http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Environment 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1319238.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1319238.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:37 EST With shrinking revenues and widening deficits, state lawmakers will be sharpening their budget axes when the Legislature meets in March. Odds are that they'll once again target Florida Forever, the state's widely praised land preservation program. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1137673.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1137673.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:53 EDT The pursuit of the sea's most fearsome predator remains for many the ultimate fishing thrill, but shark fishing is coming under pressure as shark numbers plummet worldwide. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/846750.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/846750.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:47 EST Florida electric companies would have to rely on an increasingly heavy mix of wind, solar and biomass to generate their power over the next 11 years, under a proposed rule state regulators voted to send to the Legislature late Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/844567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/844567.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:52 EST In the deepest of sweeping cuts to environmental programs, Florida lawmakers plan to ax the state's premier land-buying program, Florida Forever. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/568875.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/568875.html Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT With South Florida already setting summer heat records, power bills may set even higher records this summer. But Ken Fields, who lives in a three-bedroom, three-bath house on Miami Beach, has just installed a roof-top photovoltaic system and is dramatically reducing his energy consumption in a first step to going off the grid. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/544713.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/544713.html Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT A switch was pulled and the shelves of equipment murmured softly and turned on the lights. A house in Miami's Bay Heights quietly went off the grid and onto hydrogen power. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/253517.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/253517.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT South-facing small windows and Bahama shutters, light paint and a white roof offer clues to the character of this house within a hammock: It is a ''green'' home that proudly wears a photovoltaic system and thermal water heater on its roof and envelopes a 7,500-gallon cistern within its walls. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228883.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228883.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT Albert Harum-Alvarez, a software designer and consultant, grew up in Kendall and has spent years planning his home among the trees. Now under construction, it will catch the southeast breezes, use a geothermal pump for optional air conditioning, and employ a composting toilet system. Harum-Alvarez believes it's the greenest home in Miami-Dade County. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/228891.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT In Pompano Beach, the 27 Habitat for Humanity houses built or under construction on Northwest First Court are green, says Mary Lou Bowman Cubbin, architect and director of construction. The homes, designed to save energy costs and water for low-income families, feature double ceilings to cool air conditioning ducts, roof and soffit vents to ventilate attic space and R-30 ceiling insulation, more than the R-19 required by code. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/1303484.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/1303484.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Florida Power & Light is getting $200 million in federal stimulus money to provide more than half its customers with ``smart meters'' over the next two years to help them lower their electric bills, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/1302367.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/1302367.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:02 EDT Florida is getting $200 million in stimulus money to create a ''smart grid'' for utility customers that should result in lower electric usage, government officials announced Tuesday morning. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/1249403.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/1249403.html Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:12 EDT FPL Group and Duke Energy said Thursday they plan to begin switching their company cars and trucks to plug-in hybrid vehicles or all-electric vehicles starting Jan. 1 to help cut greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/854871.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/854871.html Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT With little fanfare, hundreds of millions of dollars are flowing annually into Latin America, cleaning up city garbage dumps and country animal manure, financing hydroelectric dams and doing away with coal-burning power plants -- thanks to a foreign-aid program that goes by the name of Kyoto. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/492423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/492423.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:44 EDT State regulators Tuesday approved Florida Power & Light's request to build two new nuclear reactors and opened the door for the utility to start charging customers for the multibillion-dollar investment as early as next year -- even though the reactors won't be finished for a decade. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/492433.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/economics/story/492433.html Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:48 EST In a simmering feud among major players in the power industry, eight utility executives, including Lew Hay of FPL Group, have politely but firmly told their own national trade association to fix exaggerations in a study intended to warn Congress about the cost of fighting global warming. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/conservation/story/301693.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/conservation/story/301693.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:17 EDT Tangelia Sands watched Ario Lundy build affordable houses in her Liberty City neighborhood for several years, admiring them from afar. Next month, she and her four children finally will move into one of those homes. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1155678.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/resources/story/1155678.html Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:00 EDT You're probably familiar with some of the federal government's 2009 incentives for home energy efficiency -- heftier tax credits for solar panels, solar water heaters, geothermal heat pumps, heavy-duty insulation, windows, air conditioning and the like.