Green Gov: What is your local or federal government doing to encourage better energy use?

What is, should, or could your town or state be doing to encourage better energy use? New law, tax, incentive or best practice? Spell it out for us.

Ideas answering this question

Former CIA Director James Woolsey on Refueling our Vehicles

United States Energy and Security Council

Are flex-fuel cars the future? Former CIA Director James Woolsey proposes that we "do like the Brazilians do." See why ... more ...

Adaptation, Biofuels, Efficiency, Green Living, Natural Gas, Renewable Energy
Pumping up Energy and Water Savings

Joel Scruggs

Farms use a lot of water. This program from Bonneville Power Administration helps farmers upgrade their systems to ... more ...

Agriculture, Efficiency, Water
Growing Urban Forests: The Secret to Cleaner, Cooler, City Air

American Society of Landscape Architects

From our sustainable landscape series, check out how urban forests cool and clean the air, store excess carbon, and ... more ...

Architecture, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Economics, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living, Health, Transportation, Water
Director of Environment for the Mayor of London: City Committed to Electric Vehicles

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

London Mayor Boris Johnson is “totally committed” to bringing 100,000 electric vehicles to London, his ... more ...

Climate Change, Electric Cars, GreenGov, Policy, Transportation
Proposed Federal Law Would Strengthen Controls on Toxic Chemicals, Confirm Safety for Consumers

Assignment Earth

We are exposed to hundreds of chemicals every day in household items that you might not expect to be potentially ... more ...

Activism, Business, Clean Tech, Economics, Green Communities, Green Living, GreenGov, Health, Policy, Science
CDP’s Nigel Topping: Data Drives Climate Action in Cities

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

The Carbon Disclosure Project collects and discloses greenhouse gas emissions data from thousands of organizations ... more ...

Business, Climate Change, Efficiency, GreenGov, Policy
Toronto’s Lawson Oates on Turning Waste Into Energy

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Cities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cultivate a new fuel source by managing methane emissions from landfills. ... more ...

Biofuels, Climate Change, Green Communities, GreenGov, Natural Gas, Policy
Sydney Mayor Clover Moore: Blazing a Trail in Australia

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Australia is heavily dependent on coal-fired power – “It’s cheap and easy, and to get change is very hard,” Sydney Lord ... more ...

Climate Change, Green Communities, GreenGov, Policy, Water
Jakarta’s Deputy Governor: Poverty and Climate Change Are Linked

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in Southeast Asia and one that is grappling with the impacts of climate change on ... more ...

Climate Change, International Climate Negotiations, Natural Disasters, Transportation
Hong Kong’s Environment Secretary: Climate Change Impacts “See No Boundaries”

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Climate change is more than a local problem. Cities worldwide are grappling with the consequences. In hope of ... more ...

Adaptation, Climate Change, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Communities
San Francisco’s Melanie Nutter on Getting to Zero Waste

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

“San Francisco prides itself on being one of the most sustainable cities in the U.S.,” the city’s director of the ... more ...

Climate Change, Efficiency, Electric Cars, Green Communities, Green Living, Policy
Portland Mayor Adams: Cities Learning From One Another on Climate

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

In this interview from the C40 Cities Mayor’s Summit, Portland, Ore., Mayor Sam Adams talks about the importance of ... more ...

Climate Change, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living, GreenGov, Policy
C40 Special Advisor: Data Key to Fighting Climate Change

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

The C40 Cities Climate Leadership group recently held its global Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The event hosts ... more ...

Business, Climate Change, Green Communities, GreenGov, Policy
Global Climate Change Teacher Institute

National Science Foundation

The development of the Global Climate Change Teacher Institute by Kurt Pregitzer of the Michigan Technological ... more ...

Climate Change, Education, Science
Uniting The World’s Smart Communities For A Sustainability Revolution

Woodrow W. Clark II, PhD

Dr. Woodrow Clark II, a long-time advocate for the environment and renewable energy, is an internationally recognized ... more ...

Adaptation, Health, Policy, Public Transportation, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Dark Side of Tar Sands: Threats to Wildlife, Higher Gas Prices

Miles Grant

I talk to Jeremy Symons, senior vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, about his testimony at a House ... more ...

Activism, Adaptation, Economics, Policy
Greensburg: A Model to Rebuild From Catastrophes

Max Chen

In the wake of the Joplin, Missouri tornado, Greensburg provides hope for rebuilding not just successfully, but ... more ...

Adaptation, Architecture, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Economics, Efficiency, Engineering, Geothermal, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living, Natural Disasters, Renewable Energy, Science, Solar, Wind
Developing Sustainable Biomass Supplies

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Federal efforts to support the development of sustainable biomass feedstocks and feedstock systems – such as the Biomass ... more ...

