It’s the birthday of Ray Bradbury, best remembered for his 1953 masterpiece “Fahrenheit 451,” who said,”I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.” Love it! What a brilliant human being. Can’t help but remind us of …
Author: craigshields
Achieving Sustainability in Scotland
Long-time 2GreenEnergy support Bruce Wilson, contractor on eco-friendly buildings whom I’ve know since we were both five years old sent me this the other day: Hi Craig, I came across this on LinkedIn about the plans of the Scottish EPA to …
Tagged with: consuming fewer resources, Earth's capacity to support life, eliminating coal from the grid-mix, enforcing regulation is only one aspect of environmental governance, forward-thinking ways of reducing carbon, Scottish EPA to deal with their responsibilities with respect to Climate Change, the country on a per-capita basis consumes three times more resources than are available to each person on this planet
Power Consumption on Earth: We Need It Cleaner, But Do We Need More Of It?
A reader comments: A by-product of permanently reversing greenhouse gas emissions through technological means must be a massive increase in energy availability for all people. These two imperatives are connected and indivisible. I don’t see many comments about these important …
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Wine Tasting and Environmentalism
Here’s a pic of my financial adviser, Glenn Koach, along with his wife Yuko and my wife Becky (right). We enjoy a variety of activities together, though they normally include tasting wine somewhere. Which brings me to the point of …
Waste To Energy
Here’s a discussion on Quora.com that speaks to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, and why they are not ubiquitous. In addition to the NIMBY principle, which is severe, the real gating factor here is the presence or absence of regulations as to …
Talking Points for Craig Shields’ Interview with the Wall Street Business Network
One of my colleagues is trying to put together an interview for me with the Wall Street Business Network, and asked me to develop some “talking points” to provide an example of how this might unfold. I just knocked out …
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Tagged with: Clean Power Act, Climate Change, cost of renewable energy non-competitive, Is Renewable Really Doable, LCOE levelized cost of energy, long-term environmental damage, loss of diversity, ocean acidification, phasing out fossil fuels, PPAs (power purchase agreements), readiness and scalability of renewable energy, Renewable Energy Finance Forum, replacing traditional energy resources, RPSs (renewable portfolio standards)
The Future of Eco-Friendly Food
I had my first encounter with what could be called “eco-friendly superfoods” when a second-grade classmate, Phillip Stahl, brought a box of chocolate-covered ants and crickets to school, and everyone took a sample. I can still remember the resounding “eeewwwwww” …
Eco-Friendly Football Fields
Each week I receive at least 3 or 4 infographics that speak to environmental issues, and in most cases, I ask the sender to become a guest blogger and write something original while presenting the piece. Here I decided I …
More on Wealth Inequality
Here’s something I just ran across on Facebook that made me laugh out loud. Of course, one could say that it would be funnier if it weren’t true. Long before the Donald Trump phenomenon, we were talking here about how …
Hazards of the Language
I’m sure there are readers here who share my enjoyment of subscriptions to various “word of the day” emails. This week’s theme for “A Word a Day” is contronyms, i.e., words that have two diametrically opposed definitions. The word “depthless,” for …
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