I am a big fan of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens; here’s the post I wrote in gratitude for his service when he left the bench six years ago. Fortunately for us all, Stevens lives on, enabling …
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Making Tough Choices Re: Fossil Fuels
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
Rethinking What We Mean By “Great” Americans
To anyone wishing to know why Andrew Jackson’s image should be removed from U.S. currency, I refer this note in today’s Writer’s Almanac:
Will Divestiture Affect the Oil Companies?
A reader notes: The share price of oil companies has been more affected by the low price of oil due to oversupply than any “ethical” investor movement. Yes, that’s been true thus far. But does the future always look like …
Validating Claims Re: the Environment
How many times have you wondered about the scientific evidence behind the many competing claims that are made concerning climate change and other environmental issues? Now there is a team of fact-checkers whose job is to debunk claims and present …
Got a CleanTech Business Concept? Send It Along
It’s about time for me to re-offer a free service that I’ve been delivering happily for the last seven years: business plan evaluation. Suppose you have an idea for a cleantech business—anything in renewable energy, electric transportation, smart-grid, energy storage, sustainable …
Happy Birthday, Rachel Carson
It’s the birthday of Rachel Carson, the person perhaps most responsible for creating the modern environmental movement, with the publication of her book “Silent Spring” in 1962. It’s a great reminder of how a single person can change the world …
Exxon and Climate Change: Does the Criminal Case Have Merit?
A reader explains how the criminal case against ExxonMobil (for covering up the truth about fossil fuels and climate change) has no merit, partially on the basis that Exxon shareholders are happy right now. Yes they are, but it’s not …
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Government Subsidies for CleanTech: Two Competing Views
Writing on government subsidies for cleantech, a reader notes: taxpayers get stuck with inefficient, inadequate and inappropriate technologies, which government agencies support for political and ideological reasons. This suppresses and discourages R&D for potentially superior technologies. Let’s begin by admitting …
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The Trump Plan on Energy and the Environment: You Don’t Want to Hear It
Here’s some apocalyptic stuff for your Friday morning: an article from today’s New York Times entitled: Donald Trump’s Energy Plan: More Fossil Fuels and Fewer Rules, explaining his plans to add jobs in coal mines and cancel the Paris climate …
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