Biofuels, Education, Policy, Renewable Energy
Bike Friendly Communities

Carlee Hill

Oxford, Miss., paves the way for Bike Friendly Communities to enhance cycling as a mode of transportation.
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Activism, Biking, Green Communities, Green Living, GreenGov, Transportation
Rural Communities Rallying around Wind

Katharine Shiffler

The small town of Petersburg, Nebraska is being revitalized by new investments in wind energy in the area. New jobs are ... more ...

Agriculture, Green Communities, Wind
Sen. Alexander says Subsidies Should Include Alternative Energy

Senator Lamar Alexander

Senator Lamar Alexander caught up with Planet Forward at ARPA-E to talk about our energy future. He also talks about his ... more ...

Clean Tech, Efficiency, Electric Cars, Transportation
Senator Udall (D-CO) on Electric Vehicles as the key to our energy future.

Planet Forward

Senator Udall (D-Co) discusses electric vehicles as the key to our energy future. Senator Udall comments on the electric ... more ...

Clean Tech, Efficiency, Electric Cars
Representative Roscoe Bartlett with the first Hybrid in Congress!

Planet Forward

Republican Representative Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland was the first member of Congress to own a hybrid vehicle! Bartlett ... more ...

Clean Tech, Electric Cars, Hybrid Vehicles, Transportation
Climate Change Threatens National Security, Warn U.S. Military and GOP Veteran

Adam Enatsky

U.S. military officials and former Republican Senator John Warner warn that America’s dependence on foreign oil ... more ...

Activism, Efficiency, Green Living, Military, Science
Ethanol Isn’t Bad. It’s Just Drawn That Way.

MPGomatic

Ethanol’s gotten a bit of a bad rap here in the States of late, largely due to the billions of dollars of federal ... more ...

Agriculture, Biofuels, Policy, Transportation
Decision Theater at Arizona State University Helps Visualize Tough Climate Choices

Bradford Dworak

The Decision Theater is a hybrid decision making laboratory at Arizona State University where researchers and community ... more ...

Education, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Living
Begin the Biofuel Process On Farms to Facilitate Transportation of Fuel Components

Joanne Ivancic

Bob wants even marginal land to be productive, growing energy crops for advanced, sustainable biofuels. He wants food ... more ...

Agriculture, Biofuels, Efficiency, Green Living, Science
Host an International Algae Competition

International Algae Competition

Algae Competition objectives are to create an open source collaboratory that expands and shares a vision for algae in ... more ...

Agriculture, Algae, Architecture, Biofuels, Clean Tech, Green Living, Science
Encourage Auto Companies to Improve Multi-Fuel Engines

Joanne Ivancic

Bob has an idea and you can help. Car companies are working on engines that use things like variable timing, compression ... more ...

Biofuels, Efficiency, Transportation
Rather than blast their last mountain apart to get a few years of polluting coal, a West Virginia community proposes a wind farm which can produce clean energy forever.

"The Last Mountain"

In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that ... more ...

Activism, Business, Education, Policy, Wind
Lightworks: Cyanobacteria

Maura Gaughan

Arizona State University is a cutting edge research institution. Lightworks is a ground breaking initiative focusing on ... more ...

Biofuels, Education, Science, Solar
Algae Biofuels and Much More…

alexander pertusini

Turning algae into the next renewable resource by making it in to plastics, bio fuels, nutritional supplements as well ... more ...

Algae, Biofuels, Clean Tech, Engineering, Green Living, Science
Introducing the First LEED Platinum Certified Home in Chicago

Tom McGrath

From hospital Administrator to Green Builder…I have found my passion. Located in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood, ... more ...

Architecture, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Living, Solar
Climate Change Brings Pine Beetle Infestation to Yellowstone

Assignment Earth

A love of backcountry skiing explains David Gonzales’ obsession with white bark pines. A writer and photographer, ... more ...

Activism, Adaptation, Climate Change, Science
Create a Worldwide Climate Information Movement

OpenEI

OpenEI.org (Open Energy Information) is built on a linked, open-data platform to facilitate the exchange of renewable ... more ...

Business, Education, Efficiency, Policy, Science
New photovoltaic material could deliver twice the solar power

Matthew O'Connor

Matthew O’Connor and Justin Eure reporting for Medill News Service, Northwestern University A new solar cell ... more ...

Solar
Using Everyday Products to Generate Energy

Xolargy

The fight between Edison and Tesla continues. AC adapters or AC to DC Inverters? the idea is to have a dual-power-type ... more ...

Architecture, Efficiency, Energy Storage, Engineering, Green Living, Solar, Wind
Foster Development of "City-Only" Automobiles

L. Dean

Create a new car classification similar to current classifications for mopeds that are designed around limited engine ... more ...

Activism, Efficiency, Electric Cars, Green Communities, Green Living, Policy, Transportation
Push Detroit to Develop Interchangeable Auto Parts

al smith

The Automobile Industry Meets the 18th Century Although the idea of interchangeable parts is often credited to Eli ... more ...

