How will history remember Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers: climate champion or criminal?

Posted on May 1, 2013 by David Pomerantz

Jim Rogers has a choice between clean and dirty energy.

“We must move at ‘China speed’ to combat global warming.”

That’s what Jim Rogers, CEO of the largest utility in the country and one of the world’s biggest carbon polluters, Duke Energy, said once upon a time. Now Rogers, who has agreed to retire at the end of 2013, has seven months left to prove he meant it, and determine how history will judge his climate legacy: as a leader who helped start a clean energy revolution, or a polluter who told a nice story about global warming, but never acted to stop it.

That’s why Greenpeace and NC WARN, one of our allies in North Carolina, published an ad today in the Charlotte Observer challenging Rogers to stop talking and start acting, by directing his company to invest in solar energy, wind energy, and energy efficiency throughout the Duke Energy service territory. Continue reading →

Facebook and Google like, +1 clean energy in data center expansions

Posted on April 23, 2013 by David Pomerantz

The race to be the cleanest and greenest in our virtual world is definitely on. Facebook announced today that it is building another data center, a big one, this time in the windy state of Iowa, which currently leads the nation in electricity generated from wind with an eye-popping 25 percent! Continue reading →

7 Reasons the Environmental Movement is Winning

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Posted on April 22, 2013 by Cassady Sharp

From solar-powered emails to recycled cities, there are plenty of reasons to feel hopeful for our planet this Earth Day. Although protecting our forests, oceans and air is an endless job, we can also step back and appreciate all the really cool stuff going on all over the world thanks to people coming together and finding a better way. Big or small, these reasons all point to progress that is actually working. Continue reading →

Google grants more than $2 million for energy policy reform

Posted on January 15, 2013 by David Pomerantz

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Google has begun 2013 with announcements of two significant investments to advance the future of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States. Continue reading →

In search of a greener cloud: Google vs Microsoft

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Gary Cook

Microsoft wants the world to think it has its groove back – that it’s moved beyond the ignominy of the Mac vs. PC Apple ads, Windows 95 and Clippy, the helpful mascot everyone loved so much. Microsoft is looking to the cloud to change its old-fashioned perception, starting with its cloud-centric Windows 8 due out later this month. Microsoft has also made a lot of claims about how clean and green the cloud is, but is the Microsoft cloud still attached to a past energy era? We’ll try to answer that question in this article, and others to come, by comparing Microsoft to Google, one of its main competitors. Continue reading →