Over the course of the past academic year, 30 collegiate athletic conferences comprising more than 70 universities competed in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) College and University Green Power Challenge. The competition, which is an offshoot of EPA’s Green Power Partnership, wrapped up last month with the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania taking the top [...]
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EPA’s Green Power Challenge
May 15th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Education, Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy 
Tags: Biomass, EPA, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Solar Energy, Wind Power 
No Comments »Double Set of Five Friday Facts: Natural Gas Leads the Pack
April 13th, 2012 Eric Wilson When looking at which energy source provides the most energy to the American economy, natural gas topped the charts for 2010 (the most recent year for which data was fully available). Today’s set of facts looks at the breakdown of the various sources and follows up last week’s Five Friday Facts which looked at the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Coal, Energy, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Oil Consumption, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »Ball State Completes Largest Geothermal Installation
April 10th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few years back we wrote an article about Ball State University’s plan to replace their coal-fired boilers with a geothermal system. As it turns out, the time has come. According to the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Office of the Department of Energy, Ball State has completed the nation’s largest ground-source geothermal system [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, News, Renewable Energy Tags: Coal, Department of Energy, Geothermal, Green Jobs, Jobs, Stimulus Bill No Comments »Geothermal Air-Conditioning Systems for Japanese “Combini”
March 19th, 2012 Justin Manger Seven-Eleven is the largest of the combini (convenience store) chains that can be found on nearly every block in large cities around Japan. Selling everything from juice and rice balls to beer and fish, underwear and band-aids, niku-man (meat stuffed steamed dumplings) and adult magazines, the combini is a uniquely Japanese experience. They are also [...]
Is Germany the Model for a Second Green Revolution?
January 20th, 2012 Chris DeArmond In May 2011, shortly after the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Germany’s government decided to put the country on track to phase out its nuclear power plants by 2022. In its place will be energy from renewable sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and bioenergy, as mandated by Germany’s 2012 Renewable Energy Act. As one of [...]
Posted in Policy, Renewable Energy Tags: Chris DeArmond, Geothermal, Nuclear, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »The Need for Sustainable and Easily Accessible Alternative Energy
October 24th, 2011 Guest Author With the increasing costs of energy and the pertinent issues of global warming, people are posing questions whether it’s feasible to have alternative energy systems. Alternate energy comprises energy being developed by any other source ranging from nuclear to harnessing energies from any garbage. The term renewable is different from alternative power. It speaks about [...]
Posted in Guest Authors, Renewable Energy Tags: Alternative Energy, Biomass, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Solar Energy, Wind Power 1 Comment »EPA’s Renewable Energy Cost Database
August 23rd, 2011 Eric Wilson Until costs of renewable energy can compete with traditional sources like coal and nuclear, it will be difficult for them to gain a large foothold. Recent news of hydroeletric power surpassing nuclear, at least temporarily, indicates that some shifts in electricity generation are occurring. However, finding reliable data to compare these alternative sources to extant [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Clean Energy, Coal, Electricity Generation, EPA, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Nuclear, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »Five Friday Facts
July 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson The following facts come from Lester Brown’s Plan B 4.0, which was published in 2009. The book is available in print or as a downloadable PDF from The Earth Policy Institute’s website. For all of the Five Friday Facts culled from Plan B 4.0, click here. Denmark gets more than 20% of its electricity from [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Denmark, Geothermal, Plan B 4.0, Solar Energy, Water, Wind Power No Comments »Germany Eschews Nuclear in Favor of Renewable Energy
June 30th, 2011 Eric Wilson As yet further evidence of the backlash from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant’s post earthquake crisis in Japan, German officials have announced that they will shutter all remaining nuclear reactors within the next decade. Last month, the BBC reported that the German leadership would move in this direction. Officially, all reactors will be taken [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Japan, News, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Electricity Generation, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Nuclear, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »Renewable Energy and Natural Disasters
March 15th, 2011 Eric Wilson For those readers who know and follow 2nd Green Revolution, you’re probably aware that Justin lived in Japan for a few years and travels there frequently. The recent earthquakes and tsunami give us great pause for thought. These disasters are unforeseeable and devastating. Perhaps one day science will be able to predict earthquakes with some [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Japan, Justin Manger, Renewable Energy Tags: Climate Change, Geothermal, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy No Comments »