Efficiency, Electric Cars, Engineering, Transportation
Make Government Funds Available to Small Investors

Shawn Smith

I have developed an innovative way to increase effective air circulation in a home, while saving up to 30% on energy ... more ...

Efficiency, Green Building, Green Living, GreenGov
Install Wireless Switches to Control Energy Consumption in Buildings

John Jaeger

Magnum Energy Solutions LLC is a wireless technology company. The Venergy Control System and building energy management ... more ...

Business, Education, Engineering, Green Building, Natural Gas
Municipal Property Tax Assessment Financing

JD Polk

I say we implement the “Berkeley First Plan” a municipal bond program. Municipal Property Tax Assessment Financing ... more ...

Activism, Green Communities, GreenGov, Policy, Science, Solar
Jim Barrett: Businesses will be responsible for green job creation

Planet Forward

In response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, Jim Barrett, Chief Economist at the Clean Economy ... more ...

Business, Economics
Encourage Businesses to Turn off Building Lights at Night

Joseph

Many business buildings leave the lights on all night ! With new automation systems the lights can be turned off ... more ...

Business, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living
Expand Rail Innovation While Limiting Truck Freighting

William McPherson

Rehabilitate railroads with dual tracks on main lines and move all long-haul freight to containers. Trucks would be ... more ...

Efficiency, Policy, Transportation
Create a More Direct Way for the White House to Spread Climate Change News

Frank Monachello

In 2011, why doesn’t the White House hire 3 thoughtful and experienced journalists to hold a joint press ... more ...

Activism, Climate Change, Education, Efficiency, Green Living, Policy
Low Cost Solar Micro Housing

JD Polk

LOW COST SOLAR POWERED MICRO HOUSING EPHOT Environmental Prototype Homes of Tomorrow BUSINESS MODEL Low cost solar ... more ...

Architecture, Clean Tech, Green Building, Solar
Real-time Monitor and Controller to Influence Energy Conservation Behavior by Impulse Saving

Moe Alahmad

Want an easy button for home energy savings? Watch tonight's segment on Nightly Business Report and join our live chat ... more ...

Architecture, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Building, Green Living
Increase Usage of Heat to Generate Non-Fossil Fuel Electricity

Dave Lundy


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Business, Clean Tech, Efficiency
Researchers Hope to Link Energy Prices to Global Climate Shifts

Climate Central

What we’ve known as “normals” for our climate during the past decade will very likely change soon. That’s because ... more ...

Education, Efficiency, GreenGov, Science
Community Engagement, Energy Efficiency, Job Creation

Sam Witherbee

WeatherizeDC is a program of The DC Project, a recently launched nonprofit that connects and empowers communities to ... more ...

Activism, Architecture, Campus Sustainability, Education, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living
Hemp Oil as a Versatile and Sustainable Construction Tool

dael

Hemp has been uses for thousands of years by mankind and until last century in the United States it was common place. ... more ...

Agriculture, Architecture, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Living
U.S. Cities Serve as Test Beds for Sustainability Initiatives

Bart Bickel

The FiveCities group from The George Washington University’s Urban Sustainability class  found that American ... more ...

Green Building, Policy, Solar, Wind
Build a Home with Ecovative Design’s Seed Husk Blocks

James R Lawrence

My wife Mimi and I are building a green energy efficient home in northern Austin County, Texas. We were planning to use ... more ...

Architecture, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Living
Cheap, Interlocking Solar Panels for Roof Construction

Ira Sorkin

I envision solar panels that would overlap and interlock to be used as roofing tiles. They would interconnect using ... more ...

Clean Tech, Green Building, Green Living, Solar
Reform Transporation Laws to Encourage Fuel Conservation

Erica David

Why is that, in politics, no-brainers are usually non-starters. (1) Lowering the interstate speed limit to 55 mph (and ... more ...

Efficiency, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation
Should Activists Turn Rock Creek, Wyoming Into Federal Wilderness?

Assignment Earth

Every fall Bob Granstrom of Buffalo Mountain Outfitters leads elk hunters into Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains. Lately he’s ... more ...

Activism, Green Living, Policy
Turning Ole Miss from a Car Hub into a Walk-Friendly Community

Molly Dyal

The City of Oxford is working to provide more options of transportation to encourage residents to not drive their cars ... more ...

Biking, Green Living, Policy, Transportation
Innovative New Ways to Recycle Household Junk

Meera Ravichandran

Since November 15th was America Recycles Day what would be more fitting than tips on recycling. Recycling is extremely ... more ...

Education, Green Living
Reversing Decades of Dumping in the Oregon Badlands

Assignment Earth

Just a 15-minute drive from Downtown Bend in Central Oregon, the Badlands offer a quiet getaway. The land is designated ... more ...

Activism, Education, Green Living
A Framework For Energy Independence via Solar Hosting Farms

Raymond Marshall

Imagine for a moment that you live in an apartment building, rent commercial space in a shopping center, lease office ... more ...

