Support of HR 3525 would dramatically help PACE-type program create jobs and reduce energy use across the country. Please support this important legislation.

Copenhagen Denmark: UNFCCC COP15 conference: Sonoma County Water Agency directors Paul Kelley and Valerie Brown make a presentation to Climate and Energy funders group about the Applied Solutions Coalition. See video at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRxPcdOTiBc
Watch Video presented at that meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJB1AGSg2Y

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The development of using recycled water for energy storage and geothermal applications both consumer and commercial is gaining in popularity, particularly as energy and sustainability issues increase.

Social networking and website collaboration are an effective tool in developing new strategies on energy use, water conservation, and other modalities.

Resource Dynamics: collaboration and communication tool to bring together ideas and showcase integrated carbon reduction projects of public agencies and private partners from various regions.
Public partners: Cities and Counties in New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, North Carolina, Louisiana, California, Iowa and Colorado.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL Research Library) provides technical consultation and support including systems modeling and carbon data visualization.

This website makes use of new technology developed by scientists at the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory. By monitoring the words typed in a blog or discussion entry, the application extracts keywords to use as search strings in an electronic database of articles, people, and other web objects. Search results are posted real-time as the author completes sentences. In this way, the author (and later readers) can learn about information, resources, and people that relate to the topic.

In the face of rapid increases in global energy use, especially as developing countries build infrastructure and urbanization expands, it is essential to develop an understanding of interrelationships among climate, energy, environment, water, economics, and social systems and how these systems respond to perturbations and reorganize after change—that is, their resiliency. The solution to two interconnected global challenges of the 21st century, mitigating the impact of climate change and managing increasing energy demand, require a combined solution framework provided by system dynamics.

This is an example blog post. Solar energy refers to the utilization of the radiant energy from the Sun. Solar power is used interchangeably with solar energy, but refers more specifically to the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either by photovoltaics and concentrating solar thermal devices, or by one of several experimental technologies such as thermoelectric converters, solar chimneys or solar ponds. Solar energy and shading are important considerations in building design. Thermal mass is used to conserve the heat that sunshine delivers to all buildings.

This is an example blog post. A thermal power station is a power plant in which the prime mover is steam driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser; this is known as a Rankine cycle. The greatest variation in the design of thermal power stations is due to the different fuel sources. Some prefer to use the term energy center because such facilities convert forms of heat energy into electrical energy.

This is an example blog post. Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, propane, butane, and pentane—heavier hydrocarbons removed prior to use as a consumer fuel —as well as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide.[1] It is found in oil fields (associated) either dissolved or isolated in natural gas fields (non-associated), and in coal beds (as coalbed methane). When methane-rich gases are produced by the anaerobic decay of non-fossil organic material, these are referred to as biogas.