Energy Efficiency May Be the Key to Saving Trillions
By BETH GARDINER
Advocates say doing more with less power may be an even more critical weapon in the fight against climate change than renewable technologies.
Li Hejun, founder of Hanergy Holding, says he believes that China will be No. 1. in solar energy in the next decade.
Li Hejun, chairman of the Chinese renewable energy company Hanergy Holding Group, argues that solar energy will lead a third industrial revolution.
Advocates say doing more with less power may be an even more critical weapon in the fight against climate change than renewable technologies.
A computer model developed in Germany that simulates energy supply and demand shows that a push for renewable power sources can be economically viable.
Experts question whether the plans that the Continent has sketched out to achieve a 40 percent cut are strong enough to meet its goal.
Even as United Nations negotiators gathering in South America this week expressed a new optimism that they may finally achieve an elusive deal, experts caution that it probably will not be enough to stave off the near-term impact of global warming.
Mexico has passed laws to regulate emissions and promote renewable energy, but some analysts doubt it will commit the resources to meet its much-lauded goals.
As shrubs and seedlings take hold in scorched Bastrop State Park, whitetail deer are thriving, and concerning officials enough so that they have decided to allow hunting.
The lush residential horse pastures in Rancho Santa Fe are a reminder that life has continued almost as before in much of the state, even as some elsewhere cope with dry taps.
The agency’s move comes in response to a glut in the domestic oil market and significant public comment about the proposed targets.
Developing countries are continuing to build large infrastructure projects despite concerns about their environmental impact and the fact they are displacing people.
Farms — with a duck coop, fish enclosures and a vegetable farm moored to the riverbank — are helping Bangladeshis live with rising waters.
After an unusual land deal, a giant spill and a tanker-train explosion, anxiety began to ripple across the North Dakota prairie.
North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances.
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast.
A visit to the Aller-Leine-Tal, one of many energy cooperatives that have contributed to the success so far of Germany’s Energiewende, or energy transition.
The small German island of Heligoland, a popular tourist destination, is undergoing dramatic change as the wind industry takes over.
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