A Cooperative Approach to Renewing East Kentucky


Our good friend Randy Wilson has co-authored a terrific article with Sara Pennington (both of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth) that is a vision of how a green energy economy might look. The piece appears in Solutions, an aptly named journal devoted to finding solutions to our most pressing problems. From the abstract: “This article explores


Electric Utilities to Congress: These Climate Laws for the United State Don’t Apply to Us, Right?


Well…Grist has done it again! Another down-to-earth assessment of the proposed climate change legislation presently brewing in Washington D.C. …and they’ve detected a not-so-surprising but oh-so-disturbing counter current in these negotiations: Electric Utilities, the largest polluters on the planet, want to remain exempt from the “fully accounted cost” of their externalities; i.e. we the rate


Solar Power Now Cheaper than Nuclear in North Carolina


The cost of nuclear generated electricityvs. solar generated electricity Check out the rest of the post on FacingSouth’s Blog HERE. Below is a teaser to tide you over until the FacingSouth Blog loads: The report points out that both new solar and new nuclear power sources will cost more than present electricity generation. However, power


Lance Armstrong on the “Tour De Future” of His New Electric Car, The Nissan Leaf


Lance’s NEW car: The ALL ELECTRIC Nissan Leaf Watch the Interviews with Lance where he discusses his passion for electric vehicles at the links below: //ecotechdaily.com/2010/07/05/lance-armstrong-featured-in-new-nissan-leaf-electric-car-video/ //www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/video/view/lance_armstrong_talks_leaf?intcmp=leaf_lance_video.about.events.P3#/leaf-electric-car/video/view/lance_armstrong_talks_leaf


Editorial by Steve Owen, Executive Director of AIRE: Haley Barbour, Tool of BP


Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (right) “No one has more to loose on this well than BP.” That was Mississippi governor Haley Barbour’s parting comment on an NPR segment that I just happened to hear on June 29th. This was jaw dropping, but alas, disturbingly typical and uncritical. There couldn’t be a more perverse logic than