How Marine Spatial Planning Calms Choppy Waters
Getting everyone with a vested interest onboard early, rather than making others adjust to a new obstacle at sea, provides benefits for all involved.
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Wind Power
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Consistency Key to Renewable Energy Policy
A new report on funding renewable energy projects offers a primer on how policy decisions are best engineered to boost the industry.
States: Playing to Clean Energy Strengths
Index of Clean Energy Leadership finds Midwestern upstarts mixed among the usual suspects.
Noise Complaints Draw Opposition to Wind Farms
The health effects from wind turbine noise tell us interesting things about the way we hear things.
Clean Energy and the U.S. Handicap: One Man’s Story
On-again, off-again federal support cripples emerging industries in the United States, America's pre-eminent wind energy pioneer believes.
Locally Owned Wind Power: Quaint it Ain’t
The financial crisis is a blessing in disguise for community wind power, an underserved sector of the burgeoning U.S. wind industry. And turbines are giving old farms a second wind.
Balancing the Power of Offshore Wind
Fears that wind only provides power when it's blowing outside could be neutralized by drawing from a wide area — like the U.S. Atlantic coast.
More Power? No, More Empowerment!
Nobel laureate Walter Kohn is bullish on renewable energy but sees the answer to global energy woes as population stabilization through the education of women.
Let’s Get Wind Power Off the Ground
A new crop of entrepreneurs believes that wind power can and should take to the skies — literally.
Picking on Pickens’ Plan
The fossil-fueled portions of T. Boone Pickens' energy plan for the U.S. have had a rough ride.