Green Building Council events
The Coachella Valley Branch of the U.S. Green Building Council will be talking energy at its quarterly meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at The Living Desert’s adminstration building, 47-900 Potrero Ave.,...
View ArticleU.S. scores low on energy efficiency
The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has released an international energy efficiency score card, looking at how the 12 top industrialized countries score on a range of measures of...
View ArticleMight as well face it, we’re addicted to oil
I have been meditating — an occasionally dangerous past time for reporters – on the metaphor often used to describe the United States’ overdependence on fossil fuels, addiction, and what that might...
View ArticleGetting the renewable energy mix right
I was out at Desert Mirage High School in Thermal on Wednesday, talking with students in the school’s green tech career academy about what I do as an energy and green tech reporter — ask people a lot...
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Riverside County solar fee: Where has $1.2 million gone?
Construction workers at the Desert Sunlight solar project connect wiring to photovoltaic solar panels at the 550-megawatt project near Desert Center. (Courtesy of Desert Sunlight) Riverside County’s...
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2012 Green news round-up
I’m starting work on my Sunday column, which will be a wrap-up of 2012′s top energy and green tech stories in the Coachella Valley, and as background, hopped online to see what stories other green...
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Climate, food, water and energy — they’re all connected
Friday afternoon, the National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee – a consortium of 13 federal agencies — released its 3rd draft report on the impact of climate change on the U.S. As seems to be the...
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