My colleague Jon LeSage offers this wonderful edition of his Green Auto Digest, summing up the progress that has been made in clean transportation in 2016, and speculating as to what we may expect to see in the coming year. …
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles: Time To Say Goodbye Read More »
Frequent commenter Silent Running writes this thing of beauty about the spirit of Christmas and the 2GreenEnergy community: “Christmas brings many different things and feelings to all. Your community includes and counts on your 2GreenEnergy site as an everyday blessing …
I’m not sure anyone, regardless of his political stripes, expects president-elect Trump to fulfill his promises re: the environment, if only because they are so blatantly self-contradictory. To simplify a more complicated issue, it’s (obviously) impossible to take care of …
There are lots of things in this world that have ceased to function properly, most notably a U.S. government of, by, and for the people. But there are still aspects of our culture that always come through, like the way …
An Amusing Look at the Difference Between Weather and Climate Read More »
Hate to say I told you so, but it looks like solar roads (i.e., roads paved with solar PV), are not going to get off the ground (pun intended). Of course, the experiment described in this article in Northwestern France, …
Every Christmas since we opened in 2009, I’ve written a hopeful little holiday message in the spirit of the season and the expectation of a bright New Year. At this point, however, I have to question the sanity, or at …
It’s so good to see that Dr. Robert Pollin, whom I interviewed five years ago for my second book (Is Renewable Really Doable?) is still hard at work at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), at the University of Massachusetts, …
Understanding the Impact of Renewable Energy on the Job Market Read More »
For years, we’ve been discussing the impact of wireless (inductive) charging of electric vehicles. The most obvious use of such technology is in buses and other automobiles that make routine stops in predictable places, e.g., shuttle buses that deliver passengers …
Here are two stories whose ultimate point is that pollution doesn’t stay in the place from which it was generated; it tends to spread itself around the globe. We start with the plight of Northern China, where the intensely thick …
The Pollution That Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas Read More »
With each successive cabinet nomination, it becomes increasingly clear how much damage the incoming administration is going to inflict on government departments on which 330 million people depend to add various forms of value to their lives–justice, environmental safety, health, …
