Can Farms Bounce Back From Superstorms Like Sandy?

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MOTHER JONES October 31, 2012   THE MAIN DISH Can Farms Bounce Back From Superstorms Like Sandy? Farmers have always lived with what the novelist Henry James called the "imagination of disaster"—the keen sense that there's always something, anything, that can go wrong. In that long interval between sowing tiny seeds and reaping valuable crops, droughts, floods, plagues of pests, tumbling trees, ravaging beasts, mysterious molds—all threaten your livelihood and haunt your dreams. But the last seven years have been ridiculous. In 2005, the sixth-most powerful hurricane ever recorded blitzed into the Mississippi River Delta region, flattening $900 million worth of crops. Less than two years after Katrina, a "500-year flood" visited the Midwestern corn belt—which, as the US Geological Survey pointed out at the time, marked the second "500-year flood" in 15 years. In 2011, Texas suffered the most severe 12-month drought in its recorded history, resulting in a stunning $5.2 billion in crop and livestock losses, eclipsing the state's previous record high in crop losses set just five years earlier. Then came last August's Hurricane Irene, which deluged farmland and destroyed crops from Puerto Rico to Canada, taking a particular toll on farmers in Vermont and New York state. And now comes unprecedented "superstorm" Sandy. Will our nation's farms ever recover? And can they adapt to this stormy new reality?  [READ MORE]   SIDE DISH Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies This Halloween, we take you deep inside an industry's campaign to frost its image, hold regulators at bay, and keep scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? [READ MORE]   ADVERTISEMENT Furious about global warming, wealth concentration, voter suppression, Citizens United? Love Elizabeth Warren, Dennis Kucinich, Al Gore? Then place my paperback 95 THESES UPDATED: An Urgent Call for Christian Action against Global Warming and Wealth Concentration on doors of churches in your area BEFORE the election! 131 pages, $7.95. "To order by Paypal, credit email account: pwm223408865@yahoo.com or call author at 908-859-1778 and leave clear message & phone no."	RECIPE OF THE WEEK Tom's Kitchen: A Spicy-Hot Soup to Crush Your Cold Laid low by a cold? This soup will lift your spirits. [READ MORE]     MORE FROM MOJO NASA Warned New York About Hurricane Danger Six Years Ago Scientists told us a storm like Sandy would be catastrophic. When will we listen? [READ MORE]     Follow Tom Philpott on Twitter   Read the Tom Philpott blog
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Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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Japan to build massive solar energy system in Oita Prefecture Hydrogen Fuel News Unwilling to replace nuclear energy with fossil-fuels, the Japanese government has taken steps to become more aggressive with its adoption of alternative energies, such as solar, wind, and hydrogen power. Now, Japan's solar energy plans are beginning ... See all stories on this topic » Hydrogen Fuel News

 

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"Do the Math" with Bill McKibben in Chicago

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RSVP to join Bill McKibben, Nov. 28th in Chicago. Click here to get your ticket now. "Do the Math" with Bill McKibben, Nov. 28th in Chicago. Dear Daniel, The math is terrifying: Dirty energy companies can burn no more than 20% of the known remaining fossil fuels on the planet, or else our climate is in a heap of trouble.1 That means we need to be taking on the powerful oil, coal and gas companies directly — whose profit model depends on burning up our planet. To keep our movement building and prepare for the next big fight, our friends Bill McKibben and 350 are going on the road with the "Do The Math" tour to lay out the terrifying new math of climate change, explain the odds we face and the difficult path we must walk in the coming years to create a livable future for our planet. They'll be in Chicago on Nov. 28th. Can you make it? "Do the Math" with Bill McKibben Athenaeum Theater, 2936 N. Southport Ave, Chicago, IL Nov. 28th at 7 PM, doors open at 6 Tickets are $10 Get your ticket to join Bill McKibben and "Do the Math" in Chicago "Do the Math" will be a unique and interactive experience, an opportunity to hear from Bill — possibly the clearest voice on climate change in our movement today — along with other special guests, about what we need to do in the fight going forward. With each passing month, and each passing extreme drought, storm and flood, it's clear that this fight is urgent and that President Obama isn't doing enough. If he's re-elected, we don't know what else, if anything, he will do. If Romney is elected, we know he will do his best to set us on an apocalyptic path of burning our future to fatten the pockets of fossil fuel giants. What we've learned from the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline fight is that when we band together we can take on the fossil fuel industry. Now it's time to take on the industry as a whole, and persuade our fellow residents of this planet that coal, oil and gas must be kept in the ground. Click the link below to get your tickets to join Bill McKibben Nov. 28th in Chicago: http://act.350.org/signup/chicago-do-the-math-credo/ Thanks for standing with us in the fight against climate change, Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. Bill McKibben, "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," Rolling Stone, July 19, 2012 © 2012 CREDO. All rights reserved. To remove yourself (Daniel Stafford) from this list, please visit our subscription management page at: http://act.credoaction.com/s?i=49478-2914033-dHRbfWx To change your email address or update your contact info, please visit: http://act.credoaction.com/subscrip/coa.html?id=49478-2914033-dHRbfWx

