According to legendary environmental activist Paul Hawken: “Environmentalism isn’t a way to GET rich; it’s a way to BE rich.” Having said that, we all need to manage our financial assets responsibly, and Glenn is quite helpful. We met in …
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2GreenEnergy on Instagram
I have to admit that I’m having a ball with these Instagram posts, in which I make a daily attempt to inform and inspire (mostly young) people via this social media platform that has become so incredibly popular. The one …
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How Much Do We Care about the Criminal Proceedings Being Initiated Against ExxonMobil?
Here’s the Scientific American article on Exxon’s conspiracy to suppress the vast knowledge they had in their possession as early as 1981 concerning the connection between fossil fuel consumption and climate change. It’s fascinating to see how this criminal investigation is …
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A Historical Look at Lighting Efficiency
Until the last quarter of the nineteenth Century, the use of electrical power had only a very few functions within American industry and commerce. However, with Thomas Edison’s invention of the first electric light bulb featuring a long-lasting filament in …
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People of Kindness Celebrate Every Win, Regardless of its Scope
Boston’s new ordinance banning the sale of dogs from puppy mills is just one of many thousands of local rules on the city’s books, and may therefore seem inconsequential. Looked at another way, however, it’s a statement that its people …
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Koch Brothers: A Routine Update
Every couple of weeks we like to provide a little update on what the Koch Brothers are attempting to pull off, often with a nauseating level of success, with respect to blunting the progress of renewable energy in favor of …
Why So Little Reaction in Response to Climate Change?
Commenter Gina Rozier writes in my response to our lack of response to climate change: It intrigues me what threats people react too and which ones they ignore. I remember reading a quote. Science says climate change is here. We …
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Nissan LEAF Losing Ground in the Electric Vehicle Space
Here’s an excerpt from this week’s Green Auto Digest, published by my colleague Jon LeSage: Plug-in electric vehicle sales were up substantially month-over-month and year-over-year – 17% over January and 6.7% over February 2014. The Tesla Model S, Chevrolet Volt, …
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How Certain Are We Of Climate Change?
When a climate change skeptic wrote: Climate models have crucial flaws making them useless, I wrote, “This idea lives on the outer banks of the remotest fringe of science.” At the end of his explanation, he cautions me in response: It’s very …
Breakthrough in Wind Energy?
A colleague in England, Gary Tulie, sent me this concept for extracting the energy from wind without a turbine. Here’s our conversation: Craig: Thanks for this, but aren’t you extremely skeptical? The wind blows charged particles apart from one another? …
