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Are smart grids an energy game changer?
Computerized “smart grids” could be a boon to the global deployment of decentralized renewable energy. But are they there yet?
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Oil crunch and Eurozone crisis
The European Greens raise concerns about the possible impacts of peak oil.
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Policy innovation for technology diffusion: Japanese renewable energy
Japan's experience with renewable energy illustrates the political dimension of policy innovation.
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Lessons for Appalachia’s post-coal economy
Appalachia's residents are working to keep local and sustainable sources of wealth central in a post-coal economy.
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Energy innovation and traditional knowledge
It is crucial to remember that harvesting alternative energy can have impacts on local and indigenous communities.
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Transition Town Fujino goes for local energy independence
A Japanese community has embraced the Transition Movement and is working towards a more resilient and sustainable future.
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Japan — short- and long-term energy risks
Keeping nuclear power in its energy equation, Japan does little to ameliorate short- and long-term risks of oil dependency.
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Small islands push for new energy
Small islands seek to slash or eliminate fossil fuel use and related pollution, while increasing energy security, employment and economic and social well-being.
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Making a difference through geothermal energy
A UNU fellow discusses how geothermal can help Kenya in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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India: Forget the grid, community power is here
A new era of entrepreneurs in India have begun a revolutionary effort to deliver energy access via off grid cell phone towers.
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By George, we are all going to fry…
Brendan Barrett explains how some are getting fixated on defending the status quo and it is upping the chances that we face grave planetary consequences.
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Big picture policy responses to peak oil
Four policy scenarios to guide societies trying to respond to the implications of peak oil (and climate change).
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Boulder votes to free its electric company
Finding the private utility's take-up of renewables too slow, a US city opts for local control, less coal and more energy innovation.
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Policy-makers slow to take peak oil action
The peaking of oil production has gone from a fringe theory to an accepted fact. Yet policy inaction remains the rule.
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How rural America got fracked
In a new environmental nightmare you knew nothing about, ancient sandstone hills are being razed for a type of silica used by the natural gas industry.
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End of business as we know it
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, we have gone from success to success. But is "business as usual" still an option?
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