Renewable Energy Roundup

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It seems these roundups are getting bigger and bigger each week, the sheer bulk of the renewable energy news is becoming staggering. But that’s a good thing right? To the news!

A mix of incentives, and rebates are causing solar power to heat up! Common sense and good planning helped as well.

Just because Bush wants to cut funding for the National Renewable Energy Lab, doesn’t mean the Democratic Party are going to let him get away with it.

The largest roofing company in California teames up with industry leaders to offer solar power solutions to its customers. Not a bad idea, solar should be a common item you can get on a home, like marble counter tops or wood floors.

New Zealand Toyota is calling for a carbon tax.

Find out who’s funding global warming.

Leo is doing eco sites, its always fun when the wealthy go green. And he is so cute to boot!

Check out these sweet straw bale construction pictures from Cleveland.

Check out these interesting planter pots made from cow shit. You plant your plants in them and the pot biodegrades into fertilizer. That’s some good shit.

Here is another Orange waste into biofuel story, this time from Florida.

ACORE has release some standard rules for renewable energy credits, this is a good step towards industry standardization on what till now has been a rather standard-less arena.

Check out this e-book about a nuclear power plant accident. Haven’t read it all but it looks interesting.

The EU is talking about raising its use of renewable energy, lets hope they do it.

Here is an interesting solar powered gate opener. I fully support using the sun to power anything we can figure out a way to.

I come from Northwest Ohio so its always good to hear that a solar factory near my home is doing well. Seems they are taking off on the stock market!

Idaho (no you da ho) is back in the wind game again.

The EU is talking about creating a giant interconnected family of wind farms. I give you the MEGA-FARM.

Hope you enjoyed the roundup, remember if you have some news you would like see rounded up, drop me a line and I will include it in next weeks roundup.