Green Communities, Solar
Want to Drive an Electric Car Incognito?

MPGomatic

Why stick out if you’d rather blend in? Electric cars don’t have to look any different from conventional ... more ...

Electric Cars, Transportation
Reducing Water Needs Through Sustainable Sandharvesting

Arthur Michael Ambrosino

High-Grade metamorphic terrains, located in thousands of places around the world with many right here in the United ... more ...

Business, Engineering, Hydroelectric, Policy
Help the Jobless by Converting Fossil Fuel Automobiles to Renewable Transportation

Robert Bear

I found this federal bureaucracy on the web. Sent them my idea that could save the morale of our citizens and reduce so ... more ...

Activism, Efficiency, Electric Cars, Green Living, Transportation
Build healthy, energy saving homes using Industrial Hemp and Lime

Hemp Technologies

Our company has built the first 3 permitted Hempcrete homes in USA and an office extension in Canada in 2010 with many ... more ...

Activism, Agriculture, Architecture, Business, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Living, Science
Mandate New Public Schools Come with Green Roofing

Joel Goldberg

The architect of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon must have been an early member of the green movement. Green roofs, an ... more ...

Architecture, Education, Green Building, Green Living, Science
Historic Preservation in Charleston, Dubuque and Grand Rapids

Planet Forward

By Harry Bergmann, Erin McCluskey, and Summer Newman For a course on urban sustainability at The George Washington ... more ...

Architecture, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Building, Green Living, Policy
Big Cities Face Major Sustainability Challenges

Planet Forward

By Brandt Siegel (presenter) Brian Griffith, Sarah Allison, and Noemi Glickman For a graduate level course on urban ... more ...

Architecture, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Building, Policy
Green Building Initiatives in US Cities

Julia Byrd

By Julia Byrd (presenter) Alana Bryant, Sarah Kururswo, Samantha McLean, Kate Young For a course on Urban Sustainability ... more ...

Green Building, Policy
Compromise at Nine-Mile Canyon

Assignment Earth

Anthropologist Pam Miller has been exploring the rock art of central Utah for more than 20 years. In an area called 9 ... more ...

Activism
Recycling the digestive cycle

Matthew Eastman

Lets make learning about the environment a less dreadful process and lets think about creative ways we can get our point ... more ...

Activism, Education, Humor
Fossil Creek Reborn

Assignment Earth

Fossil Creek is a conservation success story. This river that flows through the Mazatzal Mountains of Central Arizona ... more ...

Uncategorized
Conserve the Wilderness of The Alpine Triangle

Assignment Earth

With some of the most spectacular scenery in the United States the Alpine Triangle is 186, 000 acres of high altitude ... more ...

Activism, Green Living, Policy
Changing the world–One green rap video at a time

Lauren Hoenemeyer

Standing outside in barely a coat in December weather, my video partner Kim and I hailed cabs until hypothermia set in. ... more ...

Activism, Algae, Efficiency, Green Living, Policy
Rainwater Harvesting Tanks for GWU

Hannah Robinson

This idea calls for rainwater harvesting and recycling tanks to be put into use at George Washington University. DC ... more ...

Campus Sustainability, Efficiency
Bring Climate Innovators Into Idea-Sharing Partnerships with High Schools

Anita Davidson

My idea for the George Washington University is to create a partnership with a local high school in which they challenge ... more ...

Business, Clean Tech, Education, Green Living
Smart Energy Grids and Solar Panels on George Washington University’s Campus

Ben Topiel

Since initially thinking about smart energy grids could potentially work at GW, I researched if any other Universities ... more ...

Activism, Clean Tech, Education, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Building, Green Living, Science, Solar
Detailing Sustainable Architecture in Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver and Philadelphia

Eric


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Architecture, Clean Tech, Green Building, Transportation
Heal the Earth through Green Solutions

DPerez

The damages caused by oil spills and coal mining applications have contributed to the problems that the world is facing ... more ...

Clean Tech, Efficiency
Converting kinetic energy in college gyms around the country into usable, carbon-free energy.

Dana

When using green fitness equipment, people just have to work out in order to go green. A typical 30 minute exercise ... more ...

Clean Tech, Efficiency, Green Living
Cities in Focus: Arequipa, Peru’s Move to Pedestrian Transit

World Resources Institute

In 2009, Arequipa, Peru closed its most important commercial corridor to car traffic. The pedestrianization project is ... more ...

Green Communities, Green Living, Policy, Transportation
Water plans examined in Cleveland, Baltimore, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque

Maianna

Water issues covered in four cities’ sustainability plans. Cleveland and Baltimore are investing in sewer upgrades ... more ...

Uncategorized
Infinite driving range through battery exchange.

Douglas Simon

INFINITE RANGE THROUGH BATTERY EXCHANGE THE PROBLEM: The highly limited driving range of even the newest electric ... more ...

