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Happy World Environment Day

June 5, 2010

05th of June is the day we celebrate the environment. The date marked the beginning of the first UN conference on human environment, which took place between 05 and 16 June 1972. Here at Energy Refuge we celebrate the environmental all year round, writing about related issues while keeping the main focus on renewable energy. [...]

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Switching to renewable energy

May 15, 2010

This week I read a brilliant interview with Mark Jacobson (pictured, left) on the Financial Times’ Energy Source blog. Jacobson is a Stanford professor of engineering who is a strong proponent of the idea that the world could move to 100 per cent renewable power, which is music to our ears. (for more details about [...]

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California launches renewable energy web tools

April 27, 2010

In order to coincide with Earth Day, celebrated globally on April 22, the California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO) opened access to information about how green the grid is via two web-based tools. The tools “make clean, green energy production transparent on an hourly and daily basis”, says California ISO. Technorati Tags: California, California Independent [...]

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Renewable energy executives call for action from Congress

March 12, 2010

Representatives of various renewable energy sectors have recently called on Congress to “swiftly enact key policies to continue accelerated growth across the entire sector in order to add jobs and boost economic growth in 2010”. During a press event last week, executives stressed that if these policies are not enacted, the renewable energy sector could [...]

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New report gives us the big picture on renewable energy

September 17, 2009

Research and Markets, the market research specialist, has put together a report about renewable energy in which it claims that “eventually renewable energies will dominate the world’s energy supply system. There is no real alternative. Mankind cannot indefinitely continue to base its life on the consumption of finite energy resources.” Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Energy, [...]

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