Electricity

Just a year and a half after a breakthrough Solar Grand Plan study was published in the January 2008 Scientific American, the U.S. government has begun plans to implement major elements of such a Plan.

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Since March 2008, Deconstructing Dinner has featured The Local Grain Revolution - a series tracking the evolution of Canada's first community supported agriculture (CSA) project for grain.

You can see it in the faces of those gathered to hear the latest news on the natural gas industry: Anxiety. Anger. Fear of losing everything they have. Frustration that there seems nothing anyone can do.

Multinationals eye up lithium reserves beneath Bolivia's salt flats
Will fertiliser scarcity harm farm economy?
Pressure over land rights to increase, conference told

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John La Grou plugs smart power outlets (video)
Jeff Vail: The renewables hump 4: EROEI issues
Google closing in on cheap renewable energy
China launches green power revolution to catch up on west

Allotment demand leads to 40-year waiting lists
Looking at Europe’s Green Ways
Energy policy of the Greens

The impact of the financial and economic crisis on global energy investment
IEA’s dire warning on green stimulus and renewables
Global electricity use forecast to fall

The gospel of green (Hermannn Scheer)
Jeremy Revkin: 'Distributed power' to save Earth
Love affair with gadgets squeezing power supply
'Alarming' use of energy, materials in newer manufacturing processes
How to save energy: plug in a new gadget