Denmark & Germany Next to Announce Big Renewable Energy Targets & Possibilities
Yes, more European countries are showing that they are very serious about addressing climate change, while the U.S. does,.. well,.. not much. It was just the other I wrote about Northern Ireland and...
View ArticleLargest Offshore Wind Farm in World Completed in UK
Since I’m on a renewable energy in Europe kick this week, thought I’d share one more piece of good news. The largest offshore wind farm in the world was launched in the UK last week. This $1.2 billion...
View ArticleAfrica Getting its First Giant Wind Farm
Four Cape Verde islands have just been granted funding to build Africa’s first giant wind farm. The project is being considered a model for other African countries. The European Investment Bank (EIB)...
View ArticlePeru to Add 200 MW of Renewable Energy in 2012
Peru is not a renewable energy giant, for sure. But it, like many countries around the world, is taking climate change and peak oil seriously and is looking to do its part. Peru is planning to...
View ArticleObama State of the Union Address 2011 [VIDEO]
Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address (full text) is important to us all because it is not only a critical reflection on where we stand today, but also on where we’re going, where we need to go, and...
View ArticleRomania Home to Large, New Wind Energy Hub
Vestas is the world’s leading manufacturer of wind turbines. There are 41,000 Vestas wind turbines in 65 countries around the world, creating approximately 20,000 jobs. Together, they cut CO2 emissions...
View ArticleSay Goodbye to Nuclear Power
It's the end of the world as we know it, but that is not a bad thing. This is the dawn of a new era in which the planet's residents finally realize that nuclear energy was a really bad idea. The...
View ArticleSouth Korea to Build Largest Offshore Wind Farm (in World)
South Korea is a definite cleantech leader. Its cleantech investments per GDP are many, many times more than the US', or any other country's I'm aware of. Check out the graphics below on percentage of...
View ArticleMartian Microbes, Wind Energy & the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Link Party
Ecolocalizer is a member of an interconnected blog cooperative known as Important Media, a community of websites dedicated to news that matters. Each week we highlight a list of featured articles from...
View ArticleSiemens’ New Wind Turbine Commercial is Pretty Badass (video)
Siemens’ latest commercial for their extreme wind turbine program combines dramatic, computer-generated camera angles, swooping visuals, and an epic soundtrack that might be more appropriate for a...
View ArticleGerman Village Has Huge, 300% Energy Surplus
The German village of Wildpoldsried is producing 321% more energy than it needs. Selling that energy surplus back to the region’s local utility company adds $5.7 million dollars to the town’s treasury....
View ArticleWind Tree Project Turns Street Art into Electric Power
A new French start-up, NewWind, is making wind power beautiful! Their new Wind Tree offers almost a hundred mini-windmills on an apparatus designed to look like a tree. Due to the light construction...
View ArticleScotland Aiming for 100% Clean Energy by 2025
While the U.S. may aim for a 15% Renewable Energy Standard by 2021, and Northern Ireland has just confirmed a much stronger target of 40% renewable energy by 2020, Scotland is aiming a bit higher. It...
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