This is a guest post by Yael Borofsky The nation’s leading research universities are calling on the Senate to ensure dramatically more funding for clean energy R&D in the Senate climate and energy bill, investments they described as necessary to achieve the bill’s targeted deep cuts in emissions. In a letter delivered to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid earlier this month, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of American Universities (AAU)

Oct. 27: Against a backdrop of solar energy panels in Florida, President Barack Obama awarded $3.4 billion in economic stimulus funds to projects aimed at modernizing the country’s power grid. Read more:  Video: Video: Obama backs smart energy

1538 The first university in the New World , the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is established. 1636 A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what will later become the United States, The President and Fellows of Harvard College , which will later be renamed Harvard University. 1868 Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, for an electrical vote recorder. 1914 The f

“President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation’s power grid. Touring a field of solar energy panels in west-central Florida, the president urged greater use of several technologies to make America’s power transmission system more efficient and better suited to the digital age. The projects include installing ’smart’ electric meters in homes, automating utility substations, and insta

Great intro by Hazel Henderson to developments in sustainable and socially responsible investing, green sustainability metrics, and the necessary overhaul of finance and business education. By Hazel Henderson : “Marking the 20th Anniversary of SRI in the Rockies offers more than an opportunity to review the hard-won progress of investors to prove that socially responsible investing is viable and now clearly out-performs traditional mainstream investing. Since the credit crises of 2008-

The state Farm Bureau is teaming up with its national counterpart to fight a  ”cap and trade” energy bill in the U.S. Senate. Like South Carolina’s Senator Lindsay Graham, Farm Bureau officials say the Waxman-Markey bill to cap emissions and re-assign areas of farmland will hurt business, in this case agribusiness. SC Farm Bureau President David Winkles and American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman signed caps to be delivered to Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint, for

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Soft Sailor President talks up clean energy in Fla., candidate in Va. WLOS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will be talking up clean energy technology today as he tours a solar power station in Florida. … Obama plans big smart grid announcement Reuters Obama targets power grid Pittsburgh Post Gazette Obama may have little sway in state’s clean-energy debate Sarasota Herald-Tribune The News-Press  - Tampa Tribune  - WWSB ABC 7 all 2

“Pushing for Energy Legislation, Obama Takes On Critics” (NY Times headline)The issue: Renewable Energy PolicyThe speaker: President ObamaThe location: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLink to the news story in the New York Times- Click hereLink to transcript of Obama’s speech, as released by the White House- Click herePresident Obama’s speech at MIT in Boston covered an array of energy-related topics from harnessing wind, water and solar power to nuclear disarmament. Toward the end of his r

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