Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere

Reduce, Adapt, Drawdown! Go Rad Now!

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Lori Barg

Are you a student, teacher, or mentor with skills to share? Do you want to solve real-world problems while working together in teams using a lot of common sense and a little money? The Champlain Maker Faire (CMF) is developing two programs to help solve real-world climate problems, RAD1and […]

Fighting Climate Change with Trees in Bennington, VT

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Evan Lawrence

As nature-based solutions to address climate change gain more and more attention, Climate Advocates Bennington 350VT has set itself the goal of planting at least 1,000 trees in and around the southwestern Vermont town this year.

“The plan was inspired by a report […]

Green Up Day Celebrates 50 Years of Success – and More to Come!

Always the first Saturday in May, Green Up Vermont rallies thousands of volunteers across the state of Vermont to get outside and clean up roadsides and waterways. It is a statewide spring-cleaning of our beautiful environment. Green Up Vermont produces Green Up Day by providing 66,000 bright green trash bags that designate this civic day-of-service. […]

Celebrating Earth Day

Happy Earth Day! Every day is Earth Day at Green Energy Times

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” From a Pogo cartoon that appeared on the first Earth Day.

George Harvey

The first Earth Day happened on April 22, 1970. It was originally viewed as […]

The United States’ Biggest Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Will Not Fund Arctic Refuge Drilling

Polar Bear in the Arctic. Image: oceantoday.noaa.gov

JPMorgan Chase, America’s biggest bank, has committed to not funding drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! The bank’s updated energy policy rules out financing for new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, including the refuge.

“The Trump administration is pulling out […]

Sustainability-oriented Investing

Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management is one of the firms that has revolutionized investing by showing what good returns sustainability-oriented investments can yield. Credit: Katja Timm (VCU CNS), FlickrCC.

Informing mainstream investment strategies, or a do-gooder niche?

EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine

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The High Cost of Icicles

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Lori Barg

Decades ago my friend Dana Meadows wrote: “…imagine the whole world with no one living in dire need. Think how it would feel to be part of a society that had taken on and solved, permanently, the problem of hunger.”1 This can relate to other issues such as […]

21 Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects Slated for NYS

Governor Cuomo Announces Details for 21 Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects

To provide clean, affordable energy for New Yorkers

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled the details of the awards for 21 large-scale solar, wind, and energy storage projects in upstate New York, with a total capacity of 1,278 megawatts (MW). These projects will […]

Energy ‘Target Fixation’

David Blittersdorf

This essay originally ran in Green Energy Times in October 2011. Not much has changed in nine years. But as I write this brief introductory paragraph in mid-March 2020, there is a massive change underway as the “Black Swan” event of COVID-19 crashes our bubble economy, forcing the shale oil and gas industry […]

The Woodlands Saves with Solar

Alice Peck Day Lifecare (APD) is powered by their new solar system. Courtesy photo from Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital.

Anonymous $500,000 Gift Funds 179kW Solar System for Alice Peck Day Lifecare

Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, Alice Peck Day (APD) Lifecare has installed a 179kW rooftop solar system at […]