Eminent American political scientist Ian Bremmer is an incredibly impressive guy when it comes to looking at the world at the macro level. When I Googled what he thinks about climate change just now, I found this incredible piece—which I’ll discuss …
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Ian Bremmer on Climate Change
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Sustainability: Young People Actually Care About This Stuff
When I speak in public about the macro trends associated with sustainability and the environment, I always mention the importance of the huge generational differences that exist regarding this topic. In general, young people are far more interested in environmental …
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From a Guest Blogger: Solar Panels–How Much Do They Cost in the UK?
With the ever rising cost of energy, increasing numbers of home- and business owners are considering making the switch to solar power. Their reasoning is that once the original cost and installation is paid for, they get free energy from …
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Geothermal Provides Clean Power To Nations Wishing To Escape Diesel’s Costs and Emissions
From the perspective of energy, everything you need to know about the French-owned island of Guadalupe in the Caribbean is that it’s making terrific progress in replacing its legacy power resource, diesel, with geothermal. The world leader in geothermal, Ormat …
The Dalai Lama: A Powerful Force for Good
It’s the birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, who, IMO, is rivalled only by Pope Francis as the most effective person on this planet at influencing our civilization for the better.
From Shell Oil: Green Finance Database
A long-time subscriber the clean transportation sector writes: Craig: Maybe you can draw some ideas from this concept for a green finance database initiative, aimed at helping environmental start-ups. Thanks. I played around with this a bit, and entered some …
Happy 4th of July, America!
It’s Independence Day here in the U.S., and here’s a quick reminder of an important concept: Real patriots are those who uphold America’s core values. OK, so what are these values, exactly? Well, at a minimum they include:
Robo-Consumerism Is Incompatible with Sustainability
Commenter “Rob K” offers a good insight into the ever-escalating struggle between consumerism and environmental stewardship: Car manufacturers “stage” development of cars so that the “next” models would look “cooler ” and technologically more advanced. It is not beneficial for …
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The Eco-Transformation of Papua New Guinea
I thought folks may be interested to read about a very unusual and wide-ranging project that is proposed to transform Papua New Guinea into a virtual beehive of eco-friendly commerce. I’ve known Luimack Johnson for several years now, and he …
Bucking the Tide in Small Wind
Although I’m bearish on small wind generally, I have to say that I’m impressed with the work that my friend Dan Bates, CEO of WindStream Technologies, has done in this space; I hope you’ll check out the video linked below. …
