It appears that these folks at the American Energy Society are in the process of putting together a forum for energy professionals of all types to connect with one another, which, of course, is essentially what we at 2GreenEnergy have …
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Random People on Facebook Offer “Facts” on the Environment; Believe Them At Your Peril
I’m always amused when people on Facebook throw out “facts” that have no basis in reality. Where do they get the idea that they can make things up and people will believe them unquestioningly? I mean, it’s not like one …
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Jigar Shah on Clean Energy Jobs
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Jigar Shah, the founder of SunEdison, author of Creating Climate Wealth, and former CEO of Carbon War Room, the global organization founded by Richard Branson and Virgin United. And apparently, he …
A Contributed Post: Greener Printing–Should You Be Bothered About The Paper You Use?
Most people that use a computer also print out items on paper. In an office environment, documents and graphic items get printed on a frequent basis. As you can appreciate, a lot of paper gets used in those applications. The …
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Sustainable Seafood
The University of California at Santa Barbara has, arguably, the best and most robust graduate program in environmental science and management in the world. Called the Bren School, it offers masters and PhD degrees to extremely well-qualified students, and puts …
Words of Wisdom from Frederick Douglass
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it was on this date in 1838 that Frederick Douglass boarded a train to escape from slavery. Douglass, a statesman of amazing wisdom and courage, is best known to us today for these lines: “Power concedes nothing …
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Unfortunately, We Don’t Give a Damn
I volunteer on Quora.com to answer questions on renewable energy, and, even though I signed up for that specific category, I come across some really stimulating queries that are totally unrelated. Today, for instance, someone asked: What’s the weirdest aspect …
Cool Concept in Personal Transportation
If you believe that personal urban transportation has an important future (which I do), here’s a really clever design that looks safe, fun, attractive—and potentially cost-effective. Readers will note that I support a similar design (on the 2GreenEnergy “clean energy …
Why Some Smart People Endorse a Business-As-Usual Approach to Energy and the Environment
Reader Upgeya Pew offers a very plausible explanation for why Ian Bremmer, a person of incredible intelligence, could posit that one of the benefits of climate change is creating easier access to Arctic oil. Pew notes: Bremmer is well paid …
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Under What Circumstances Are Environmentalists Hypocritical?
In response to my piece on the Environmental Impact of Electric Transportation, frequent commenter MarcoPolo wonders, mockingly, how it’s possible that many EV advocates don’t own EVs. I suppose that, by extension, he’s implying that any environmentalists who doesn’t adopt …
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