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Energy & Environmental News
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Diagnosing Sprawl…in 1959 Planetizen December 16, 2011
CTA Approves Solar Powered I-GO Car Charging Port at Kimball Brown Line Station Huffington Post December 15, 2011
Transit Oriented Development Potential for the San Juan Metro Area 35 x 100 Blog December 15, 2011
Chicago Car Sharing Program Using Solar to Charge New EV Fleet CleanEnergyAuthority.com December 14, 2011
Grid Bits: Taxi Reforms, Bike Sharing Update, and Crash Analysis GRID Chicago December 14, 2011
California High-Speed Rail – Conspicuous Conservation? California Progress Report December 12, 2011
2012 Real Estate Trends are Efficient Too Not YET Green December 11, 2011
Phoenix Must Look to Inward Development The Arizona Republic December 9, 2011
New Study Shows Evacuation Plans Need to Incorporate Family Perspectives Excitonic December 8, 2011
Gettin’ Down at the I-GO Car Sharing Members’ Holiday Party GRID Chicago December 2, 2011
I-GO to Add 11 Solar-powered Charging Stations Chicago Tribune December 1, 2011
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
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http://www.cnt.org/news/2012/02/03/cnt-press-mentions-december-2011/
A congressman's proposal to offer a $1 billion prize for 100 mpg cars has roots in history, but what history actually tells us may not be what he wants to hear.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are among the hundreds of groups setting aside political differences to unite against a proposal to cut mass-transit funding.
Could any appointee to the PUC chairmanship – the most fanatical, tireless, politically gifted, coal-hating, green-power devotee imaginable – use that role to dramatically redirect energy policy in Minnesota? In a parallel universe, maybe. In this one, not so much.
One in 10 babies along Minnesota's North Shore are born with unhealthy levels of mercury in their bodies, according to a new report on contamination around Lake Superior, the first to look for the pollutant in the blood of U.S. infants.
A Midwest ethanol company says it will begin building a five-acre production facility to grow algae fed by carbon dioxide emitted by its ethanol plant in Shenandoah, Iowa.
Enthusiasm for offshore wind projects may have cooled among developers in the United States these days, but the Obama administration is still trying to make a ribbon of wind farms off the Atlantic Coast a reality.
A combination of technology improvements and shifting economics will lead to significantly reduced costs for wind farm development over the next two years, new findings from two national laboratories show. Photo by grousemountainresort via Creative Commons
Oversight responsibility could become a formidable task in a state that's on the most direct route between Canadian oil sands and refineries along the Gulf Coast.
The governments of Canada and Alberta will announce details of a new environmental-monitoring regime in the province's oil sands on Friday, as they look to shore up an industry whose growth plans are under attack from environmental groups.
The Sierra Club disclosed Thursday that it received over $26 million from natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy Corp. between 2007 and 2010 to help the group’s campaign against coal-fired power plants.
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Photovoltaic shingles, three new insulation products, high-performance windows and skylights, and HVAC register covers for duct tightness tests
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My folder of interesting new building products is getting thick, so it’s time for another new product roundup. I’ll review three brands of photovoltaic(PV) Generation of electricity directly from sunlight. A photovoltaic cell has no moving parts; electrons are energized by sunlight and result in current flow. roofing designed to integrate with asphalt shingle roofs. I’ll also discuss several new types of insulation: a new type of rigid foam, batts made from plastic fibers, and batts made from hemp.
A coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist.
CNT is working with American Water Works Association, the Alliance for Water Efficiency, and the Great Lakes Commission to survey the water-loss control policies of a select number of utilities within the eight Great Lakes. The information will be used to help shape our Water Service Innovation work, which is focused on performance-based investment in water services and infrastructure.
Preliminary research demonstrates a lack of regulation and accountability regarding water-loss control and its associated, subsequent economic and social costs. Gaining a better understanding of how the Great Lakes states are handling this issue is critical for the long-term protection and stewardship of this important natural resource.
CNT will use data from the utility survey to help inform a forthcoming publication that highlights the cost to society of not appropriately investing in our water services. Although nationally relevant, the survey will be based on research undertaken primarily within the Great Lakes states. Following this publication, the Water program plans to work with a select number of utilities to make voluntary improvements in water-loss control.
To get your community involved in this area of work, or to find out more about it, please contact Harriet Festing, hfesting@cnt.org.
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
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http://www.cnt.org/news/2012/02/02/helping-utilities-cut-leakage-rates/
A disturbing look at the unremarkably horrid life of an industrial pig.
New high-resolution views of Earth, humanity's only home for the time being.
Photo by Steven Vance - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbondsv/
If the House Ways and Means Committee’s proposed transportation bill passes tomorrow as currently drafted, it stands to fundamentally alter transportation policy as we know it and roll back mass transit funding by 30 years.
This unprecedented move kicks transit funding out of the Highway Trust Fund and into the annual appropriations process, which means that every year transit will have to compete against all federal domestic spending. Meanwhile, funding for highways would go back to having all the user fee funding— as it was until the Reagan Administration, despite clear evidence over decades of transit’s contribution to congestion relief, clean air, among other benefits.
This isn’t just bean counters putting money in different pots. The Chicago region, for example, could lose nearly $1.2 billion over the next five years if the legislation passes as currently written.
The Ways and Means Committee will mark up their portions of the reauthorization bill on February 3rd at 9 am EST. Please take 2 minutes to call the committee office (202.225.3625) and voice your opposition to getting rid of transit funding. Make it known that you want the House leadership to craft a funding proposal that maintains the nation’s historic commitment to public transportation.
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
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http://www.cnt.org/news/2012/02/02/house-ways-means-committee-to-kick-transit-fu...
More Nobelists convey their views of the evidence that humans are exerting a growing, and troubling, influence on the global climate.
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