KIUC Signs Biomass Deal

SUBHEAD: Critics, like George Monbiot, contend that burning biomass for electricity is not really a form of 'Green Energy'.By Anne Barnes on 25 January 2011 in MSN Money - (http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=PR&Date=20110125&ID=12816383&topic=TOPIC_CONTRACTS&isub=1)Image above: Power plant smoke stack. From original TreeHugger article. Kaua'i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC)

Kauai Hydro Projects Power Up

SOURCE: Kenneth Taylor (taylork021@Hawaii.rr.com)SUBHEAD: Four sites on Kauai would generate 18% of island power needs under a proposal.[Publisher's note: It seems unlikely that financing for such a project can be properly utilized by the debt strapped KIUC. They were unable to even retrofit an existing sugarcane operation into a biofuel power station. Moreover, given the pathetic record of

Ku'oko'a - Transforming Hawaii

SUBHEAD: If the Grid is to be continued Hawaii has two realistic options - geothermal and ocean energy.By Henry Curtis on 16 January 2011 in Disappeared News - (http://www.disappearednews.com/2011/01/kuokoa-transforming-hawaiis-economy.html)Image above: Rebels took out these electrical towers = Medellin, Colombia, leaving the nation's second largest city without electricity. From (http://

Sixty Lame Minutes

SUBHEAD: What this disgusting episode really shows is how eager the USA is to mount a campaign to sustain the unsustainable at all costs.Image above: Painting of fracking by Ciruelo. From (http://frackedagain.blogspot.com/2010/08/faults-with-fracking.html).By James Kunstler on 15 November 2010 in Kunstler.com -(http://kunstler.com/blog/2010/11/sixty-lame-minutes.html)So, last night CBS hauled

Nespresso Battery Greenwash

SUBHEAD: This is the worst kind of feel-good phony environmentalism and greenwashing of a ridiculous, unsustainable product.Image above: Nespressio package. Aluminum top with plastic cup of ground coffee. From original article.By Lloyd Alter on 20 October 2010 for TreeHugger - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/nespresso-battery-feelgood-phony-environmentalism.php)Imagesby Mischer'Traxler