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City wind farm project will help train eco-engineers of future - A MULTI-million-pound wind farm has been earmarked for a site near York in a pioneering scheme which will help train future generations of eco-engineers.

Our new Energy Report confirms that all the world’s energy needs could be provided cleanly, sustainably and economically by the year 2050. Renewable energy is the way ahead. Fossil fuels like oil and coal could become relics of the past. And the sooner we start planning for that cleaner, greener world, the sooner it can be a reality....

Totnes in Devon might be the most forward-thinking eco settlement in the world. As fossil-fuel reserves dwindle and the economy contracts, will resident-led Transition Towns become the way that we all live?

Duncan Hames MP had the chance to see for himself the difference energy saving measures, made possible by the British Gas Green Streets programme, has made to Bradford on Avon when he visited three local schools on Friday 28th January. With an ambitious task to become carbon neutral by 2050, the Climate Friendly Bradford on Avon group...

Energy-Generating Flooring - Flashing dance floors could be just a start!!

Village halls in Elmley Castle and Hill and Moor have been fitted out with Photovoltaic (PV) panels which are generating electricity that, together with other green electricity from Green Energy UK, is helping to power everything in the shop and is also creating an income for local community initiatives. Elmley Castle Village Hall has...

A council is proposing to save money – and combat global warming – by heating a leisure centre and swimming pool using heat generated by the crematorium next door.

As the UK continues to tackle a record-cold winter, rural fuel poverty has become an increasing problem. Sustained rises in heating costs have lead to many people in rural communities struggling to keep warm in winter. For this reason, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has published a new guide to renewable energy sources...

President Obama addressed renewable energy briefly and early on in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night and unveiled a new U.S. clean energy challenge that said by 2035, "80 percent of America's electricity will come from clean energy sources."

A new study analyzing what is needed to convert the world's energy supplies to clean and sustainable sources says that it can be done with today's technology at costs roughly comparable to conventional energy. But converting will be a massive undertaking on the scale of the moon landings. What is needed most is the societal and political...