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Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can

Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion
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Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can

Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion
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Berlin Is The Latest City To Pull Out Of Fossil Fuels

Berlin Is The Latest City To Pull Out Of Fossil Fuels | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Ich bin auch ein Umweltschützer!
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Land Use and Energy Use Taxation and Dividend - P2P Foundation

Land Use and Energy Use Taxation and Dividend - P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Land Use and Energy Use Taxation and Dividend - P2P Foundation https://t.co/e8TBBxch5V
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Abundance Project: This New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, And Handle Its Own Waste

Abundance Project: This New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, And Handle Its Own Waste | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
One of the most fallaciously accepted beliefs in society today is that there isn't enough space or resources available for everyone. The belief is that the planet is overpopulated and that humanity can't harmonize with the environment symbiotically.
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Saltwater Battery Can Power Your Off Grid Home For 10 Years

Saltwater Battery Can Power Your Off Grid Home For 10 Years | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

This new battery runs on saltwater and can power your home for nearly 10 years (3000 days/nights). The best thing is it’s safer for the environment. Not only are the new Aquion batteries are safer for the environment, they are also non-flammable, non-hazardous, and non-explosive, unlike traditional lithium-ion or lead-acid batteries. Because it’s full of saltwater. Last time we checked water was not flammable. I mean they do use it to put out fires and stuff.

 

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The Internet of Everything Makes Energy Better

The Internet of Everything Makes Energy Better | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Xerox is inventing smart devices, smart infrastructures and smart insights for the energy market.

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My Perfect Country: Costa Rica, My Perfect Country, The Compass - BBC World Service

My Perfect Country: Costa Rica, My Perfect Country, The Compass - BBC World Service | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A timeline of Costa Rica's race to be carbon neutral by 2021
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Rejecting casinos, Onondagas invest in an experiment: futuristic greenhouses

Rejecting casinos, Onondagas invest in an experiment: futuristic greenhouses | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Experts question the short-term business plan.
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Catalyst: Battery powered homes - ABC TV Science

Catalyst: Battery powered homes - ABC TV Science | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Theres a power revolution heading for our homes – a device that allows you to take power into your own hands Its batteries home batteries and theyve been called the holy grail of renewables – th
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Microgrids Paving the Way for Distributed Energy

Microgrids Paving the Way for Distributed Energy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The energy market in the US is getting more diversified as consumers shift their habits by producing more electricity autonomously while increasing environmental regulation is impacting the main grid. There are so many people producing their own renewable power that they can form their own community grids.
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Robin Hood Energy: Nottingham launches not-for-profit power firm

Robin Hood Energy: Nottingham launches not-for-profit power firm | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Company is first council-owned energy firm to operate on that basis since market was nationalised in 1948
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Climate justice means energy democracy

Climate justice means energy democracy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

As the 2015 UN climate talks in Paris enter their final days, a new campaign for energy democracy is launching this week across the channel. Switched On Londonis a new grassroots initiative that aims to put publicly-owned renewable energy on the political map for London in 2016.

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Switching on to energy democracy

Popular participation, social ideals and ecological sustainability are key attributes of sustainable systems, Claire Fauset writes.
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Exergy — Heating and Computation | Project Exergy

Exergy — Heating and Computation | Project Exergy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
What if heat was the primary benefit of computation? Capture and store heat from computation and use energy more efficiently
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Sweden Opens World's First Electric Highway

Sweden Opens World's First Electric Highway | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Sweden opened a stretch of electric highway, becoming the first country to test electric power for heavy transport.
Electric-powered trucks are expected to cut 80 to 90 percent of fossil fuel emissions in Sweden.
A 22 kilometer (or roughly 13 miles) stretch of the E16 road—which connects Oslo
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The Alternative Energy Matrix | Do the Math

The Alternative Energy Matrix | Do the Math | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

"we face the end of a golden era of energy. Sure, we managed to make scientific and cultural progress based on energy from animals, slaves, and firewood prior to discovering the fossil fuels. But it was in unlocking our one-time inheritance that we really came into our own. Soon, we will see a yearly decrease in our trust fund dividend, forcing us to either adapt to less or try to fill the gap with replacements. What this post and the series preceding it demonstrates is that we do not have a delightful menu from which to select our future. Most of the options leave a bad taste of one form or the other.

Vivalist's curator insight, May 31, 2016 7:03 PM
even thoug the author is clearly on the "pragmatic" science front, not putting CO2 emissions as top priority,  the info provided with the matrix is rather interesting. 

not surprisingly, the "soluton"  being to mix them.
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Global Private Investment in Green Tech Totals $7.13 Trillion | P2P Foundation

The Renewable Energy sector is growing as fossil fuel becomes less appealing due to cost parity with renewables, driving evolution to sustainable societies.
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Internet of Energy will change how energy is generated, transported and financed

Internet of Energy will change how energy is generated, transported and financed | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The Internet of Energy will enable the complex coordination between suppliers and users to facilitate future energy generation, transportation and financing.
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Siward Zomer: Energy Cooperatives Creating a Better Social Economy - Economy, People & Planet 2015

Siward Zomer speaking about energy cooperatives at the conference Economy, People & Planet 2015, organised by Omstilling Nu/Transition Now.

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Secrets of the trade: Insights into Sonnen’s PV-plus-storage energy trading platform

Secrets of the trade: Insights into Sonnen’s PV-plus-storage energy trading platform | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
PV Tech Storage attended the late November launch of sonnenCommunity, a new energy trading platform launched on a limited basis in Germany based on Sonnen’s residential energy storage systems. Andy Colthorpe spoke to two key members of the Sonnen team at the event, CEO Christoph Ostermann and sales director Philip Schröder.
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Switching on to energy democracy

Switching on to energy democracy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Popular participation, social ideals and ecological sustainability are key attributes of sustainable systems, Claire Fauset writes.
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The ORIGIN project

ORIGIN is a sophisticated intelligent ICT system for the management of energy in a community. In this video you will hear from our researchers at Heriot-Watt...
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The Bill Gates book review: Have you hugged a concrete pillar today?

The Bill Gates book review: Have you hugged a concrete pillar today? | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The car I drive to work is made of around 2,600 pounds of steel, 800 pounds of plastic, and 400 pounds of light metal alloys. The trip from my house to the office is roughly four miles long, all surface streets, which means I travel over some 15,000 tons of concrete each morning. Once I’m at the...
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Renewable Energy After COP21: Nine issues for climate leaders to think about on the journey home - Commons Transition

Renewable Energy After COP21: Nine issues for climate leaders to think about on the journey home - Commons Transition | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
COP21 in Paris is over. Now it’s back to the hard work of fighting for, and implementing, the energy transition.
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