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With over 6000 activities planned across the globe and over 2000 right here in the United States, 350.org’s Global Work Party on 10/10/10 promises to be one of the most widespread days of political action ever. It is sending a strong message to politicians about taking action on climate change while at the same time [...]
As you read this the switch for the newly installed solar panels atop President Nasheed’s Presidental Palace in the Maldives is being flipped on. The project leader is solar company Sungevity, based out of Oakland, CA, which designed and donated the installation. Sungevity is one of the partners in Put Solar On It, encouraging world [...]
Wyoming is not the sort of place that one generally thinks of as a leader in environmental activism. Besides being a rabidly conservative state, that also spawned Dick Cheney, recently its tax department actually temporarily suspended levies at gun shows for fear of inciting an angry armed insurrection from the populace. Despite all of this, [...]
The Green Business Blog Carnival comes to EcoLocalizer! Following up on Green Business Blog Carnival post #17 on Cleantechnica (which featured a couple posts from EcoLocalizer), here’s the next edition of the Carnival for your reading pleasure. The first ride.. er, post of the day comes from Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, writing over on the SUNflitered blog. It was a [...]
About a week ago, energy giant E.ON signed a £2.3 million ($3.65 million) renewable energy/energy efficiency deal with the city of Stoke in the UK. This deal comes as part of Stoke’s efforts to become the UK’s “first sustainable city” — quite an aim (sustainability is a popular word but no easy thing to achieve). [...]
