chuck Squatriglia in Wired describes it: “The heart of the car was a 35 cubic inch (573 cc) two-cylinder engine — small enough to be exempt from the emissions rules of the day — coupled with a DC motor powered by six lead-acid batteries just like the one under [...]