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Doing the Right Environmental Thing Really Does Save Building Owners Money
There's a new study that proves what we know: making your building more energy efficient really saves you a lot of money. Read More...
Clean Air Violators Find Low Fees Mean Business-as-Usual
This article on Northwest's biggest polluters of the region's air points out the problem: as long as the EPA's fines cost less - a lot less - than the remedy of the cause of pollution, companies will continue to pollute as a business decision -- and the people in the region will continue to... Read More...
New Solar Technology Radically Lowers Price per Watt
Getting the price of solar down to where it can compete with fossil fuels per watt generated is crucial for our future. Optical cavity furnace technology, developed under the aegis of the NRE, takes us a big step down that road. Read More...
This Is What It Really Means To Be Fracked
This terrifying personal account of a woman who opened her farm in Pennsylvania to hydrofracking, brings us the hard reality of the process; of what really happens to any environment where it is used. Sensitive readers be warned. Read More...
Stormwater Problem Microcosm
This article on handling a local stormwater problem is a microcosm of the problems involved with with stormwater generally. Water being what it is, rechanneling can involve other people's back yards before you know it. Read More...
Oil and Gas Get Help They Don’t Need. Why Not Renewables, That Need It?
Every single one of our energy industries got -- and still gets -- help from the government. The only reason we balk at help for renewables is that we fall for the PR of the old industries: that renewables are chancy. But that's exactly why they need help. Read More...
Tar Sands Oil Desolates Canadian Environment
An area of boreal forest the size of Iowa, through which the 785-mile Athabasca River flows northeast on its way to feed northern lakes and deltas, is being dug up to feed our insatiable demand for oil at any cost, including the cost of environmental devastation. Read More...