Off the Grid Book is Off the Mark
Periodically I am mailed books for review, such as Rachel Maddow's well researched recent bestseller, Drift, or the excellent Beaver Manifesto, which analyzes the vital role played by that keystone...
View ArticleMartian Microbes, Wind Energy & the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Link Party
Ecolocalizer is a member of an interconnected blog cooperative known as Important Media, a community of websites dedicated to news that matters. Each week we highlight a list of featured articles from...
View ArticleEnbridge Knew Tar Sands Pipeline was Damaged 5 Years Before Michigan Oil Spill
Two years ago the worst onshore oil spill in United States history was caused in Michigan by a Canadian company named Enbridge. Over one million gallons of tar sands crude spewed out of a ruptured...
View ArticleEnergy Secretary Steven Chu will Not Deny Love Affair with Solar Panel
"I just want everyone to know that my decision not to serve a second term as Energy Secretary has absolutely nothing to do with the allegations made in this week’s edition of the Onion. While I’m not...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Crumbling San Onofre Nuclear Plant Finally Closes for Good
In a huge victory for both clean energy and environmental advocates, the Edison Power Company announced on Friday that its troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant will be permanently shuttered The post...
View ArticleSiemens’ New Wind Turbine Commercial is Pretty Badass (video)
Siemens’ latest commercial for their extreme wind turbine program combines dramatic, computer-generated camera angles, swooping visuals, and an epic soundtrack that might be more appropriate for a...
View ArticleLiquid Metal Batteries Promise to Transform the Grid
MIT Professor of Materials and Chemistry Donald R. Sadoway believes that a massive shift in the world of energy is coming, and it’s not a new, massive grid. Instead, Sadoway believes that sustainable...
View ArticleSay Goodbye to Nuclear Power
It's the end of the world as we know it, but that is not a bad thing. This is the dawn of a new era in which the planet's residents finally realize that nuclear energy was a really bad idea. The...
View ArticleSwitzerland Abandons Nuclear Power
The Swiss government just voted on Wednesday to abandon nuclear power in their country; their last reactor will finally go offline in 2034. The nation's five remaining nuclear power plants will slowly...
View ArticleSolar Startup Scores a Cool $737 Million for Thermal Energy
Talk about landing the Holy Grail of solar power. Santa Monica startup SolarReserve locked in $737 million in guaranteed loans from the U.S. Department of Energy last Thursday for its highly innovative...
View ArticleBanktransferlujah!! Money Transfer Action Day!
This Saturday thousands of people around the country are transferring their money from large corporate banks, into small financial institutions, community-oriented cooperatives and credit unions. We've...
View ArticleSouth Korea to Build Largest Offshore Wind Farm (in World)
South Korea is a definite cleantech leader. Its cleantech investments per GDP are many, many times more than the US', or any other country's I'm aware of. Check out the graphics below on percentage of...
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