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SollSussman · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:43 am Post subject: Green House in Boerne, Texas

First LEED Platinum House in Kendall County open for tours Aug. 1 – 9, 2009

Admission $5.00; project to benefit Cibolo Nature Center
Visitors can learn the inner-workings of green home in Tapatio Springs

(Boerne, TX) 7-20-09…With a summer of record-breaking heat and water restrictions in effect, more and more homeowners are considering going green for the sake of energy-savings and water conservation. But some may wonder what products and technologies on the market are best suited for their projects and our region. To help shed light on best practices of building green, the homeowners of the Sustainable Concept House, Griz & Karen Adams, will open up their doors to the public for a one-week open house event August 1 – 9, 2009.

Open house days / time are as follows:

Saturday and Sunday, August 1 - 2: 10 am — 6 pm

Monday through Friday, August 3 - 7: noon — 6 pm

Saturday and Sunday, August 8 - 9: 10 am — 6 pm

More information is available at:

www.boernegreenhouse.com

http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/Sustainable_Concept_House.

planeta · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:03 am Post subject: ABC

Starving for Gas
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2681760.htm

planeta · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:07 pm Post subject: Clean Energy Summit

The 2009 National Clean Energy Summit brings together high-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, will gather in Nevada for a day-long summit.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/americanprogressaction/sets/72157622005401876/

http://cleanenergysummit.org

http://cleanenergysummit.org/2009.html

planeta · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:13 pm Post subject: Europe

Towards a low carbon future: European Strategic Energy Technology Plan
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/493&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/energy/european_energy_policy/l27069_en.htm

http://europa.eu

planeta · Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:34 am Post subject: Solar thermal electricity

Solar thermal electricity
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2703531.htm

Sarah Castor-Perry presents an update on research into solar thermal electricity. Colin Duck describes a demonstration plant at the Liddell Power Station in NSW. Rows of mirrors concentrate heat from the sun which turns water to steam in a central tube. This steam then drives turbines producing electricity.

SollSussman

New York Times
October 20, 2009 , 10:04 am
Two States, Two Paths to Clean Energy
By Kate Galbraith

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/two-states-two-paths-to-clean-energy/

Things are quite different in Texas. In 2006, that state‚Äôs land commissioner, Jerry Patterson, talked to me about the wind boom in Texas ‚Äî and the fate of migratory birds in the Gulf of Mexico, where Texas has long (and thus far unsuccessfully) sought to put offshore turbines.

‚ÄúThere are going to be some seagulls popped,‚Äù Mr. Patterson acknowledged. He then added, ‚ÄúAfter several generations, we‚Äôll have smarter birds.‚Äù

Mr. Patterson was joking ‚Äî mostly. In California, however, such jokes would likely fall flat.

planeta · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:58 am Post subject: Mexico-Belize

Comision Federal de Electricidad, CFE, has advised Belize Electricity Limited that it is cancelling the guaranteed power supply contract (Firm Contract) with BEL, due to circumstances that are beyond its control. This contract was to expire in December of next year.
http://ambergrisdaily.com/belize-news/cfe-pulls-the-plug-on-bel