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UCSD Named No. 3 as One Of the Country’s Coolest (Green) Schools

In time with the opening of the 2011-2012 school year, the Sierra Club released the names of the United States’ “Coolest Schools,” universities and colleges that execute the most notable actions to solve climate change issues and promote sustainability.

The list, released for the fifth time this year by the San Francisco-based grassroots environmental organization through its magazine Sierra, named the University of Washington in Seattle as 2011’s top green school.

Read entire list at: http://www.ecoseed.org/living-green-article-list/article/6-living-green/10890-sierra-club-names-%e2%80%98greenest-coolest%e2%80%99-schools-in-u-s

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Solar Customers Protest SDG&E Proposal – Video

watch the video at: http://www.nctimes.com/solar-customers-protest-sdg-e-proposal/vmix_72d76386-aaa8-50a8-888a-5991d1bc410c.html

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SDG&E’s Solar Rate Plan Sidelined

State regulators on Wednesday turned down a proposal to charge solar customers substantially more for their use of the distribution grid, citing possible inconsistencies with state law.

The ruling on behalf of the California Public Utilities Commission sent SDG&E back to the drawing board as it seeks to recover more infrastructure costs from customers who generate their own electricity but still use the grid. California’s two other investor-owned utilities, Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric, filed as interested parties to the case.

The underlying issue of who pays for infrastructure costs as more utility customers generate their own energy from the sun, wind and other renewable energy sources could eventually wind its way to the state legislature.

Read more: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/18/regulators-reject-new-charge-solar-customers/

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