Daily Archives: July 3, 2008

Worldisgreen Links 07/03/2008

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  • Turn on, plug in, drop out | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

    tags: wiglinks, marketing, subscription

    • • Innovative business model: For the first time in the electric vehicle business, ownership of the car is separated from the requirement to own a battery. Consumers will buy and own their car and subscribe to energy, including the use of the battery, on a basis of kilometers driven. This model is similar to the way mobile phones are sold, with an initial purchase and a monthly subscription for the mobility service.

  • diary of an internet addict: how Internet can help relief global warming

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    • So what I propose here is that every house should have a dumb terminal that connects to broadband internet with a powerful server at the end that serve thousands, maybe hundred of thousands people. These servers, enable people to do their job at home, collaborating using teleconference, and many more. With this scheme, actual reduction of CO2 emissions can be achieved.

  • Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects – NYTimes.com

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    • Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.

      The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah

  • Follow Arnie’s lead | The Australian

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    • WE have been altogether too gloomy about climate change. Just look at the fun Arnold Schwarzenegger is having in California, which contains the sixth largest economy in the world. Where Australian politicians see only risks, the Governator sees opportunities.

  • Rudd locks in green power plan | theage.com.au

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    • Rudd locks in green power plan



      • Chris Hammer Canberra
      • July 3, 2008

      THE Rudd Government has set Australia on course for a new era of greener but more expensive electricity, pressing ahead with a plan to make 20% of ou

    • THE Rudd Government has set Australia on course for a new era of greener but more expensive electricity, pressing ahead with a plan to make 20% of our power come from renewable sources within just over a decade.

  • U.K. Dangles Green Carrot to Drive Renewables Revolution | GreenBiz.com

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    • Speaking at the launch of the new strategy, which sets out how the U.K. plans to meet its target of generating 15 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2020, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the “green revolution” would result in a tenfold increase in the U.K.’s current renewable energy capacity.

Businessess will pass the buck on

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BCA to pass buck on emissions | theage.com.au

Business Council of Australia president Greig Gailey will use a keynote address in Sydney today to tell consumers they should expect to pay more as business prepares to pass on higher energy costs.

He says businesses will seek to reduce their energy use but where they are exposed to extra costs, they will be passed directly on to “households, other businesses and government”.

“Efforts to force business to absorb these costs or to limit the extent to which business can pass on carbon costs will only result in less investment, fewer jobs and lower growth,” Mr Gailey says. “Where costs cannot be passed on and energy efficiencies are not available, business will simply cease to exist if this prevents them from earning an adequate return on investment.”

This will surely happen but for businesses which will start implementing carbon reduction programs from now on will have a competitive advantage to hold or reduce their prices. This is an opportunity for forward thinking businesses. Did you start talking to a “carbon consultant”?

Project Better Place – Concept Video

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Shai Agassi was predicted to be the future CEO of SAP. Instead, he started Project Better Place. This is an ambitious game changing idea to create infrastructure to support electric cars. In a way, his work is one part of the chicken and egg problem of extending the range of electric cars.

Israel and Renault-Nissan will be the first partnership to deploy electric cars on a large scale. Denmark is the second country. Shai explains it on his blog about the partnership and the concept.

You can follow more at Shai’s blog. Check out the video.