NAW: Q3 Wind Energy Deals Presage Impending Storm

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Wind Energy Investment Soars In Q3, But Market Braces For Uncertainty by NAW staff, Oct. 25, 2012 Venture-capital (VC) funding in the wind energy sector jumped to $57 million in six deals in the third quarter, compared to just $17 million in three deals in the second quarter, according to a recently released report from clean energy communications and consulting firm Mercom Capital Group. Disclosed VC deals [read more] Wind Power Sees Largest Consumption Jump Of Any U.S. Energy Source by NAW Staff, Oct. 25, 2012 Americans used less energy in 2011 than in 2010, but they consumed more wind power than in the previous year, finds a new report from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The decrease in overall energy consumption was due mainly to a shift to higher-efficiency energy technologies in the transportation and [read more] Marubeni Acquires Interest In 205.5 MW Minnesota Wind Project by NAW Staff, Oct. 25, 2012 Marubeni Corp. says it has completed a transaction to acquire an economic interest in a wind project owned by EDF Renewable Energy. Under the contract, Marubeni will acquire a 50% interest in the 205.5 MW Lakefield Wind Project, which is located in Jackson County, Minn. The project has a 20-year [read more] NextEra Energy On Track To Add 1.5 GW Of Wind Energy This Year by NAW Staff, Oct. 25, 2012 NextEra Energy is on track to add about 1.5 GW of wind energy to its portfolio this year, the company said in its third-quarter earnings announcement. NextEra reported a third-quarter net income on a generally accepted accounting principles basis of $415 million, or $0.98 per share, compared with $407 million, [read more] Windreich Sells 210 MW Wind Project To Private Equity Firm by NAW Staff, Oct. 25, 2012 Windreich AG has signed a deal to sell the 210 MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm, located in the North Sea, to an unnamed private equity firm. The project comprises 42 AREVA Multibrid 5 MW wind turbines and is worth over 1 billion euros, according to Windreich. The project is [read more] Mortenson Construction Opens New Office In Oregon by NAW Staff, Oct. 25, 2012 Mortenson Construction, a provider of construction services to the wind energy sector and other industries, has opened a new office in Portland, Ore. The company says that with several projects currently under way in Oregon, the office will be instrumental in helping to better serve its customers' needs. The new [read more] DOI Awards NRG Bluewater Offshore Wind Lease In Federal Waters by NAW Staff, Oct. 24, 2012 The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has awarded NRG Energy a lease for commercial wind energy development in 96,430 acres of federal waters located 11 nautical miles off the Delaware coast. The lease grants NRG Bluewater Wind Delaware LLC the exclusive right to submit one or more plans to [read more] New York Governor Reveals Details Of 'Energy Highway' Initiative, Including $250M For Renewables by NAW Staff, Oct. 24, 2012 New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has received the Energy Highway Task Force's blueprint, a comprehensive plan that will invest up to $5.7 billion to add up to 3.2 GW of additional electric generation and transmission capacity and clean energy generation. The Energy Highway initiative, which Cuomo introduced in his [read more] Mega Investors Urge Congress To Extend Wind Energy Production Tax Credit by NAW Staff, Oct. 24, 2012 Two-dozen investors with more than a combined $800 billion in assets under management have called for an immediate extension of the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC). In a letter delivered to congressional leaders, investors noted that the PTC creates broad economic benefits, both for wind power producers and their [read more] Chinese Court Schedules Hearing For AMSC-Sinovel Case by NAW Staff, Oct. 24, 2012 AMSC says that China's Supreme People's Court has scheduled a hearing for Oct. 26 for AMSC's cases against Sinovel Wind Group Co. Ltd. for alleged copyright infringement. The hearing relates to the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court's decision to reject Sinovel's request to dismiss AMSC's copyright-infringement case on jurisdictional [read more] Boulder Wind Power Using 3D Simulation To Develop Direct-Drive Generator by NAW Staff, Oct. 24, 2012 Boulder Wind Power (BWP) and Cobham Technical Services are collaborating on the development of a new permanent-magnet direct-drive generator. In support of the initial engineering studies conducted in early 2010, BWP says it chose to use the three-dimensional version of the Opera electromagnetic simulator from Cobham Technical Services' Vector Fields [read more] Utility Building Substation To Deliver Wind Energy Across Maine by NAW Staff, Oct. 24, 2012 Central Maine Power (CMP) has awarded a $980,000 contract to TRC Companies Inc. to provide design and engineering services, project management, construction management, testing and commissioning for the development of the Ludden Lane substation in Canton, Maine. When complete, the substation will connect the Saddleback Mountain wind farm to CMP's [read more] Manitowoc Debuts Boom Raising System At Maine Wind Farm Site by NAW Staff, Oct. 24, 2012 In Eastbrook, Maine, contractor Reed & Reed is using Manitowoc's new Boom Raising System to install 19 wind turbines at the Bull Hill wind farm. This is the first time that the Boom Raising System has been used on a job site, Manitowoc says. The 19 turbines at Bull Hill [read more] NRG Systems Offering New Power-Supply Option For Its LIDAR Remote Sensor by NAW Staff, Oct. 24, 2012 NRG Systems says it is offering a new power-supply option for its WINDCUBE LIDAR remote sensor for off-grid applications. The RP20TM solid oxide fuel cell features a proprietary tubular ceramic fuel-cell core that the company says ensures clean operation with no emissions of sulfur oxides and low emissions of carbon [read more] WKN USA LLC - Project Marketer & Originator, Project Developer To place an ad within WindJobs, contact Dave Mendelson at 1-203-262-4670 x248, or at mendelson@nawindpower.com   Please click HERE to subscribe to North American Windpower magazine.

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