A few months back our Five Friday Facts came by way of a 60 Minutes story on Brazil (see the video clip below). Many of the facts touted Brazil’s progress in the area of clean energy. One that did not make the cut was the following fact, “Ninety percent of the roads in the country are still [...]
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The Double Edged Sword of Growth and Development
March 14th, 2011 
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1 Comment »December Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
December 2nd, 2010 Eric Wilson Much as was the case with this time last year, there seem to be fewer conferences on the topics of sustainability and clean energy during the month of December, especially toward the end of the month. Whether it’s the cold temperatures, the holiday season in much of the western world, or fatigue, most of the [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Sustainable Development Tags: Africa, Calendar, Colorado, Lifecycle, Wind Power No Comments »Five Friday Facts: World Cup Edition
June 11th, 2010 Justin Manger “The Beautiful Game” of soccer, the world’s most popular sport, begins its fevered quadrennial tournament of hype, excitement, defeat, and victory as teams from around the planet begin battling it out today at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The U.S. takes on England tomorrow June 12th at 2:30pm Eastern Time on ABC. As the [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Africa, Carbon Dioxide No Comments »December Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
November 30th, 2009 Eric Wilson On or around the first of every month, 2nd Green Revolution updates the upcoming green events calendar for the coming month. Last month we began including a post highlighting some of the intriguing events for that month. This month there are several international conferences posted on Conference Alerts. Here are a few domestic and a [...]
Concentrated Solar Power Project in North Africa
August 6th, 2009 Eric Wilson Last month, 2nd Green Revolution brought you news of DESERTEC, a project aimed at tapping into the vast potential solar energy in the Sahara desert. The plan brought together various conglomerations from Europe with an eye on transmitting the power from Northern Africa to European countries. In a follow up to a recent story on [...]
United Nations “Picture This” Photo Contest Update
July 21st, 2009 Eric Wilson Last month 2nd Green Revolution wrote about the United Nations photo contest “Picture This: Caring for the Earth.” In an email correspondence with the coordinator of the contest, 2nd Green Revolution learned that the deadline has been extended to September 30th. As a reminder, here are the rules and regulations for the contest: It is [...]
Solar Power In the Sahara
July 15th, 2009 Justin Manger Turning the Sahara Desert into a major solar power producer seems like a no brainer on the surface. An enormous expanse of sparsely populated land with strong and steady sunshine should be the ideal place to build major solar installations. Take into account some main concerns, however, and the idea runs into problems. The Sahara [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Economy, Justin Manger, Renewable Energy Tags: Africa, Electricity Generation, Solar Energy No Comments »Picture This: Caring for the Earth – United Nations Photo Contest
June 25th, 2009 Eric Wilson Two months ago 2nd Green Revolution posted a picture of the world for Earth Day that appeared to be composed of satellite images from NASA. A representative from The United Nations contacted us to find out about the picture ahead of their photo contest, “Picture This: Caring for the Earth.” The contest, which began on [...]