Electric Cars
Remanufactured Cars

Dale Bowen

Why do we have to have new car models, and lots of them every year? A lot of energy is consumed in the process of ... more ...

Transportation
The Gulf Coast of Mississippi is Building Green and Exploring Alternative Energy

Christina

The Gulf Coast of Mississippi has built government buildings such as City Hall in Gulfport that are green buildings and ... more ...

BP Oil Spill, Green Building
A Walkable Community: Making Oxford, MS, become more sustainable without fossil fuels

John P

The sustainable conference Oxford held discussed many ways to change the land use in our community. These ways will make ... more ...

Transportation
Highlights from Sec. Chu’s “Sputnik” Speech

Planet Forward

At a National Press Club luncheon, Energy Secretary Steven Chu expressed his concern for the United States as it is ... more ...

Business, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Engineering, Science
Sec. Chu – Is the Energy Race our New “Sputnik” Moment?

Planet Forward

Energy Secretary Steven Chu told the National Press Club that time may be running out for the United States to lead in ... more ...

Agriculture, Biofuels, Business, Clean Tech, Education, Efficiency, Electric Cars, Engineering, GreenGov, Nuclear, Policy, Science, Solar
District heating and cooling from Denmark Part 3 of 3 “Just imagine”

Jes B. Christensen

With over 60% of Danish buildings receiving heating and hot water via District Heating (80% of which comes from surplus ... more ...

Business, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Building, Green Living, Policy
Climate Change Threatens to Melt the American Pika Out of its Habitat

Assignment Earth

You often hear them before you see them. The American Pika is related to rabbits and hares. But they have round ears and ... more ...

Activism, Green Living, Policy, Science
DC SmarTrip: Rent a Bike, Ride the Metro, and Catch a Bus with ONE Card!

World Resources Institute

In 2008, Clear Channel Outdoor and the District Department of Transportation launched SmartBike DC, the first ... more ...

Activism, Biking, Clean Tech, Green Communities, Green Living, Public Transportation, Transportation
Cities in Focus: Istanbul

World Resources Institute

Istanbul has the only intercontinental bus rapid-transit system in the world. With 64 million vehicles crossing it in ... more ...

Activism, Green Communities, Green Living, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation
A Hybrid Electric Vehicle for under $1400!!!

Dale Bowen

I have always been an above average Do-It-Yourselfer….I even built an Electric Motorcycle way back in ’73. ... more ...

Biking, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Electric Cars, Hybrid Vehicles, Transportation
MycoBond: growing the future of sustainable materials

ecovative

An innovative way to make and dispose of packaging: grow it and throw it back into your garden. This company is trying ... more ...

Agriculture, Architecture, Business, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Living, Science, Transportation
Making Public Transportation Cool: Los Angeles Metro

World Resources Institute

This video is produced by EMBARQ – The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport. Los Angeles’ ... more ...

Green Living, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation
McCurdy Weighs in on Energy after the Election (Part 1)

Planet Forward

Tuesday's landslide victory for the Republicans could mean a significant change for the future of energy policy. Planet ... more ...

Electric Cars, Policy, Science
The Navy can utilize hydrogen generators to save on fuel costs

Tom Darter

Accept the viability that a Hydrogen Generator System is an answer to provide the Navy the ability to realize actual ... more ...

Business, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Engineering, Military, Transportation
Support combined heat and power projects that leverage district energy to sum the production of both thermal and electrical energy from central plants and double the efficiency of fuel use.

IDEA

District Energy is a proven technology that has been heating our colleges and universities, hospitals, research ... more ...

Architecture, Efficiency, GreenGov, Science
New Technology for Sailboats

Dale Bowen

Sailboats have been around forever, even when man thought the Earth was flat…So its time to update this Old ... more ...

Clean Tech, Efficiency, Transportation, Wind
Cong. Baird gets real about real estate

Planet Forward

About 40% of the energy consumption in the U.S. comes from buildings.  Congressman Baird has a simple idea that could ... more ...

Green Living, GreenGov, Policy
What is District Energy?

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

How does district energy improve energy efficiency for communities and allow for more opportunities to use renewable ... more ...

Efficiency, Geothermal, Green Living
White House GreenGov Opening Plenary

Planet Forward

Catch Secretary Steven Chu’s solar panel announcement and his presentation at the White House’s GreenGov ... more ...

Biomimicry, Clean Tech, Efficiency, GreenGov, Policy, Science
Planet Forward LIVE at the White House’s GreenGov Symposium

Planet Forward

Planet Forward was proud to play a part in the White House’s GreenGov Symposium, held at The George Washington ... more ...

Architecture, Business, Efficiency, Electric Cars, GreenGov, Policy, Solar, Transportation
The Electric Vehicle Movement Needs You

Zachary Heir

Live Chat TODAY at 12pm EST! We talk to organizers of Project Get Ready and examine - what will this idea cost? ... more ...

