In response to my recent piece calling for an end to subsidies for the oil companies, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: Actually, while the oil subsidies – like the renewable subsidies – are terribly structured, they are defensible. Right …
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Are We Wealthy Enough to Address Our Environmental Issues?
Here’s a continuation of the discussion I’m having with a reader who doesn’t see the fairness in pulling together the money to feed the world’s people and preserve our environment. In a previous post, I wrote: I don’t accept your …
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The Economics Behind the Migration to Clean Energy
Today, back to back, I experienced two different sides to an important argument that I hope readers will find interesting. I had a meeting this morning with Richard Stuebi, a gentleman who’s been in and around the game of raising …
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Tagged with: energy efficiency, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fossil fuels, Gina McCarthy, internalizing the externalities, pricing in environmental issues, raising capital for cleantech start-ups, renewable energy will put people back to work, Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax, Richard Stuebi, sustainability of our civilization
Assessing the True Costs of Fossil Fuels
I’ve written so often on true costs of fossil fuels that I usually keep these posts short, at the risk of boring readers who have seen so much on the topic. In any case, the author of the article …
Will Environmentalists Engage in a Cost/Benefit Dialog?
Glenn Doty notes with sadness: What would be nice is if someone actually tried to nail down a rough estimate for the global net economic benefit, and the national net economic benefit, for different paced CO2 reduction strategies. The fact …
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Tagged with: Amory Lovins, black swan events, CO2 reduction strategies, Dr. Jason Scorse, Dr. Robert Pollin, environment, environmental lobbies, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels, Glenn Doty, global climate change, global net economic benefit, global warming, internalizing the externalities, Is Renewable Really Doable, Jeremy Rifkin, national net economic benefit, positive or negative feedback cycles in global warming, quantifying the economic benefit of “green” investments; advisors to the Obama administration, Rocky Mountain Institute, solar energy, The Third Industrial Revolution, What Environmentalist Need to Know About Economics, Wind Energy
A Sustainable Energy Policy Looks at Externalities
I just sat down over lunch with a printed publication to which I subscribe called the “Green Money Journal.” Fantastic stuff. I loved the lead article, “From Growth Capitalism to Sustainable Capitalism,” by Joe Keefe, President and CEO of Pax …
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Tagged with: coal-fired power plants, cost of lung disease, environmental damage, From Growth Capitalism to Sustainable Capitalism, global climate change, global warming, Green Money Journal, Harvard Medical School, internalizing the externalities, Joe Keefe, Pax World Management, resource depletion, socially responsible investing, solar panels, SRI, sustainable investing, thermal insulation
Restraining Those Who Wish To Profit at the Expense of the Rights of Others
A reader sent me this very clever article that was published in 1969 by Garret Hardin called “The Tragedy of the Commons” with a note that read, “Here’s something that I think might resonate with you.” I respond: Wow, that …
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Electric Transportation, Fossil Fuels, and “Internalizing the Externalities”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXd-xk-rCRU&w=445&h=364] Do you have a clean energy story that you’d like to tell the world? One day each month, I shoot a series of short television shows called the “2GreenEnergy Video Report” in which I interview folks with interesting stories …
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Tagged with: coal, energy-video, fossil fuels, gasoline, internalizing the externalities, oil, Paul Scott, Plug In America, video
Bringing Fairness to the Discussion on Energy
I was going through some old blog posts here at 2GreenEnergy in an effort to make sure that we’re emphasizing the most important elements of the discussion on renewables. One theme that is central to the conversation, of course, is …
