I'd also like to point out that ENN has an "Environmental Marketplace" on the rigtht hand side halfway down their home page, subdivided by type of needs met. If you're looking for green solutions to your product or investment needs, you may well find them there.
- posted by Daniel @ 11:05 PM

 
I'm currently looking into the New Alternatives Fund as a way to invest in the future of clean renewable energy, which they state they focus on. I do not know enough at this point to endorse them, but I would love to hear from anyone with knowledge or experience about investing in this fund.
- posted by Daniel @ 11:01 PM

 
See General Electric's pages on their wind turbine offerings at: GE Imagination At Work - Wind Energy. It's pretty cool!
- posted by Daniel @ 3:36 PM

 
From ENN, how to greatly reduce energy wasted by your water heating systems: The ABCs of saving energy and cutting water heater bills.
- posted by Daniel @ 2:47 PM

 
In another article from ENN, the ACEEE has urged the Bush Administration to include efficiency and conservation as weapons in the battle against natural gas shortages.
- posted by Daniel @ 2:40 PM

 
Researchers in Wisconsin say they've found a viable and much less expensive way of using a catalyst to produce hydrogen from organic waste in this ENN article entitled Researchers find new metal combination for cheaper production of hydrogen as fuel. (One of the things they want to do is clean up and make money off of wastes from cheese processing plants!)
- posted by Daniel @ 2:31 PM

 
FRom ENS, a private foundation outlines why it will grant $8.1 Million in funds ti projects in states including Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin: McKnight Foundation Invests $8 Million in Renewables .
- posted by Daniel @ 2:18 PM

 
Another from ENS, the League of Conservative Voters has issued it's "Report Card" for the Bush Administration's environmental performance. Read all about it in: League of Conservation Voters Slams Bush Record
- posted by Daniel @ 5:54 PM

 
From ENS, reports that the EPA's recent "State of the Environment" report are in a state of artistic fiction via omission crafting - read about it in-depth at: Doctored EPA Environment Report Raises Questions
- posted by Daniel @ 5:47 PM

 
Another from ENN, France is modifying their constitution to give the environment as much importance as human rights. Read about it at: French Cabinet approves plan for a new environmental charter.
- posted by Daniel @ 5:16 PM

 
From Changing World Technologies, a way to take the waste stream and convert almost anything other than spent nuclear rods into ~ gasp! ~ oil. The thing is, this oil is using carbon that is already above the ground, rather than sequestered in ancient underground oil reserves. Imagine flushing your toilet into an oil refinery pipeline...and your drainline, and your plastic containers, used tires, old computers, yard waste, spoiled food, etc, etc, etc...and using non-polluting wind to feed the energy input into the process that creates this oil. Oil which can be refined into gasoline, diesel, heating oil, plastics, etc. OH, and by the way? The process also creates extremely pure water and industrial grade minerals...
- posted by Daniel @ 3:30 AM

 
Also from ENN, the British are moving fast to take advantage of their huge wind potential - and plannning on moving even faster. Looks like the investment environment in Britain is very good for wind energy investors, too. Check it all out in this article: Gusty Britain is boosting wind power to fight global warming.
- posted by Daniel @ 3:00 AM

 
From ENN and the Earth Policy Institute, an article to light up our pages - Wind Power Set to Become World's Leading Energy Source.

Some bullet quotes from the above article:

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"In 1991, a national wind resource inventory taken by the U.S. Department of Energy startled the world when it reported that the three most wind-rich states--North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas--had enough harnessable wind energy to satisfy national electricity needs. Now a new study by a team of engineers at Stanford reports that the wind energy potential is actually substantially greater than that estimated in 1991.

Advances in wind turbine design since 1991 allow turbines to operate at lower wind speeds, to harness more of the wind's energy, and to harvest it at greater heights--dramatically expanding the harnessable wind resource. Add to this the recent bullish assessments of offshore wind potential, and the enormity of the wind resource becomes apparent. Wind power can meet not only all U.S. electricity needs, but all U.S. energy needs."

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"If the huge offshore potential is added , it seems likely that wind power could satisfy not only world electricity needs but perhaps even total energy needs."

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"Wind is popular because it is abundant, cheap, inexhaustible, widely distributed, climate-benign, and clean--attributes that no other energy source can match. The cost of wind-generated electricity has dropped from 38¢ a kilowatt-hour in the early 1980s to roughly 4¢ a kilowatt-hour today on prime wind sites. Some recently signed U.S. and U.K. long-term supply contracts are providing electricity at 3¢ a kilowatt-hour. Wind Force 12 projected that the average cost per kilowatt hour of wind-generated electricity will drop to 2.6¢ by 2010 and to 2.1¢ by 2020. U.S. energy consultant Harry Braun says that if wind turbines are mass-produced on assembly lines like automobiles, the cost of wind-generated electricity could drop to 1-2¢ per kilowatt hour."

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"Although wind-generated electricity is already cheap, its cost continues to fall. In contrast with oil, there is no OPEC to set prices for wind."

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"Cheap electricity from wind makes it economical to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen."

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"With the wind industry's engineering know-how and manufacturing experience, it would be relatively easy to scale up the size of the industry, even doubling it annually for several years".

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"For energy investors, growth in the future lies with wind and the hydrogen produced with cheap wind-generated electricity."

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"If the need arises to shift quickly to hydrogen-fueled automobiles, this can be done by converting gasoline-burning internal combustion engines to hydrogen with inexpensive conversion kits."

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"The energy future belongs to wind. The world energy economy became progressively more global during the twentieth century as the world turned to oil. It promises to reverse direction and become more local during the twenty-first century as the world turns to wind, wind-generated hydrogen, and solar cells. Wind and wind-generated hydrogen will shape not only the energy sector of the global economy but the global economy itself."

And from us here at the Great Lakes Zephyr:

"The breeze always blows in the Windy City,
And all her sisters along the shores,
Could they but blow closed eyelids open,
How rich we'd see we are..."

Looks like it's starting to happen. I strongly recommend reading this article - it's telling us something we need to know and jump on. G.W.B. - take note and find a better place to invest your time and energy.
- posted by Daniel @ 2:30 AM

 
Also from ENS, the latest on the state of carbon sequestration initiatives, in: Carbon Sequestration Focus of Leadership Forum.
- posted by Daniel @ 12:29 AM

 
From ENS, Brazil and the U.S have signed an expansive agreement on energy cooperation and collaboration, including developing President Bush's proposed hydrogen economy, and cooperation on new nukes and carbon sequestration. Brazil is the first Latin American country to sign up. Read all about it at: United States, Brazil Forge Closer Energy Ties
- posted by Daniel @ 12:21 AM

 
A group devoted to renewable energy in Wisconsin: Renew Wisconsin.org. They have a wide range of renewable energy project listings and information on the state.
- posted by Daniel @ 11:20 AM

 
From the AWEA, a listing of the wind energy projects in Wisconsin.
- posted by Daniel @ 11:15 AM