California has always been at the forefront of environmental regulation innovation, with a wide range of environmental policy tools aimed at reducing the human impact on the environment and encourage the use of greener technologies. But now, it seems that …
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From Guest Blogger James Burbank: Little Green Things We Can All Do in Our Workplace
One of the most controversial questions in the entire field of sustainability and green living is whether the damage has been done and whether the climate change is irreversible. The author of this article is not someone who claims to …
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Overturning Citizen’s United–The Brightest Moment for Democracy Since the Days of Jefferson
I wrote earlier: Democracy is such a powerful idea that it appears capable of surviving even when the most powerful forces of Earth are trying so desperately to destroy it. It seems that this Monday, our leaders will have the …
U.S. Senate Could Vote To Overturn “Citizens United” – the Supreme Court Decision from Hell
Democracy is such a powerful idea that it appears capable of surviving even when the most powerful forces of Earth are trying so desperately to destroy it. It seems that this Monday, our leaders will have the opportunity to nullify …
Building Out Our Power Grid Means No More Curtailments for Wind Power
There are many reasons (eleven to be precise) that I believe the migration to renewable energy is happening far faster than most people understand. Thus, the name of my current book project: “Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why …
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Associated Press Report on Concentrated Solar Power Plant Includes Grossly Inflated Avian Mortality Numbers
Here’s a fairly noncontroversial statement: Those who publish alarming reports on unintended environmental consequences of cutting-edge renewable energy technologies have a responsibility to ensure their numbers are correct. Yet astonishingly, every major newspaper in the U.S. published the Associated Press’s …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: What Remedies Do We Have In Place When Our Power Utilities Betray Our Trust?
Question: Actually, this is a bonus “double question.” Earlier today the California Public Utilities Commission levied a fine against Pacific Gas and Electric, the power company that serves most of the northern part of the state and a bunch of …
Dirty Energy, Dirty Money: Universities’ Move To Divest from Fossil Fuels Rolling Along, But Encounters Bumpy Terrain
Here’s a video on the travails of the young people at Yale University (pictured) and their organization “Fossil Free Yale.” These folks are working hard to get their school to follow the lead of other top-level institutions like Stanford and …
Changing Paradigms in Transportation
I’ve often mentioned that car ownership, the defining paradigm of transportation in the 20th Century, may be on its way out. A great number of events are conspiring to make this happen—one of which is urban planning to support walking …
Renewable Energy and Crowdfunding
A friend sent me this piece earlier today on the concept of crowdfunding for renewable energy. In the main, I’m not a fan of crowdfunding in this space—for the same reason that VCs tend to avoid the subject: it’s capital …
