Published January 20th, 2010 at 2:04 pm in Great Greenhouse Gas Grab with 2 comments
Tagged with climate, Greenhouse Gas Prorocol Initiative, ourgreenstreetsblog.com, sustainability, world resources institute
For those wanting to understand and know more about greenouse gases and their effects on people and climate, learn about The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol).
CHG Protocol is “the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. The GHG Protocol, a decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is working with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.
“It provides the accounting framework for nearly every GHG standard and program in the world – from the International Standards Organization to The Climate Registry – as well as hundreds of GHG inventories prepared by individual companies.
“The GHG Protocol also offers developing countries an internationally accepted management tool to help their businesses to compete in the global marketplace and their governments to make informed decisions about climate change.”
Visit the website, participate, ask questions, share. These are some of the action steps all of us need to be taking. Read more of this >>
Published January 20th, 2010 at 10:06 am in Announcements, Energy Emporium, circa 2020 with no comments
Tagged with AWEA, wind energy association, Wind Power
On March 17 in Greensboro, NC, the American Wind Energy Association is bringing representatives from a diverse range of industries, international and U.S.-based wind turbine manufacturers, component suppliers, service providers to the wind energy industry, and hear first hand the wind energy industry’s needs, challenges, and opportunities for growth.
Don’t miss this opportunity to network and share resources and best practices with industry leaders and experts, and your peers.
For more information visit:
www.awea.org/events/supplychain4
Published January 14th, 2010 at 12:46 pm in Carbon Conundrum, Children, Great Greenhouse Gas Grab, Growing Green Footprints, Uncategorized, renewable energy with no comments
Tagged with algae.sustainable fuel, american algae association, Barry Cohen, Energy, fossil fuel alternatives, renewable energy
I have not met Barry Cohen, executive director of the National Algae Association, based in Woodlands, Texas, nor discussed with him any of the challenges facing his nascent industry. But the challenge he made to his membership caught my attention:
“I am issuing a challenge for the year 2010: Build out a 100 acre turnkey algae production facility (growing, harvesting and extraction) without any local, state or federal grant funds.”
Mr. Cohen’s greeting to all for the beginning of 2010 is well worth reading, especially by all who want to see alternative fuels gain more solid footing on the American (and world) energy charts.
The accounting of his challenge ias worth the read:
“When this (American oil production) all started in 1859, nobody had all of the answers. 150 years later, the oil industry is still looking for answers. A 100 acre turn-key commercial-scale algae production facility will allow algae producers to look at real commercial algae production and operations as well as economies of scale issues. It will give algae researchers a much better understanding of commercial-scale algae production issues to work on as opposed to small raceway ponds and desk-top lab photobioreactors. It is, at this point, useless to continue to fund algae research without seriously funding commercial-scale algae production farms. As some have already learned, intellectual properties have no practical use if there is not an industry to use them. In order to create any value in existing algae technologies, we must have commercial-scale algae production facilities that can use them!
“Commercial-scale algae production is key to our industry and is one solution that helps to reduce dependence on foreign oil, to create new jobs and reduce CO2 emissions. The NAA challenges the algae industry to build a 100 acre commercial-scale algae production plant without any local, state or federal grants – this will be the true test of algae production farming and algaepreneurism at its finest!
“I would like to see the first 50 acres of production with proven benchmarked results – totally designed, developed and put into production without a single dollar of government money. The next 50 acres can be improved by making minor changes based on what was learned from the first 50 acres. I know it can be done, and you know it can be done – it´s time to do it!”
The entire document can be read at the association’s website .
Published January 7th, 2010 at 3:43 pm in Growing Green Footprints, Money with 2 comments
Tagged with 2009 green investing, clean tech, cleantech group, environmental leader, green tech investing, green venture capital
Not too surprising for those who made it through last year, Environmental Leader & The New York Times report clean tech investing fell by 33 percent in 2009.
Source: Cleantech Group
“Venture capital investments in green technology companies declined by 33 percent from $8.5 billion in 2008 to $5.6 billion in 2009, despite a flurry of government subsidies for renewable energy, according to a preliminary report by the Cleantech Group and Deloitte,” the Environmental Leader post stated.
As to the numbers, investments in green technology companies declined from $8.5 billion in 2008 to $5.6 billion in 2009. The decline would have been worse except for a flurry of government subsidies that were made for renewable energy.
For more detail on this report, visit either Fort Collins, CO – based Environmental Leader or The New York Times’ Green Inc. blog.
Published January 4th, 2010 at 2:45 pm in Carbon Conundrum, Energy Emporium, circa 2020, Food & Growing, Fuel alternatives with no comments
Tagged with
Mark Edwards, PhD
For those wanting more information on algae and its low-carbon potential as an alternative fuel source, take a visit to Oilgae , a blog focused on this subject.
Some might even want information on how to grow their own. Below are clips from today’s post:
“Cultivation of Algae in Photobioreactor”
“Algae can also be grown in a photobioreactor (PBR). A PBR is a bioreactor which incorporates some type of light source. Virtually any translucent container could be called a PBR, however the term is more commonly used to define a closed system, as opposed to an open tank or pond.
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