It will be seven years this summer that we’ve been covering the rapid migration from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Here’s yet another article that underscores exactly how profound this shift is, and how quickly it’s occurring. Meanwhile, US coal …
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Geothermal: Making Progress in Tough Terrain (figuratively and literally)
The most obvious feature of the current status of renewable energy generally is the plummeting cost of solar PV and wind energy. Yet, given this, it’s refreshing to see that geothermal is still very much a part of the mainstream …
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Heat Recovery Systems
From a colleague in Central Pennsylvania, the definitive eco-do-it-yourselfer Brain McGowan: Craig, I received this at the drain water heat exchanger place after I told them about what I had seen at the Energy Independence Day fair. I don’t know …
Cheery Little Instagram Post
Here’s tomorrow’s 2GreenEnergy Instagram post. Caption: Good things are happening all around us. For instance, did you know that, as you read this, there are more than 200,000 groups working hard to achieve their goals of environmental and social justice? …
A Quick Inventory of Good and Bad Trends in the U.S.
Where is the U.S. on the two most critical issues facing our civilization? Climate change: Congress rejects the agreements reached among 155 countries in Paris a few months ago, broadcasting to the world that the most powerful nation on Earth has …
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Trends in the Auto Industry: Will Car Ownership Soon Be Regarded as a Disease?
My colleague Jon LeSage has just published another edition of his Green Auto Digest, this one attempting to answer an important question: Why is Apple investing $1B in Chinese ridesharing giant Didi? Jon provides several good answers, some rather blatant, …
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Quick Note on Civil Disobedience
A reader had a tough time with my piece of civil disobedience and climate change. He writes: Don’t confuse the very important concepts of: public meetings; protest events; political lobbying, etc. with the obnoxious term “civil disobedience.” They are not …
Colorado Approves Substantial Tax Credit for Electric Vehicles
Colorado just became the state with the best incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles ($7,500 from the federal government plus $5,000 from the state = $12,500). Looks like Coloradans can legally get high and purchase EVs at a bargain …
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Is Civil Disobedience the Only Way Left To Fight Climate Change?
It sure seems that there is more civil disobedience re: climate change happening every month. You might want to Google the subject (see link above) and review some of the 607,000 articles online. I’m not saying that this can all be …
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Big Coal Mounts an Attack
From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Just weeks from now, NRDC and its allies will be fighting in the D.C. Circuit Court to defend the Clean Power Plan in one of the most important courtroom battles ever for our …
