by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 16, 2015 | For Landowners, Pipelines
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (Atlantic) has adopted a route variation for the planned interstate natural gas transmission pipeline in Nelson and Buckingham counties to avoid a historically significant area that contains historic sites and buildings and may contain...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 15, 2015 | Compressor Stations, Fracking, Pipelines
Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany David Carpenter, who participated as a researcher in the DEC’s fracking study, calls compressor stations among the worst of all the fracking infrastructure. Carpenter notes a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 14, 2015 | Events, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Saturday July 18 3:30–9:30 p.m. Devil’s Backbone Brewery Music for the Mountains Tickets now available – $25, with kids under 12 free. Come join neighbors from across the Commonwealth to enjoy Music for the Mountains, raising funds to fight the Atlantic Coast...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 14, 2015 | Events, Spiritual Ecology, Sustainability
Sunday July 19 1:45 pm Sivananda Hall, Yogaville Prayer Meeting: NO Pipeline! YES! to a sustainable, healthy, beautiful, wholesome world.
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 14, 2015 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Events
Tuesday July 21, 10 am Buckingham Compressor Station Seminar Friends of Buckingham has been invited by the United Baptist Association of Central Virginia to give this seminar. Yogaville Environmental Solutions [YES], and Chesapeake Climate Action Network [CCAN], are...
by Janardhana Clemons | Jul 12, 2015 | Permacuture
Geoff Lawton on greening desert land in...
by Janardhana Clemons | Jul 4, 2015 | Solar
Dutch students have developed a new family car that is not only powered by the sun, but generates more energy than it uses. Stella Lux seats up to four people and is designed to be efficient, intelligent and comfortable. It will compete in the World Solar Challenge in...
by Kenda Hanuman | Jul 3, 2015 | Climate Change, Fossil Fuels
Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment has quickly made him one of the world’s most significant figures in the climate debate. His message was notable not just for its acceptance of mainstream climate science but also for its outright rejection of market logic....
by Kenda Hanuman | Jul 3, 2015 | Climate Change
Read the heir to throne’s ‘Rewiring the economy’ speech in full, in which he addresses the challenges of climate change, sustainable development and economic reform Source: Prince Charles: To limit climate change we will need to see profound changes | Environment |...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 27, 2015 | Fossil Fuels
In recent years Americans have been hearing that the United States is poised to regain its role as the world’s premier oil and natural gas producer, thanks to the widespread use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). This “shale revolution,”...
by Bob Day | Jun 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Clean energy like solar and wind have grown in popularity over the past 15 years, but detailed analysis of how and why this has happened or failed to happen has largely been a matter of conjecture. Read More… Source: Report Examines Post-Millennium Clean Energy...
by Bob Day | Jun 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Source: CESA Resource Library | Clean Energy States Alliance Resource Library
by Bob Day | Jun 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Source: A clear matter of rights | The Suffolk News-Herald A good argument and background on the governing principles of property rights and their importance in a democracy.
by Bob Day | Jun 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dominion monthly report to FERC 062015 nothing too much new here, most interesting part is contact addresses for NC senators and misc others
by Bob Day | Jun 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Republican’s reaction to Pope Francis’s climate encyclical suggest climate and energy are powerfully disrupting the grid-lock dominating American politics Source: How Pope Francis’s Climate Encyclical Is Disrupting American Politics
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 22, 2015 | Climate Change
For an earnest young Christian named Ben Lowe, revelation came on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Africa. A relentless warming of the lake was reducing the catch of fish, the people were going hungry — and he had learned of scientific evidence that climate change...
by Bob Day | Jun 20, 2015 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
Source: “Spatial Analysis of Potential Risk Factors Associated with Addition of Atlantic Coast Pipeline Through Virginia” | Incite
by Bob Day | Jun 19, 2015 | Renewables, Solar
The online retailer will use the electricity it produces to fuel its northern Virginia data centers. Source: Amazon to build VA’s largest solar farm | Construction Dive another article related to Amazon fulfilling it’s promise to be 100% renewable...
by Bob Day | Jun 19, 2015 | Renewables, Solar
Amazon signed a deal to purchase electricity from a solar project being built in Accomack. Source: Amazon seals Accomack solar power deal Amazon seals Accomack solar power deal Carol Vaughn, DelmarvaNow 3:17 p.m. EDT June 17, 2015 A large solar energy project already...
by Bob Day | Jun 19, 2015 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
FERC procedural trifold
by Bob Day | Jun 18, 2015 | Climate Change
Source: THE BALLAD OF POPE FRANCIS nice little song, with lot’s of good reference material
by Bob Day | Jun 18, 2015 | Climate Change
Pope Francis has blamed human selfishness for global warming in his long-awaited encyclical calling for action on climate change. Source: Pope Francis blames ‘human selfishness’ for global warming – BBC News
by Bob Day | Jun 17, 2015 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
Are the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia and our local, state and federal legislators getting all the facts regarding Dominion’s claims for their proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)? Here are some basic facts: • Dominion has stated that the ACP is only a...
by Bob Day | Jun 11, 2015 | Renewables
A poll by the National Resources Defense Council shows 88% of Virginians want the state to use more wind and solar power, and the federal government has Source: Offshore Wind Power: New Technologies | WVTF The last of a three part series, this produces even more...
by Bob Day | Jun 10, 2015 | Renewables
Dominion Virginia Power has leased land offshore for a wind park, but it’s not clear when construction might begin. The company says a demonstration Source: Offshore Wind Power: No Promises for VA’s Coast | WVTF More details about Dominion dragging it’s...
by Bob Day | Jun 9, 2015 | Renewables
This year, the federal government said it would give nearly $47 million to each of three states hoping to develop offshore wind power – Virginia, New Source: Offshore Wind Power: From Denmark to Virginia | WVTF
by Bob Day | Jun 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Conservation
China’s greenhouse gas emissions could start to decline within 10 years, says a London School of Economics report. Source: China greenhouse gases: Progress is made, report says – BBC News Funny isn’t it? The whole world is moving toward renewables...
by Bob Day | Jun 6, 2015 | Climate Change, Renewables, Solar
Walmart’s solar power initiative will total more than 130 stores by the end of 2013; Adds hundreds of jobs through partnership with California-based SolarCity WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 21 – Source: Walmart To Generate Solar Energy At More Than 75 Percent Of Its...
by Bob Day | Jun 1, 2015 | Conservation
Source: Breaking Ground, Breaking Hearts | Appalachian Chronicle
by Bob Day | Jun 1, 2015 | Renewables
Saphonian bladeless turbine boasts impressive efficiency, low cost A new bladeless wind turbine created is based upon the shape of a ship’s sails and promises to offer up to double the efficiency of a typical wind turbine. Source: Saphonian bladeless turbine boasts...
