I hope you’ll check out the trailer (below) to the upcoming movie on climate change mitigation and environmental stewardship more generally. If nothing else, Gore’s right that this is an incredibly exciting and important time to be alive. Think about …
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Fighting for Environmental Protection
Though we tend to think of current-day U.S. politics as being the most contentious ever in our history, that’s not the case. There have been many such periods, starting with the American Revolution itself, in which 70% of the colonists …
Trump Administration Brings Both Winners and Losers
As Donald Trump promised it would, his presidency has been a considerable boon to Big Oil; in fact, the entire fossil fuel industry has enjoyed a huge reprieve from its slow but steady path towards obsolescence as a result of …
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England Wants To Know What’s Up with Americans
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie writes from his office in Buckinghamshire (near London–pictured), England: Hi Craig. I hope you and your family are in good health. I can see you are busy writing about renewable energy, and against the current extremes …
A Contributed Post: Renewable Energy & A Greener Way to Heating
In the United States, sustainable heating is growing in importance. It’s important from both a financial and environmental perspective. Below are a few facts around renewable energy in the US: By 2050 renewable energy could provide up to 80% of …
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Why Rural Alaska Is Integrating Lots of Renewable Energy
According to this article in Scientific American called What Rural Alaska Can Teach the World about Renewable Energy, “Remote communities have integrated renewables into their diesel-based power grids with more success than anywhere else.”
New England Journal of Medicine: The Trump Administration and the Environment
Here’s a short, readable article with terrific graphics in the New England Journal of Medicine that makes a number of important points, all centering around a single idea: building public policy around actual science is a really good idea. Case …
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Looking Beyond the White House for Strategic Planning in Clean Transportation
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his Green Auto Digest: The Trump administration is keeping the president’s campaign promises supporting fossil fuels and pushing back on clean energy and efficient, clean transport. The State Department’s approval of the Keystone XL …
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Another State Increasing Rates on Residential Solar
2GreenEnergy frequent commenter and all-around cool guy Brian McGowan sent me this article on the push-back that residential solar users in Northern Texas are receiving from their power utility. I respond: Well, at a certain level, all this is business …
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The Cost-Effectiveness of Renewable Energy: Will It Win the Day?
I wish there were a way to spin this article in Forbes as exciting “new news,” but it’s been totally obvious now for several years: the plummeting costs of solar and wind energy is in the process of making everything …
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Tagged with: Cost-Effectiveness of Renewables, Earth’s energy supply will come from its nearest star, incredible wealth and power of Big Oil, Job growth in renewable energy, More renewable power is added to the grid-mix each year than from another other source, plummeting costs of solar and wind energy, rapid migration to clean energy, Shell Oil