Activism, Clean Tech, Electric Cars, Green Communities
FEMA’s Role in Advancing Sustainable, Affordable Housing Options

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Experts speaking on Capitol Hill about the state of post-disaster, interim housing provided by the Federal Emergency ... more ...

Architecture, Policy
Can Oil Production Meet Rising Global Demand?

Planet Forward

Experts speaking on Capitol Hill about on challenges facing the oil industry to keep pace with rising global demand, and ... more ...

Policy
Strutting their Sustainability Stuff at the White House’s GreenGov Symposium (Webisode 214)

Planet Forward

Planet Forward hosted a LIVE event during the White House’s GreenGov Symposium, a conference focused on making all ... more ...

Efficiency, Green Living, GreenGov
Business Forward Economic Competitiveness Briefing with Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu

Brad Jenkins

Roundtable on Clean Energy and Economic Competitiveness – U.S. Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu joins Business ... more ...

Business, Clean Tech, Policy
Sandia National Laboratories: Getting around on Solar Golf Carts

Matthew Jude Brito


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Clean Tech, Electric Cars, GreenGov, Science, Transportation
Secretary Chu Announces Solar Panels on White House at GreenGov Symposium

Planet Forward

At the GreenGov Symposium, hosted by The George Washington University, Secretary Chu announces the installation of solar ... more ...

GreenGov, Policy, Solar
BPA Goes All Out – Green roofs, Hybrid lifts, e-waste, sustainability education, and more

Darby Collins

Submitted for the 2010 GreenGov Presidential Awards by Bonneville Power Administration.
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Efficiency, GreenGov, Hydroelectric, Wind
Lighten Your Load – The Forest Service Tells You Where to Throw that Old Phone

Maritza Huerta

Lighten Your Load Events: Forest Service employees were asked to unplug and properly surplus unused government equipment ... more ...

Efficiency, GreenGov
National Archives Shows Off Their Sustainability Innovations at GreenGov

Christine Scarborough


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Architecture, GreenGov
Idaho National Labs GreenGov Submission – Fleet Sustainability

John Howze


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GreenGov, Science, Transportation
Clean Energy Entrepreneurship

Planet Forward

From the White House’s GreenGov Symposium, The George Washington University. October 6th, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
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Business, GreenGov
My View from the White House’s GreenGov Symposium

Brian Skiscim


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GreenGov
Splitting Main Street – The Nuclear Energy Debate

Luca Semprini

Is nuclear back? As billions are being invested in two new reactor projects, students at the University of North ... more ...

Activism, Nuclear
The people of Venice La. face a difficult choice in the aftermath of the BP Oil Spill.

Luca Semprini

Venice, La., is facing extinction. The small fishing community, located just 50 miles away from the Deepwater Horizon ... more ...

Activism, BP Oil Spill
Let’s Talk About Geoengineering

John Eaton

A very thought-provoking article…we wring our hands and (sometimes) open our wallets to make small changes that ... more ...

Efficiency
The White House, GreenGov, and YOU

Planet Forward

The White House is hosting it’s first GreenGov Symposium at the George Washington University. Be a part of it! ... more ...

Activism, GreenGov
NSF Recycling Program

Adam D. Silverman

Introduction to the National Science Foundation (NSF) recycling and reuse program by Adam Silverman, Senior ... more ...

Efficiency, GreenGov
GSA Carbon Footprint and Green Procurement Tool

Jennifer Hazelman

As one of the finalists for the 2010 GreenGov Presidential Awards, here is our video that we would like submit. This ... more ...

Efficiency, GreenGov
Cen-Tex Sustainable Communties Partnership

Christine Luciano

In April 2009, The Cen-Tex Sustainability Communities Partnership was created when Fort Hood signed a memorandum of ... more ...

Green Communities, GreenGov, Military
How We Can Tap Renewable Thermal Energy and Waste Heat

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Experts speaking on Capitol Hill about how district energy systems can tap into local renewable thermal resources and ... more ...

Efficiency
On-Farm Energy

Kurt Michael Friese

Iowa’s next Secretary of Agriculture Francis Thicke explains his vision for independent energy for Iowa farms
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Agriculture, Biofuels, GreenGov, Wind
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Showcase

NREL


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Efficiency, GreenGov, Solar, Wind
Scowcroft Building, Ogden, Utah

Beth L. Savage

Rehabilitation of 1906 brick warehouse by the U.S. General Services Administration. This is Utah’s first ... more ...

Architecture, Efficiency, GreenGov
Promote Democratic Principles in Developing Climate Solutions

THOMAS DAVID CANADA

Long-term planning with many participants is difficult to achieve. This is not only due to the unpredictability of the ... more ...

Activism, Policy, Science
Clean Legislation Creates Clean Energy

David Raish

Due to a bill passed in the fall of 2009 by the Oregon State Legislature, field burning in 2010 has been outlawed. This ... more ...

Green Communities, GreenGov
Afghanistan Invests in Alternative Energy Sources

Assignment Earth

It’s a green energy dream. The sun shines all day and the wind blows constantly. But alternative energy is the last ... more ...

