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Retail electricity customers of Texas power provider Green Mountain Energy can now choose 100 percent solar-generated electricity for a 1 cent per kilowatt-hour premium. Texas has become an intensely competitive market since […]

A new phrase has entered our energy lexicon—peak oil demand. The essential idea: prophets of doom who warned about a looming global petroleum shortfall (“peak oil”) were wrong; instead of a downturn […]

via Bit Tooth Energy http://bittooth.blogspot.com/2013/09/tech-talk-rise-and-fall-and-of-brazil.html

Humans are capable of mass collective blindness to risk. Having courted economic Armageddon in the financial sector, might we repeat the trick in energy? via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/governments-blind-fossil-fuel-energy-risk-98224?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=governments-blind-fossil-fuel-energy-risk-98224

Some scholars assert that estimates of the long-term cost of a rise in atmospheric temperatures are greatly understated.      via NYT > Environment http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/the-cost-of-climate-change/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Jorgen Randers published a book in 2012 called 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next 40 Years. A note on the front says, “A report to the Club of Rome, Commemorating the […]

CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, released a report this week that details which of the world’s largest companies are doing the best job to transparently make investments to cut […]

Spiking oil prices over the past decade weren’t just bad for motorists’ wallets. It turns out they were bad for America’s too. via Fuel Fix http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/09/24/high-oil-costs-hit-nations-wallet-too/