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Ontario Proposes Precedent-Setting Renewable Tariffs (Smarter Building Blog, Mar 12, 2009) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Citizen What is it? A blog post discussing Ontario’s planned system of renewable tariffs. Feed-in tariffs reward those who create more energy than they use and contribute it to the grid. Other tariffs will provide funds for building renewable technology [...]

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Must Be Green to Apply- Unless You’re not Green (Legal Planet Blog, Mar 13, 2009) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Citizen What is it? A cautionary blog that warns of possible consequences associated with the construction of new transmission lines to carry electricity from renewable resources. Since the renewable resources are intermittent, there will often be [...]

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The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption in the Nations Energy Supply, 2006 (Energy Information Administration, July 2008) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Institutional What is it? A graph that shows the percent contributions of different energy sources to the total amount of energy produced in the United States. Renewable energy is only up 1% from the [...]

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Green Energy Scores Big In Obama’s Stimulus Plan (NPR, Jan 27, 2009) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Mainstream Journalistic What Is It? An NPR story that describes the green energy components of Obama’s stimulus plan, and how the money is going to be put to use. Weatherizing homes, building transmission lines for renewable electricity sources, and [...]

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Bradley Clark, PhD (Interviewed Mar 12, 2009) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Stakeholder/Expert/Citizen What is it? A phone interview with Bradley Clark, a nuclear engineer who advocates using nuclear power for base load energy. Author: Josh Clark (No Relation) Support: Dr. Clark is an expert on nuclear power generation and speaks on behalf of nuclear power, [...]

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Ian Dean Interview (Mar 12, 2009) Ian dean is a stakeholder in the renewable energy debate just as all Americans are. He is a college student that owns a car, rents an apartment, and often rides his bike. He drives from Eugene to Ashland fairly often to visit his friends and relatives. Topic: Renewable Energy [...]

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Photovoltaic Cell and Module Shipments, 1998-2007 (Energy Information Administration, Oct 2008) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Institutional What is it? A graph showing the exponential growth in photovoltaic cell shipment. The tenfold increase over the past nine years is promising if growth continues at this pace, but if it levels off, solar could become a marginal [...]

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ExxonMobile’s Misleading Ad? (Produced by ExxonMobile, uploaded to Youtube Sep 2008 by unaffiliated source) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Institutional What is it? An ExxonMobile commercial claiming that we need to figure out how to power a growing world in an environmentally responsible way and touting natural gas as “one of the world’s cleanest fuels.” Author: [...]

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The Golden Promise of Wind (Flickr, July 2007) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Citizen What is it? A photograph of a wind farm at sunset. Photographer: Michael D. Menefee Accessed: Mar 12, 2009 Support: None. Audience/Agenda: Menefee is an amateur photographer, but he has one of the most popular photostreams on flickr. His nature photography is [...]

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Nuclear Sunset (Flickr, Jan 2009) Topic: Renewable Energy Category: Citizen What is it? A photograph of the Hameln-Pyrmont nuclear power plant billowing steam at dusk. Photographer: Yvonne Martejevs Accessed: Mar 12, 2009 Support: None Audience/Agenda: Martejevs is an amateur photographer who posts photos to her Flickr page. Although she is not a professional, Martejevs’ photostream [...]