A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the launch of 2GreenEnergy almost exactly 10 years ago. From the perspective of solar, we saw: Lots of promise for solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP)
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Corporate CEOs Need To Be Held To New Standards
This is funny, but what’s truly at fault here is that corporate governance is necessarily about maximizing profit; these people aren’t at liberty to act otherwise. More correctly, if a CEO of a publicly traded company were to act otherwise, …
Dwight Eisenhower’s Worst Nightmare Has Come True
In response to this piece reminding us of Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex, my colleague, Plug-In America co-founder Paul Scott writes:
Effects of Global Warming Include….
When we think about climate change, we often consider the indirect effects of all that heat, creating things like droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, famines and the like, but we sometimes overlook the heat itself and its direct effect on the …
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Norway Takes Lead on Climate
Here’s a quick discussion with a reader surrounding this article: Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed. Craig: Great to see them leading the charge.
Climate Change and Probability Theory
Here’s another exercise for those who like to play with probability and statistics. In 139 years of record-keeping, this June was the warmest June ever recorded, but it also revealed something more troubling: each of the last five January through …
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Supporters of Environmental Sustainability Can Have Fun with Grammar
Of course, condescension like this isn’t cool, but it does have a certain comedic value. So, in that spirit: It’s time for a certain dumbass voting constituency to change its position vis-a-vis environmental sustainability. This is one of two statements directed …
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Why Trump’s Approval Rating Isn’t Falling: They LOVE the Guy!
There is some truth to the meme here, but, per what we see every day out there, most of his supporters love what Trump is doing. The rabble is thrilled that he’s making America Christian white male again, while punishing …
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John Paul Stevens, Proponent of Sustainable Democracy, Dead at 99
John Paul Stevens’ retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 was prompted by the high court’s decision in “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,” which freed corporations from federal limits on campaign spending, enabling them to use their immense power to …
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Prophetic Remarks on the United States in 2019
Dating back at least to Jules Verne, we’ve had science fiction that predicted the future with frightening accuracy. We all hope that the main themes of the 20th Century’s great dystopian novels like Brave New World, 1984, A Handmaid’s Tale …
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