Should we be optimistic about the overall future of humankind vis-à-vis energy and the environment? True, not too many people walk around pondering this question. Of course, stock market, weight loss, professional football, and our other present-day fascinations won’t mean …
Ideas in Conflict: “Limits To Growth” and “The Third Industrial Revolution” Read More »
Introduced by a mutual friend, I had a good talk earlier today with one of the East Coast’s top players in clean energy merchant/investment banking. Like us at 2GreenEnergy, her firm works hard to unite investors with the world’s top …
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In response to my post We All Wield Tremendous Power to Restore Environmental Justice, frequent commenter Robert Stang, an extremely senior player in sustainable real estate development, adds: I assume that you recognize the benefit of celebrating and having networks of those individuals …
Longtime 2GreenEnergy commenter Brian McGowan offers this note about the merits of a biodiesel business that is local to him in the suburbs of Philadelphia: Based on Craig’s description (of the term “sustainability), i.e., “We can all agree that sustainable …
As suggested here, the rabid anti-nuke people are meticulous in reporting every accident/mistake that happens around the globe. While it’s hard to object to any report that is based on the truth, I believe that these concerned and goodhearted people have …
As I wrote the other day, the concept of environmentalism in Western culture (or at least any real popularizing of the idea) is almost brand new. It dates to the mid-20th Century, and can be said to have begun with …
As more and more car makers seem willing to embrace hydrogen as the fuel of the future and start to increase investment in fuel cell technology, the issue of scarce refueling infrastructure becomes ever more pressing. Although automakers like Toyota …
I wrote a post recently in which I mentioned the Black Swan effect, i.e., the tendency of human beings to underestimate the importance and frequency of unforeseeable events in the future. This concept, popularized by Nassim Taleb in his 2007 …
We All Wield Tremendous Power to Restore Environmental Justice Read More »
Pessimistic articles on climate change like this one from yesterday’s New York Times always get me thinking: what can we be doing to cut back on fossil fuel emissions? Obviously this is a tough problem in a number of ways, principally …
Living here in the U.S., it’s easy to think that the rest of the world shares our state of delusion with respect to climate disruption, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and the many other environmental catastrophes that are unfolding all …
If You Want Some Good News in the Renewable Energy Arena, Look to Norway Read More »
