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Energy Day 2010: Our Energy is Our Power

This week, CEA takes a step back from the various issues that concern us each day, to celebrate energy – in all its forms...

Solar Panels at the White House

Just last month, people were wondering why the Obama White House would not install solar panels, even when asked point blank to do so....

Footprints and Toeprints: Share Your Airport Experiences

If you’re like most people, when you think about travel-related energy consumption, you think about the big things: The size of the car, the...

Clean Energy’s Killer App?

We’ve talked a lot in this blog about renewable energy sources like solar and wind, as these two seem to be garnering the bulk...

Can Wal-Mart Move the Needle on Solar?

It’s the kind of deal you don’t hear about every day: The world’s largest retailer (that’s Wal-Mart Stores) recently announced plans to add solar...

Keeping the Focus on Jobs

If you were one of the people who found the news of the Great Recession ending a little ironic, you are not alone. Although...

Food for thought

It is common to frame the discussion of energy consumption in terms of the cars we drive and the houses we heat. But there’s...

Drilling in the Arctic: We need an honest debate

by Guest Blogger: Jessica Shadian Earlier this month, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar traveled to Alaska’s North Slope and said that drilling new exploratory wells in...

The power of small steps

Butte Community College in northern California is hardly the biggest, or the best endowed college in the country, but it is on track to...

Take This Bill and… Measure it!

Finding a starting point from which to measure is often the hardest first step to evaluating the efficiency of your home’s energy usage....