Snow loads addressed in joint work session - The Valdez Star

Valdez is nearing the end of its snow season, but memories of snow loads so large it required shuttering schools and some city buildings is lingering in the minds of elected officials...Over 12 feet of snow fell in December with another eight feet on top of that by mid-January.

Poll: CEOs identify affordable energy as the decade’s biggest business concern | Solar Power Portal

The polled-CEOs identified energy affordability, equality and social inclusion, sustainable and resource scarcity as the top three concerns facing businesses in 2012.

Met Office’s 250kW roof-mounted solar PV contract awarded to SunGift Solar | Solar Power Portal

The array, which will become one of the largest roof-top solar installations in the UK, will span the Met Office’s 150 metre-long Energy Centre. The system will be comprised of 1,000 solar modules and is set to generate enough green energy to meet the demand from one of the Met Office’s powerful new supercomputers.

350 Messengers | 350.org

[Pachauri] "As chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) I cannot take a position because we do not make recommendations," said Rajendra Pachauri when asked if he supported calls to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below 350 parts per million (ppm). "But as a human being I am fully supportive of that goal. What is happening, and what is likely to happen, convinces me that the world must be really ambitious and very determined at moving toward a 350 target."

Has the ‘greenest government ever’ given up on carbon budgets? | Left Foot Forward