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The Journey - Tony and the Roundhouse

Welcome to The Roundhouse, it is an ecohome of wood frame, cobwood and recycled window walls, with a straw-insulated turf roof. The roundhouse was built with sustainable strategies whilst minimizing...

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The Journey - The Park

Started in 1962, The Park is a 30-acre site that was once a caravan park (part of it still is!) but now is the hub of a growing ecovillage and spiritual community. Park is a work in progress, as each...

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Weekly Mulch: Want to Combat Climate Change? Ignore Congress.

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Congress comes back into session next week, but environmentalists and climate change activists have given up on the legislature. Instead, activists are...

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GE Makes Moves Into Ontario Solar Market With New $60 Million Venture

The Ontario Green Energy Act continues to bring heavy investments into the province, the latest of which is a $60 million deal between General Electric and B.C.-based renewable power firm, Plutonic...

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Weekly Mulch: Can Clean Energy Curb Climate Change? Probably Not.

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Flickr user davipt, Creative Commons LicenseDuring the State of the Union address earlier this week, President Barack Obama spoke at length about clean...

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The iij Top 10 upcoming innovative investment books

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Natural gas: the iij Selected Innovation Briefing

Surprisingly, these influential and outspoken panellists, who you might expect would have opposing views on just about everything, seem to be having a candid, but surprisingly civil conversation about...

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Agricultural group in western Canada eyes industrial crop oils for jet-engine...

Ag-West Bio, a federally- and provincially-funded bioscience investment fund in Saskatchewan (Canada), has begun a study looking at feedstock production, processing requirements and potential...

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Tech development firm announces plans for innovation city in American west

Pegasus Global Holdings, a Washington, DC-based technology development firm, is building a full-scale town on 20-square miles of New Mexico desert in the US that it says will be an incubator and...

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British firm brings pay-as-you-go to solar sector

Eight19, a Cambridge, England-based solar firm specializing in off-grid applications, has kicked off the launch of IndiGo, a pay-as-you-go, personal solar electricity system for the developing world....

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Vineyards and wineries embrace renewables, energyefficiency to best climate...

Say what you will about climate change – and even at this late date, divergent opinions abound – for those whose livelihood is rooted in the ground and for whom terroir is everything, the debate ended...

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IEA’s Philibert discusses scenarios for the future of the global energy

Now we have to consider something else, which when you do a comparison on the basis of single technologies, you are doing something wrong because this does not take into account the volatility of...

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Artist making the invisible realities of climate change a tactile experience

Nathalie Miebach may not yet be a household name, but the Boston Massachusetts-based artist and 2011 TED Global Fellow, has already staked out a reputation as one of America’s most original-thinking...

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US wind: R&D crucial as competition cranks up

The future of the federal production tax credit (PTC) hangs in the balance, but analysts say major players with the right level of research and development are well-placed to compete in US’...

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Despite Europe's economic woes, hunger for renewables project investment remains

How was it that in the worst possible days for the continent’s banks and financial infrastructure, dreamers could still dream big and have a reasonable expectation that their wind farm, solar facility...

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Policy needs to be 'loud, long and legal' to support renewable investment

Shot through these principles -- originally codified in March 2011 by the Low Carbon Finance Group, a body of the leading capital providers that provides input to government and regulatory bodies on...

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Advocates for Renewables Need to Change Their Messaging, BNEF Founder Says

http://bit.ly/HZsotu Before Michael Liebreich established New Energy Finance in 2004, those who were deeply interested in renewable energy were essentially typecast into two distinct folds -- either...

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Will the Higgs boson change the pursuit of a renewables-based future?

The big news out of the CERN research center near Geneva broke on the Fourth of July -- on what we Americans celebrate as Independence Day -- and as the headlines streamed across the Internet...

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Stantec's Kendrick pens chapter on sustainable#wind farm development in...

For most, development of a wind farm would seem the height of sustainability itself. By implication its creation will lead to at least to a reduction of dependence of fossil-fuel generation. Stantec...

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At Harvard, information is the #infrastructure facility that will optimize...

The Zofnass Program, Georgoulias explained, was founded in 2008 by siblings Paul and June Zofnass, with the aim of developing and disseminating methods that effect and quantify sustainability for...

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