Are you concerned with resource sustainability? Are you a firm believer in the need for renewable and alternative energy for the improvement and continued existence of life on earth? You wouldn’t be alone; this is an issue important to millions, …
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When we got up this morning, my wife asked me why I hadn’t written anything about the chemical spill in West Virginia, with all its implications, especially the fossil fuel industry’s scrupulous avoidance of environmental regulations, the horrors of the …
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If someone could explain this to me, I would be most appreciative: Apparently, two Ph.D.-carrying professors of physics at the University of Houston believe in the validity of “lunar solar power” (something that had escaped my notice altogether until just …
I was in the process of writing my post on sustainable forestry a few minutes ago, when the phone rang and an old friend/client called to get caught up. In the course of the conversation, he told me about an …
Last night I was lucky enough to have snagged a front-row seat to listen to a talk by John Perlin — author, lecturer, and consultant in solar energy and forest preservation. A physics scholar at the University of California at …
I follow the discussion on the financial site Seeking Alpha concerning the stock price of Tesla. On any given day when the market is open, there will be at least a handful of comments – some of them bullish, others …
I’m making some calls to the top microbreweries in the U.S., trying to get a read on the industry’s appetite (thirst?) for solar thermal heating, considering the enormous amount of energy needed to heat all that water, grain, hops, etc. …
When 60 Minutes was doing its fact-checking to support its viewpoint that clean energy is a dead industry, I wonder what they thought when they came across this little beauty: California (by far the leading state for solar energy) installed …
Last week I reported that I had gotten an email from Lisa Hoyos, who was quite ticked off with Disney, as news had recently broken to the effect that Radio Disney was promoting fracking and pipelines to kids in a …
Here’s a blog post by a brilliant young man, Sheeraz Haji, along the lines of what I wrote about 60 Minutes’ galaxy-sized blunder in its coverage of cleantech. His first point is probably his strongest: Cleantech is essential. It’s not …
