I often write about the importance of young peoples’ contributions to planet Earth’s environmental solutions. I’ll be long gone from this planet before the final tapestry here is woven, but with the enthusiasm of people like Jason Silva, featured in …
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From Guest Blogger Christopher Austin: Recycled Eco-friendly Entrance Mats
Entrance mats are extremely beneficial for people’s homes and businesses. They provide floor protection, safety, bacteria regulation, dirt control, and may even spice up the décor of a dull room. These rugs are meant to protect floors made of different …
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From Guest Blogger Jordan: A New Start-Up Offers Gas Insurance for Those Fearing That Gas Might Go Up Again
Drivers were certainly very happy when gas prices fell well under $3 per gallon in late 2014, hitting a four-year low, but most auto industry observers, along with many car owners, were well aware that sooner or later, the time …
From Guest Blogger Izzy: Teach Children Green Habits for Life
New parents know that their is a long road ahead in terms of teaching their kids right and wrong. Educating them on what to do, and not what to do, is a difficult task to begin with, but there are …
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Poland: Installing Wind and Remembering Chopin
It’s highly unlikely that anyone anywhere will ever forget the great Frederic Chopin and the incredible music for the piano that he left us. It’s even less likely that anyone in Poland will ever forget him. I was in Warsaw …
BioFertilizer and BioGas from Animal Waste
Here’s what I’m submitting for this month’s “Craig Shields–Clean Energy Deal of the Month” at the Hedge Connection, a website that brings together hedge fund managers with investors/allocators. I did a webinar a while back with these folks, and I’ve …
Let's Start with a Progressive National Energy Policy and Go From There
A reader asked what I would do if I were elected to public office, by which I presume he meant: what would I do if I had unrestrained power to implement anything I want. First, let me say that I …
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Tagged with: advanced nuclear, decommission coal plants, electrifying our transportation, incentives for energy efficiency and renewables, level playing field for renewable energy, Master Limited Partnerships, migration to clean energy, national energy policy, overturning the U.S. Supreme Court “Citizens United”, phase-out of fossil fuels, R&D work in renewable energy, removing subsidies for fossil fuels
Nuclear Energy: Where Is It Going?
It’s hard to predict what will happen to the nuclear industry. Taking a broad view, nuclear energy is both absolutely vital to low-emissions world and completely taboo even to discuss.
Deadly Heat Wave in India
It’s childish to say that individual weather phenomena are the result of climate change; anyone with the brains of a turnip shudders when one of our store-bought senators offers a snowball as evidence that the Earth has not warmed. Having …
Wind Energy Comes to Iowa—Corn Farming Not Impeded
Because I watch so little commercial television, I tend not to see advertisements—even the good ones, like this piece for Siemens and the success they’re having with wind energy in our (quite breezy) state of Iowa. Until now, Iowa was …
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