Efficiency, Solar, Wind
The Threatened Colorado River

Assignment Earth

The Colorado River and its tributaries sustain nearly 30 million people across seven states and Mexico. It is the most ... more ...

Activism, Agriculture, GreenGov
Unobtrusive River Water Power

george whitney

Utilize the current of moving water to generate electricity. By placing water powered electric generators in the main ... more ...

Efficiency, Engineering, Hydroelectric
Improve Alternative Energy Building Codes

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Experts speaking on Capitol Hill about the value of energy efficient housing, and how federal policy can promote more ... more ...

Architecture, Business, Efficiency, Policy
Rep. Brian Baird on energy efficient housing

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) speaking about how we can make housing more energy efficient. Filmed at a July 27, 2010 event ... more ...

Engineering
Energy Innovation in Our Nation’s Defense

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, USN (Ret.), Brigadier General Gerald E. Galloway, ASA (Ret.) and other experts speaking at a ... more ...

Clean Tech, Military, Policy, Science
Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, U.S. Navy (Ret.) on energy and security

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

How does our dependence on fossil fuels threaten security? How can the Department of Defense drive the transition to ... more ...

Military
Animal House (& Senate): Watch NWF’s Climate Capsule

Miles Grant

What can spider monkeys, peacocks, ostriches & sheep tell us about global warming & the climate debate on ... more ...

Activism, Business, Efficiency, Policy
Is oil independence possible and how can we achieve it?

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Experts spoke at a July 22, 2010 event on Capitol Hill on petroleum and potential strategies to reduce U.S. oil use. ... more ...

Efficiency, Transportation
Red Rock Canyon NCA

James Edward Mills

Las Vegas Nevada is a lavish playground with casinos, bright lights and entertainment in the middle of the Mojave ... more ...

Activism
What do Americans think about energy and climate change?

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Public polling experts Jon Krosnick and Mark Cooper speaking at a June 10, 2010 event on Capitol Hill. Have ... more ...

Efficiency, Engineering
Electric Transmission 203: Planning to Expand and Upgrade the Grid

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Electric transmission experts speaking at a Capitol Hill event on June 28, 2010. What is the current planning process ... more ...

Efficiency, Engineering, Policy
Bike For The Gulf with Malik Rahim

FluxRostrum

http://www.BikeForTheGulf.org LINK WORKS NOW Former Black Panther and founder of Common Ground Collective in post ... more ...

Activism, Biking, BP Oil Spill, Business
New Zealand

Frank Sesno

Down under they’re moving way up. At least in the climate department. The world knows the best way to curb carbon ... more ...

Activism
An Oil Disaster Update & A New Big Oil All-Star: NWF’s Climate Capsule, June 29

Miles Grant

An oil disaster update from Louisiana, a new Big Oil All-Star & I get red-carded – watch the National Wildlife ... more ...

Activism
The Everglades: When water runs through it

James Edward Mills

For millennia, water has spread across the broad expanse of the Florida Everglades. But in the last 100 years or so man ... more ...

Activism
Renewable Biogas: Too Valuable to Waste

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

A Congressional briefing on capturing and using renewable biogas from urban and agricultural waste streams to help ... more ...

Agriculture, Efficiency
DC to NOLA BP Protest Road Trip

FluxRostrum

The waste veggie oil powered NOmadjik Media Bus heads to New Orleans stopping at BP stations along the way for some free ... more ...

Activism, Biofuels, Transportation
Have Americans’ Views on Global Warming Changed? A New Look at Public Opinion

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

A Congressional briefing on he public health implications associated with different energy sources and technologies, ... more ...

Efficiency
Would you give BP 300 million now??

Steve Austin

BP has coated many sea birds with disgusting oil. They are also in line for Federal Fast Track money for the below wind ... more ...

Activism
The Health Costs of Energy

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Environmental health experts speaking at a May 24, 2010 event on Capitol Hill. Are coal and oil really as cheap as we ... more ...

Activism, Health
Alaskan Natives Witness Gulf Oil Damage

James Edward Mills

A group of tribal leaders from Alaska tour the Gulf spill area and ponder what might happen to their homelands if ... more ...

Activism, Oceans, Water
13th Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Expo + Forum

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Members of Congress speaking about renewable energy and energy efficiency at a May 27, 2010 event on Capitol Hill. More ... more ...

Activism, Efficiency
The climate generation: youth activists pressure politicians to put a stop to climate change

Tracy Boyer

For many youth, a warming world is more than an abstract threat. Within the lifetimes of today’s young adults and ... more ...

Activism
NWF Team to Gulf & BP’s Campaign Cash: Watch NWF’s Climate Capsule, May 25

Miles Grant

In this week’s NWF Climate Capsule video, lessons we didn’t learn from the Exxon Valdez, NWF’s call to ... more ...

