LiveGaia – Holistic Living, Sustainable Life

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Right now I am up in Vermont enjoying it’s glorious natural beauty. Here incoming Green Mountain Power (GMP) CEO Mary Powell has announced a broad plan to drive the development of renewable energy sources, combat climate change, spur a [...]

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As well as the more well know renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydro there are other emerging technologies which may well form an important thread in the renewable tapestry. Newtonian science says that you can’t get more energy from something than the energy that goes in so technologies like this make scientists sceptical. [...]

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Solar power is in the process of really coming into it’s own as a financially viable solution to renewable energy needs. Solar cell and assembled panel production has been roughly doubling every two years beginning since the mid 1990s. Today solar photovoltaic appears to be firmly in a pattern of exponential growth and falling overall [...]

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Continuing the worldwide growth of wind energy Scottish and Southern Energy plc (SSE) has been granted consent to develop a 456 MW wind farm called Clyde in southern Scotland located between Biggar and Moffat. Costing £600 million [US $1.2 billion] project will be built in two phases, and is to be  The wind farm will [...]

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Al Gore speaking in Washington on July 17th laid down a clear and precise challenge for America to take a massive and necessary lead in transitioning to renewable energy. Don’t let anybody tell you this isn’t possible, it is totally possible if there is the will to do it. First there has to be change, [...]

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Wow, did I ever hit the nail on the head with that ingeniously creative comment. MIT engineers led by Marc Baldo believe they have found a way to use windows to collect solar power. The light is collected over the surface of the window and concentrated at the edges. This allows the costly solar cells [...]

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Projected Increase in Energy Demand from 2005 to 2030 India 142% China 119% Developing Asia 112% Middle East 104% Latin America 75% Africa 56% Russia 35% Transition Economies 33% N. America 28% Japan 13% EU 11% World Average 55% The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently revised upwards its annual forecast of worldwide energy demand in [...]

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