New Zealand is the fifth most admired country on Earth (the list goes: Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands). It’s hard not to love a nation that seems to do everything right when …
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Sad Note: Founder of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Dead at 80
As I’ve mentioned, I’m one of more than 100,000 members of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, whose purpose is to promote its approach to putting a tax on carbon called “Carbon Fee and Dividend.” The organization was formed in 2007 by …
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China’s Schoolkids Beat American Students in All Academic Categories: Celebrating Our Failed Educational System
I often use this space to comment on the probable trajectory that the U.S. is likely to take in global competitiveness over the coming decades. And, though I normally look at this from a number of different perspectives, the meme …
Electrifying the Developing World Requires the Right Toolset
About half of the people living in Africa do not have access to electricity, and that 50% figure rises rapidly when we look outside the urban areas. This results in poor health, limited education, large, unplanned families, and low personal …
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“Marketing Speak”
In 1995 or so, following a very successful marketing program I had performed for Hewlett-Packard, my client spokesperson did a video testimonial in which he commented on the need to go outside his company’s own internal promotions team as follows, …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy–Reducing CO2 Emissions
Question: For how many consecutive years has Kansas managed to reduce its CO2 emissions? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is what happens when there is a rapid replacement of coal with wind. Bravissimo! …
Why We Support Authoritarians
As shown in this fabulous piece of animation, there are two main theories that address the tendency of human populations to stand behind authoritarian regimes, but they both revolve around how people behave when they’re threatened by some sort of …
Dubious Energy Storage Concept
Can energy be stored by pushing heavy stuff uphill? Of course. That’s what pumped hydro is, which represents over 95% of the utility-scale energy storage current implemented on this planet. It’s also what advanced rail energy storage (ARES) is, which …
Trump’s Deranged Rant on Wind Energy
I’m sure most readers are aware that the President of the United States went on an unhinged rant against the wind energy industry recently which, as could have been predicted, was littered with untruths.
Kauai Moving to Solar Power–in One Heck of a Hurry
Whenever I visit Kauai to see my mom, brother and sister-in-law, which happens a couple of times a year, I’m always impressed with this solar array, which is quite visible from the main road that encircles most of the island. …
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