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Clean Energy

How to tap the sun, wind, tide, and other planet-friendly sources of power.

Growing Power in an Urban Food     Desert Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert
by Roger Bybee
Will Allen’s farm offers fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, and a taste of the delicious possibilities of farming the urban food deserts.
Social Change not Climate Change Social Change not Climate Change
by Juliette Beck
Activists and communities in the United Kingdom—where over two hundred years ago, the first lumps of coal were burnt to power the industrial revolution—are igniting a historic revolution of their own. Last week, over 1500 people from all walks of life converged in the Kent countryside, just one-hour southeast of London by train, to rally against climate change in a demonstration of collective, sustainable living and creative direct action.
The First Rural Women Heroes of Tombouctou The First Rural Women Heroes of Tombouctou
If a village in Tombouctou can be solar electrified against such tremendous odds adopting a Barefoot approach, then it is possible to replicate this process anywhere.
The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of the Gambia The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of the Gambia
See the solar installation in process, start to finish: follow two rural illiterate women from The Gambia who learn how to become Barefoot Solar Engineers.
Let the Sun Shine In (and some wind, too) Let the Sun Shine In (and some wind, too)
 
Barefoot Photographers :: Photo Essay :4:
 
13 Best Energy Ideas 13 Best Energy Ideas
by Sarah van Gelder
Investment in energy projects will total $16 trillion in the next two decades. Sarah van Gelder lays out over a dozen sustainable energy policies and technologies that can make our infrastructure more climate friendly.
Electricity: An Astonishing     Abundance Electricity: An Astonishing Abundance
by Guy Dauncey
Solar energy from photovoltaics, energy from wind, energy from waves and times and from geothermal sources add up to enough to transition from fossil fuels. It is doable.
Local Energy, Local Power Local Energy, Local Power
by Winona LaDuke
Energy for Democracy - wind on the Great Plains could power the country. Tribes are working to bring energy production home.
It Takes Energy to Make Energy It Takes Energy to Make Energy
by Doug Pibel
Biofuel creation graphically explained.
Peak oil preview: North Korea &     Cuba Peak oil preview: North Korea & Cuba
by Dale Jiajun Wen
Cuba survived much more comfortably than North Korea after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent diminished oil supply. The government reaction of both countries is examined as a precursor to Peak Oil throughout the world.
Cool Technologies Cool Technologies
Ten of our favorite simple ways to cut oil dependence.
Getting There on Less Getting There on Less
by Guy Dauncey
How might we get around with less oil? Here’s a 12-step program to kick our addiction to gas guzzling.
Resource Guide: Can We Live Without Oil? Resource Guide: Can We Live Without Oil?
Books and website listings that deal with alternatives to oil, and conservation. energy efficiency and renewable energy/fuels, alternative transportation, understanding the problem with oil
Tribes Find Power In Wind Tribes Find Power In Wind
by Winona LaDuke
Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, COUP, first wind generator dedicated on Rosebud Reservation, clean energy windshed. sustainable homeland economic development. summer 2003.
A Sustainable Energy Plan For the     US A Sustainable Energy Plan For the US
by Guy Dauncey
Examines the policies, technologies, and strategies that could lead the US and the world to a sustainable energy future.
Where There's a Way Where There's a Way
by Michael M'Gonigle
Where there's a way, by Michael M'Gonigle. Global Trade Agreements are just the latest way local communities are losing control over the surrounding forests and the watersheds. If there was a way to reclaim the commons, might there also be a political will?
Yes But How? Yes But How?
by Doug Pibel, Annie Berthold-Bond
Green Electricity, Avoiding Dry-Cleaning , Using Black Birch , and Non-toxic Wood Stain
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