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Solar Having a Really Good Year!

jackson published on July 21, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .


Peak Oil! Doom and Gloom! Petro Sadness! War of the Wells!

So much noise.

Meanwhile, in a quiet antechamber off away from the main stage, the solar power movement has grown massively in scale, all the while increasing in efficiency and decreasing in price.

It seems that everywhere one turns these days, there’s great and encouraging news about solar power. Solar power breakthroughs and milestones are had and overcome with such regularity, that keeping on top of it has become a bit daunting.

And what a wonderful predicament to be in!

So much good news it’s hard to keep track of it all!

Look at all of this wonderfulness:

Treehugger: Solar Industry Growth Prediction: US Largest Market by 2011

CNN: Unique business aims to spread solar power

MarketWatch: SolarCity Offers San Francisco Residents Solar Power for Less than Their Electricity Bills

Wall Street Journal: GT Solar a Bellwether for ‘Green’ IPOs

Seattle Times: Local schools shining light on solar panels

Reuters: Solar panels get aesthetic designs

Energy Exec: Record growth in renewable energy systems

And here’s the crazy thing, all of these news items are six hours old or less.

Every single day brings a tidal wave of encouraging news just like this.

It’s simply impossible not to be excited and optimistic.

Love to all,

Team SuperForest


NY Times: Florida to Buy Sugar Maker in Bid to Restore Everglades!

jackson published on June 24, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .


(photo via flickr user acmelucky777)

OMG!

This is wonderful, inspiring news!

The state of Florida has worked out an agreement with U.S. Sugar that will allow the sugar producer to continue operating for six more years, and then…

Allow the land to return to its natural state!

Looky!:

“LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. — In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the country’s history, a plan for the state to buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corporation.

Joe Skipper/Reuters

Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, with Robert H Buker Jr., the chief of U.S. Sugar, held up an agreement struck between the state and the sugar producer.

The intention is to restore the Everglades by restoring the water flow from Lake Okeechobee, in the heart of the state, south to Florida Bay. That flow had been interrupted by commercial farming and the Everglades have suffered as a result.

Under term of the tentative deal, U.S. Sugar would continue farming and processing for six more years before closing the business and allowing 187,000 acres of land to return to its natural state. For its part the state would pay U.S. Sugar $1.7 billion.

Governor Charlie Crist said the deal was “as monumental as the creation of the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone.””

187,000 acres of land! That’s approximately 2,200 Disneylands!

Plenty of room for ‘gators, and birds, and snakes, and all manner of wildlife to move back in and get to work setting things right.

What deliriously wonderful news.

Here’s the original article.

And a huge thanks goes out to the NY Times, U.S. Sugar, Governor Charlie Crist, Robert H. Buker Jr., and the good state of Florida.

You’ve made our night, y’all.

Have an excellent evening.

Love,

Team SuperForest