Activism
Report from Surface of BP Oil Spill

Miles Grant

National Wildlife Federation’s Miles Grant experiences first hand the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Activism
Protecting Montana’s Wild Legacy-Carnivores

James Edward Mills

With government support, a huge land purchase by conservationists protects prime habitat for grizzlies, mountain lions ... more ...

Activism
Feds Have Given 27 Waivers for Gulf Drilling Since the BP Spill

Thomas Nephew

You would think that after an environmental catastrophe on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, the federal ... more ...

Activism, BP Oil Spill
气温持续升高，地球将会怎样(What will happen if temperature keep rising)

Scott Lee

I’m a Chinese student .I have translated a Chinese author‘s article into English.I’m not good at English.I ... more ...

Activism
Oil and Money

Steve Graziano

There is a peculiar relationship with oil here in Louisiana. The state makes money from fees, royalties and taxes paid ... more ...

Activism
Oil Spill blessing in disguise for Obama?

Pamposh Raina

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has set the alarm bells ringing. President Obama called it an “unprecedented environmental ... more ...

BP Oil Spill, Policy
Pushing the Politics of Possibility

Ethan Nuss

is Earth Day I was torn between excitement and disappointment. With thousands of people convening at the World ... more ...

Activism, Policy
Can the D.C. Bag Tax Be A National Model?

Kate Galliers

The D.C. Bag Tax went into effect on January 1, 2010 with a portion of all revenues going to the Anacostia River ... more ...

Activism, Green Living, GreenGov
The politics of climate

Ryder Haske

A behind the scenes look into the work of Jan Mueller, Senior Policy Associate for The Environmental and Energy Study ... more ...

Policy
Vote to help rural Maine school get solar panels!

Climate Action Club

Hello! My name is Chloe Maxmin from the Climate Action Club. We are a student-run at Lincoln Academy in Maine. We have ... more ...

Activism, Solar
Haiti: Out of the Wood, Into the Sun?

Chad Davis

If Jack Bauer started an NGO devoted to climate change, it would probably be called the Carbon War Room (CWR). The ... more ...

Policy, Solar
The Story of Cap & Trade

Cliff Travis

Annie Leonard, the host of “The Story of Stuff” just completed a video to educate people in a VERY ... more ...

Activism, Policy
Clean Air Council’s innovative anti-idling project, IdleFreePhilly.org

Kate Zaidan

In an effort to reduce the harmful emissions and wasted fuel from idling trucks and buses, Clean Air Council has ... more ...

Efficiency, Green Communities, Policy, Transportation
Wall Street Journal: “Spoils will go to those who exploit the uncertainty the best.”

Global Opinion

Cross-posted from the Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital By JEFFREY BALL One thing is ... more ...

Policy
Solar Incentive

David Raish

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law today that doubles the amount of energy power companies ... more ...

Policy, Solar
The Offshore Debate

Planet Forward Archive

Actor and activist Ted Danson explains why he is opposed to offshore oil drilling
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Activism
Windustrious Cleveland

Sarah Taylor

Cleveland, Ohio, has the opportunity to build the world’s first fresh water wind farm, offshore on Lake Erie.
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Wind
Block Island Generators

Darielle Terry

BRISTOL, RI __ Block Island is located 10 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, which means it’s “off the ... more ...

Clean Tech, Wind
Portsmouth Wind Turbine Redux

Briana Beltramini

PORTSMOUTH, RI __ In 2009, this little New England community raised its own wind turbine to generate its own power ... more ...

Clean Tech, Policy, Wind
Wind Power Pitch

Michael Scully

BRISTOL, RI __ Wind power has a viable future and, as RWU Professor Elefterios Pavlides points out, it’s not the ... more ...

Clean Tech
Washington DC’s Home Energy Audit Program

David Raish

A look at home energy audits and the District Department of the Environment’s free home energy audit program
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Green Living, Policy
Nebraska Wind

Planet Forward Archive

The story of Ainsworth, Nebraska
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Wind
NYC – From Sun to Sea

Planet Forward Archive

From New York City Transit
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Engineering, Policy, Solar, Transportation
Sustain Our Cities and Our Planet

Planet Forward Archive

From former Mayor of Miami Manny Diaz talks about how critical cities are to global sustainability
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GreenGov, Policy, Solar
Affordable Electric Cars

Planet Forward Archive

Making the case that affordable options should be available now
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Activism
Utilizing Wind Power In China

Planet Forward Archive


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Clean Tech, Wind
China’s Future carbon emissions will rule our collective futures

Robert Steinhaus

Future carbon emissions will not come primarily from the currently industrialized world, but from the emerging ... more ...

Engineering, Green Living, Nuclear, Policy, Solar, Wind
It’s the infrastructure, stupid

Victoria Riess

By Victoria Riess, Haley Lesavoy & Mark Abramson The technology is here, but without an infrastructure to implement ... more ...

Biofuels, Hydroelectric, Transportation