{"id":17695,"date":"2013-09-09T19:57:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17695"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:15:00","slug":"climate-and-energy-items-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/climate-and-energy-items-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate and energy items of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/09\/06\/2584501\/pacific-island-nations-world-climate-change-arrived\/\"><strong>Pacific Island Nations Tell The World \u2018Climate Change Has Arrived\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cClimate change has arrived,\u201d and the world must act. That\u2019s the message from fifteen nations in the southwestern Pacific, who signed a statement yesterday calling on other countries to join them in \u201cthe urgent reduction and phase down of greenhouse gas pollution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/imageo\/2013\/09\/09\/with-climate-journalism-like-this-who-needs-fiction\/#.Ui5tP9_kD3x\"><strong>With Climate Journalism Like This, Who Needs Fiction?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Just go read the post)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/09\/09\/2587921\/hawaii-navy-clean-energy\/\"><strong>U.S. Navy Triples Clean Energy Startup Funding In Hawaii<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A clean energy seed money startup program in Hawai\u2019i will now have triple its existing budget courtesy of the U.S. Navy\u2019s Office of Naval Research.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Excelerator provides between $30,000 to $100,000 in seed money to clean energy startups in Hawai\u2019i. If a more advanced company wishes to create a pilot project on Hawai\u2019i and can raise $500,000 in matching funds, the program will supply a $1 million grant. Every summer, the program selects 13 businesses that have ideas related to: grid integration of renewable energy; bioenergy and transportation; and energy efficiency for built environment and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of companies apply for grants, but&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/dominion-virginia-wins-right-to-lease-ocean-tract-for-wind-farm\/2013\/09\/04\/b25f8afa-15aa-11e3-be6e-dc6ae8a5b3a8_story.html\"><strong>Dominion Virginia wins right to lease ocean tract for wind farm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plans for the first offshore wind farm in the region moved forward Wednesday when Dominion Virginia Power won the right to lease nearly 113,000 acres off the Virginia coast to generate power with wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>The utility outbid Apex Virginia Offshore Wind in a six-round auction held by the Interior Department, paying $1.6 million for the right to install wind turbines 27 miles off the state\u2019s coast. When completed, the project could provide electricity to about 700,000 homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Island Nations Tell The World \u2018Climate Change Has Arrived\u2019 \u201cClimate change has arrived,\u201d and the world must act. That\u2019s the message from fifteen nations in the southwestern Pacific, who signed a statement yesterday calling on other countries to join them in \u201cthe urgent reduction and phase down of greenhouse gas pollution.\u201d With Climate Journalism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/climate-and-energy-items-of-interest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate and energy items of interest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5021,1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4Bp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28481,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions\/28481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}