Air pollution has been a pretty serious problem in China for the last couple of decades, as it has been undergoing a process of intensive industrialization. This process has resulted in a significant increase of the number of motor vehicles …
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From a Guest Blogger on Nuclear Energy: Godzilla, Fukushima, and Our Not-Quite-All-of-the-Above Energy Policy
Godzilla is returning. The 60-year-old monster is responding to the call of a world that is once again grappling with questions raised by the fearsome power of the atom. But while he was born to comment on the destructive capabilities …
Oil Exploration, the Amazon Rain Forest, and the Migration to Renewable Energy
Those of us who had hoped for agreements that would leave some of the Earth’s fossil fuels safely in the planet’s crust are a little less confident in the success of such arrangements today than we were last week, before …
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From Guest Blogger Dana: How to Make a Sustainable Home
Today most people are aware of the importance of trying to build an energy saving home. With all the pollution humanity is creating, with no signs of slowing down, it is up to the individual to do their part in …
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Sustainability and the Attack on Net Neutrality
I’ve asked a very large number of people who are concerned about sustainability if they are essentially optimistic or pessimistic that humankind will find a way out of its numerous dilemmas in which it finds itself: social injustice, the long-term …
Climate Change Denial and Anti-Intellectualism
Paul Krugman’s op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times gets at a point that I’ve been making off and on for several years: the anti-intellectualism that pervades a huge swath of our voter population here in the United States. Large numbers …
Those Whose “Hearts Are Open” See the Need for Clean Energy
The emcee at a dance recital I attended yesterday began by calling for the audience to observe a moment of silence to honor our fallen war heroes. “Please open your hearts,” he asked us as he closed his eyes and …
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Tagged with: clean energy movement, dependence on fossil fuels empowers evil people, economic success in the 21st Century, fossil fuel-based approach to energy will cause water and food shortages, global political destabilization, lung disease associated with the aromatics of coal-fired power plants, migration to renewable energy
Latest Marine Hydro Technologies at the Energy Ocean Show
Attendees at the Energy Ocean show in Atlantic City, NJ last week received a snapshot of some of the latest technology for extracting the energy from moving ocean water, and a glimpse into how all this is improving year-to-year. This …
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Cleantech Entrepreneurs: Check Out the NY Venture Summit
You already know that we at 2GreenEnergy remain hard at work in our quest to bring cleantech entrepreneurs together with the sources of investment capital they need to take their business concepts forward. You’re also aware that we’re certainly not …
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Solar PV on New Jersey Telephone Poles Is More Symbolic than Practical — But Symbolic of What?
I spent an uncharacteristically long time in the state of New Jersey last week, during which time I realized that, apparently, these people actually did make good on their threat to install little PV panels on each of 175,000 telephone poles. …
