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The Solar Village is the first community in the world to produce 4x more energy than it uses | Minds
After architect, Rolf Disch, built the Heliotrope (the first building in the world to capture more energy than it uses) he set his sights higher. He successfully created a retail, commercial and residential space called Sonnenschiff, translating to "Solar Ship," that...
Charlottesville Company Reaches Milestone for Renewable Energy T – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather
Image Courtesy Columbia Power Charlottesville-based Columbia Power just returned from an international conference in Scotland, where it was awarded one of the only statements of feasibility for wave power technology. Source: Charlottesville Company Reaches Milestone...
Charlottesville Company Developing Tech to Harness Wave Energy – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather
Ten years after its founding in Charlottesville, Columbia Power has completed initial engineering and testing for the largest and most powerful wave energy converter in the nation. Source: Charlottesville Company Developing Tech to Harness Wave Energy - NBC29 WVIR...
McAuliffe Announces Plan to Stimulate Growth of Renewable Energ – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather
Governor Terry McAuliffe announces that the Commonwealth’s agencies will increase the use of renewable energy to power the state’s operations. Source: McAuliffe Announces Plan to Stimulate Growth of Renewable Energ - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and...
Windstalk concept is a wind farm without the turbines
The Windstalk concept proposes an array of poles containing piezoelectric ceramic discs that generate power from the movement of the poles swaying in the wind. Source: Windstalk concept is a wind farm without the turbines
UVA Researchers Receive Grant for Wind Turbines
Researchers at the University of Virginia have received a grant that will allow them to develop large wind turbines to generate power. Source: UVA Researchers Receive Grant for Wind Turbines
Leonardo DiCaprio: Ready for 100%
Achieving 100 percent renewable energy is becoming "the new normal" in the fight to solve climate change. At the Climate Summit for Local Leaders at COP21 Source: Leonardo DiCaprio: Ready for 100%
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COP21: 10 THINGS THE NEGOTIATORS NEED TO KNOW Source: Presentation title to go here - 2015-11-23-COP21-10-things-the-negotiators-need-to-know.pdf
Co-ops help Va. homeowners tap the power of the sun
solar movement hitting Richmond
World Governments: Keep Fossil Fuels Underground.
2015 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, and this December world governments will meet in Paris for the biggest climate talks since 2009. Right now, commitments by world governments are falling short of where the world needs them to be. We need way...