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Standing up to lobbyists who want to derail clean energy. Back in March, I wrote about the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC’s) state-by-state attack on renewable energy.

Standing up to lobbyists who want to derail clean energy

The attacks contribute to ALEC’s growing reputation as a “shadowy right-wing front group,”; funded by the likes of Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy, the largest private-sector coal company in the world. Climate Poll: Three-Quarters Of Young, Independent Voters Describe Deniers As 'Ignorant, Out Of Touch Or Crazy' By Katie Valentine "Climate Poll: Three-Quarters Of Young, Independent Voters Describe Deniers As ‘Ignorant, Out Of Touch Or Crazy’" Credit: AP/Charles Dharapak A new poll has found climate science denialism in Congress is quickly losing favor among young voters, both Republican and Democrat.

Climate Poll: Three-Quarters Of Young, Independent Voters Describe Deniers As 'Ignorant, Out Of Touch Or Crazy'

Institute News / Global Institute of Sustainability / Arizona State University. July 17, 2013 In the July issue of Green Living magazine, contributor Cheryl Hurd talks with Gary Dirks, the new director of ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability and of ASU’s LightWorks.

Institute News / Global Institute of Sustainability / Arizona State University

Today Marks A Tipping Point In The Evolution Of Capitalism. Ratings and rankings: How competition promotes corporate sustainability. Competition breeds progress.

Ratings and rankings: How competition promotes corporate sustainability

Innovative products, remarkable technologies and consumer convenience are just a few examples of how competition improves our lives on a daily basis. Now, competition is changing the way that companies approach corporate sustainability. Bloomberg. Saxum_Energy_Final-Front-53523. Climate change is happening too quickly for species to adapt. Species that live on mountains, such as the snow leopard, are particularly at risk.

Climate change is happening too quickly for species to adapt

Photograph: Tom Brakefield/Getty Images Among the many strange mantras repeated by climate change deniers is the claim that even in an overheated, climate-altered planet, animals and plants will still survive by adapting to global warming. Corals, trees, birds, mammals and butterflies are already changing to the routine reality of global warming, it is argued. Certainly, countless species have adapted to past climate fluctuations. However, their rate of change turns out to be painfully slow, according to a study by Professor John Wiens of the University of Arizona. Arizona Solar Panel Users To Pay Extra Fee To Energy Company. That’s right: Arizona solar panel users will be expected to pay a special monthly fee to the Arizona Public Service Co., if a new proposal goes into effect.

Arizona Solar Panel Users To Pay Extra Fee To Energy Company

New Program Encourages Downers Grove Businesses, Non-Profits to Go Green - Going Green - Downers Grove, IL Patch. The Downers Grove Green Business Recognition Program—announced by the village Feb. 19—will recognize businesses that demonstrate significant green practices.

New Program Encourages Downers Grove Businesses, Non-Profits to Go Green - Going Green - Downers Grove, IL Patch

A new program in Downers Grove is encouraging local businesses and non-profits to go green. The Downers Grove Green Business Recognition Program, announced Feb. 19, is the brainchild of the village's environmental concerns commission. The goal is to recognize Downers Grove businesses that adopt environmentally sustainable practices, such as waste reduction or energy conservation. Send this crazy graph to the climate deniers you know. If you look at the last 13 decades, the past three have been the warmest — and increasingly so.

Send this crazy graph to the climate deniers you know

Germany peaks out with solar providing nearly 40% of its electric needs. This morning, July 8, CleanTechnica reported that Germany’s accumulative installed solar across the country produced 23.9 gigawatts (GWs)—roughly 40 percent of the country’s electric needs during its peak energy use. It’s a remarkable figure considering the nation’s northern location and blasts away California’s solar records, which recently have been surpassing 2 GWs at peak.

It also far surpasses the cumulative solar power production across the entire U.S. “A few hours ago, solar output climbed above the 22.68 GW solar power output record Germany set in April. Does The Tesla Model S Electric Car Pollute More Than An SUV? Does the supposedly clean, green Tesla Model S really pollute more than a gas-guzzling Jeep Grand Cherokee sport-utility vehicle?

Does The Tesla Model S Electric Car Pollute More Than An SUV?

That's what one analyst has claimed. In an exhaustive 6,500-word article on the financial website Seeking Alpha, analyst Nathan Weiss lays out a case that the Model S actually has higher effective emissions than most large SUVs of both the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and smog-producing pollutants like sulfur dioxide. As a 2013 Tesla Model S owner, I was shocked and concerned by his claims. Although carbon emissions were not a big factor in my decision to buy a plug-in car--I was more interested in performance, style, and low operating cost--the car's green cred was a nice bonus.

US Passes 10GW Installed Solar PV Capacity Milestone. Clean Power Published on July 9th, 2013 | by Silvio Marcacci America’s solar market has broken through the clouds to shine as only the fourth nation to pass the 10 gigawatts (GW) installed solar capacity milestone.

US Passes 10GW Installed Solar PV Capacity Milestone

Fast-growing solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment levels since 2010 pushed the US into the ultra-exclusive 10 GW club, reports NPD Solarbuzz in the latest North America PV Market Quarterly report. Why companies need to be held to account over their environmental debt. We all know about the two sides of the financial ledger – profit and loss corresponding to cost and expense. Every Dutch citizen will live within 31 miles of an electric vehicle charging station by 2015. The Dutch government plans to roll out a nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations within the next two years, as part of a push to facilitate more environmentally-friendly transport.

ABB, a Switzerland-based power and automation company, announced this week that it is teaming up with Dutch startup Fastned to install EV chargers at more than 200 stations across the Netherlands, with at least one station every 50 kilometers (31 miles). With more than 16 million inhabitants, the Netherlands is, to date, the most populous country to implement a nationwide EV charging network. According to ABB, its 50 kilowatt Terra fast chargers are capable of charging an electric car within 15 to 30 minutes.