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The Quantified Urban Environment

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/09/2013 - 3:31pm.

The City of Oberlin, Ohio is the home of a revolution for environmentalists and citizens everywhere. You can now visit a website and see the city’s energy and water consumption habits in real time, and even zoom down to municipal buildings. Interested or concerned taxpayers, for example, can soon be able to check to see whether the Mayor left the lights on overnight. Business can run friendly competitions with each other over who is greenest, and all this information is updated in real-time and as available as if you were friends with the city on Facebook.

Energy Stars

Submitted by Conor Bambrick on Wed, 04/24/2013 - 1:09pm.

New York is planning for a clean energy future.

Don’t Call It a Comeback

Submitted by Conor Bambrick on Wed, 03/27/2013 - 2:10pm.

Starting in February, customers of New York State Electric & Gas, a utility serving a large portion of upstate New York, began seeing a special charge on their bills.  It amounts to roughly the same amount they are sending in to fund the state’s energy efficiency and renewable power programs.  This “Reliability Support Services” fee is solely dedicated to what has thankfully become a rare source of power here in the Northeast.  For the next year, NYSEG ratepayers will be subsidizing the operations of the Cayuga Generating Facility, a coal-fired power