As he has done previously in talking about the state of America, President Obama had several things to say about energy in Tuesday night’s speech (transcript here). For one, due to a surge in domestic oil production, imports of foreign oil have fallen to the lowest levels in 16 years and “American oil production is the highest that [...]
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Obama Returns to Energy Theme in State of the Union
January 26th, 2012 
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Posted in Behavior, Business, Clean Technology, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Transportation 
Tags: Alternative Energy, Clean Energy, Congress, Electricity Generation, Energy, Green Technology, Renewable Energy, Washington DC 
No Comments »Known for Going Big, Texas Places Large Bet on Algae
October 13th, 2011 Justin Manger Austin is supposed to be great. I’ve never been but I fall into that category of people who have heard great things, yet never gotten around to going. For those who have been, did it live up to your expectations? Did you get the college vibe, the artsy vibe, the music vibe? How about the [...]
University of Maryland Wins the 2011 Solar Decathlon
October 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson Much like the World Track and Field Championships, which are held every other odd-numbered year and boast the world’s greatest athlete (i.e. the decathlon winner), the Solar Decathlon in Washington D.C. also takes place biannually on years ending in odd numbers. Two years ago, the team from Germany was victorious for the second straight competition. [...]
Five Friday Facts: CU-Buffaloes
September 16th, 2011 Eric Wilson As a follow up to the EPA’s Game Day Challenge post from earlier this week, this set of Five Friday Facts deals with the waste diversion efforts at the University of Colorado Boulder’s football stadium. Virtually all public food and beverage services in Folsom Field have converted have switched to recyclable or compostable materials and [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Recylcing Tags: Boulder-Colorado, Carbon Dioxide, Composting, Energy, EPA, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »Sierra Club Releases Its 5th Annual Coolest Schools Rankings
August 29th, 2011 Eric Wilson It seems like college rankings can be found just about anywhere, ranking just about any component of higher education. 2nd Green Revolution has covered a few of these in past, including the Sierra Club and Princeton Review’s ranking of green colleges. This earlier rendition of the “Cool Schools” ranking contains a number of schools that [...]
Posted in Education, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: California, Energy, Food No Comments »Energy Efficiency and Economic Recoveries
August 28th, 2011 Eric Wilson Although the United States economy generates something on the order of 15 trillion dollars in GDP, several figures in terms of expenditures have become particularly worrisome. A Five Friday Facts from a few months ago contained the following figure: $202 billion is spent annually on home heating and cooling bills in the United States. In [...]
Posted in Behavior, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed Tags: Coal, Electricity Generation, Energy, USGBC No Comments »NYU Saves Energy During the Heat Wave
August 19th, 2011 Eric Wilson The spell of hot weather last month would seem an unlikely time to reduce energy consumption, but New York University shaved approximately 15% off their normal energy usage. A heat wave may seem like an inopportune time to reduce electricity use, but demand during the summer has created problems in the past, like the blackouts [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Eric Wilson, News, Sustainability Tags: Energy, Grid, New York City 2 Comments »Department of Energy Relaunches Energy.gov
August 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson Go to doe.gov and you will end up at the government’s website for the Department of Energy. The Energy Department also runs Energy.gov, which relaunched their sister site late last week in order to “make it easier for you to find important energy information and services in your community.” Check out the revamped site. They [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, News, Policy, President Obama Tags: Department of Energy, Energy, Stephen Chu No Comments »New Lightbulb by Phillips “Greenest Ever”
August 8th, 2011 Justin Manger A 10 watt light-emitting diode, or LED, bulb has been named the greenest replacement for the time-worn 60 watt bulb. The Philips made bulb won $10 million from the Department of Energy by winning the L Prize (covered here nearly 2 years ago) for creating “high performance, energy-saving replacements” for the incandescents that still proliferate around the country. In [...]
From Renewable Fuels to Sustainable Ones
July 31st, 2011 Eric Wilson The conflating of “renewable” with “sustainable” is not a perfect pairing. Consider the definition of sustainable, “of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged.” While renewable fuels offer the possibility of renewed sources of energy, they do not automatically represent [...]
