A year or two after the launch of 2GreenEnergy in the summer of 2009, I got an unexpected phone call from a guy who said, “Hello, Craig. You don’t know me, but I’m — (I can’t recall his name), an …
Author: craigshields
Trump: Success Via Outrage
Very few people are “on the fence” about the legitimacy of the Trump administration, and this, of course, is happening by Trump’s design, as he thrives on outrage. His supporters are outraged that their president is under attack from the …
A Sustainable Future Can Only Be Built on a Base of Compassion
A couple of days ago, I quoted someone who took umbrage at the Trump administration’s disdain for Puerto Rico and the appalling lack of compassion it showed for the 3000 people who died as a result of the fifteenth-rate response …
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Tagged with: sustainable future
Changing the Way We Generate Electricity
As the author here points out, the generation of electricity in the U.S. has changed, and it does vary widely on a state-to-state basis, which is both a blessing and a curse. If you are in Iowa, it doesn’t take …
Tagged with: blocking states' progress in environmental protection and the adoption of renewable portfolio standards (RPSs), coal to wind, generation of electricity, Koch brothers work tirelessly to perpetuate the consumption and fossil fuels, migration to renewables, Pacific Northwest hydro resources, phasing out dirty energy
Writing Should Be Powerful, But Real
As a guy who writes marketing materials for a living, I understand that if I fail to gain the reader’s attention, it doesn’t matter what I say because it’s going to remain invisible. Yet it’s just as bad, and possibly …
Tagged with: writing marketing materials
Understanding Trump
As readers are aware, I very seldom respond to frequent commenter MarcoPolo, as he is a professional troll of this and other environmentalist sites, and I don’t think it’s right to provide a place for his antagonistic and generally inaccurate …
Small Wins Count
Given the aggression with which the Trump administration is both rolling back environmental protection and killing anything whatsoever that came from the Obama era, it’s easy to assume that the damage they’re wreaking is going unchecked. Fortunately, that’s not the …
Powerful Writing on an Important Subject
Here’s something a gentleman by the name of Eleazar David Melendez wrote, expressing how and why he believes Puerto Rico’s death toll of about 3,000 from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 ought to be the biggest strike against President Donald …
Tagged with: President Donald Trump
We Want Public Transportation
“Socketwrench” here makes an excellent point. It’s ironic that the next new thing in transportation is the removal of the driver while preserving everything else, since this accomplishes very little of what we actually need, i.e., the means of moving …
Tagged with: public transportation
A Low-Carbon Future
A client asked me to read this report from mega-consulting form McKinsey, concerning pathways by which the four top CO2-emitting commodity-producing industries (ammonia, cement, ethylene and steel) can move to a low-carbon future. Here are a few comments:
