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The Desertec Initiative announced two years ago its intentions to harness the power of the sun in the Sahara Desert. Now, the project is moving forward, with plans for the first construction to break ground in 2012. The 500-megawatt concentrated solar power plant (CSP) will cost a cool $2.8 billion and harness the power of the sun from the desert of Morocco. Desertec is a proje... weiterlesen...
Bound to rile people up so keep your knee-jerk in check: Mercury News reports on another example of the needs of balancing the equally pressing (and interlinked) needs of expanding renewable energy projecting and conservation. The Santa Clara Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, and a group of local residents are suing to block construction of a 399 MW solar power plant on 3,200 a... weiterlesen...
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Deliveries of Model S are Scheduled to Begin in Mid-2012
Soon after showing photos of the cosmetically updated Model S and announcing that it will raise money for the Model X, Tesla is now opening up Model S reservations to Canadian customers. Exact pricing for Canada is not know yet, but because of the exchange rate, it shouldn't be too far from weiterlesen...
Lake Travis (Austin, Texas), July 2009. Image credit:University of Nebraska at Lincoln, National Drought Center; Photo courtesy of Bridget Cameron, Texas Water Development Board.
Large swaths of US southern states are experiencing severe drought impacts, concentrated in the Lower Mississippi River watershed, and extending east through parts of Florida. Portions of Texas, as... weiterlesen...
Bright Young Things Style Challenger Tiffany of Six SIx Sick. Photo: Ayasha Guerin
When Bright Young Things (BYT), the sustainable fashion label that launched with one little black dress last month, asked if I would don their LBD for a Style Challenge I had to muster every ounce of will po...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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