I hope readers will check out EmpowerTheOcean, a new website I helped establish. The content for its main “news” page is written mostly by a very clever woman in the Northern UK, Emma Websdale; I think she does a good …
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Renewable Energy Internships Prove Fairly Popular
I have a few excellent prospects for summer interns in 2014, the latest of whom, a young man from West Virginia, just sent a resume and spoke with me on the phone this morning. Naturally, people wonder what this internship …
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Environmentalism Places a Burden on the Poor
Frequent commenter and colleague Tim Kingston sent me this piece about the burden that environmentalism places on the poor and asks: Are things really this bad in CA? I respond: Of course, a tax on our consumption of energy hits …
Electric Vehicles Are Not “Environmental Abominations”
Here’s another in a series of fairly sophisticated discussions on the LCA (lifecycle analysis) of electric vehicles versus internal combustion engines, showing the exact fallacies in the reports that conclude that EVs are worse for the environment. At the end …
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Coal-Fired Power Plants – Some Good News
The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility, is shuttering eight coal-fired boilers at plants in Alabama and Kentucky, and more reductions could be in store over the next few years. At issue, apparently, is the high cost of …
Good News on SolarCity’s Asset-Backed Securities
My colleague Stuart Smits, who’s all over the financial world as it applies to solar energy, just sent me this piece on SolarCity’s sales of asset-backed securities at 4.8% (far less than was expected), and wrote tersely, “A very big …
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Raising Capital for CleanTech Start-ups
The 2014 Clean Business Investment Summit (which we abbreviate CBIS and pronounce “C-Biz”) held its first planning meeting this morning. I’ve been proud of the role I’ve played here (member of the Board of Advisors) since I joined in 2010, …
St. Augustine and Sustainability
Yesterday was the birthday of St. Augustine (354 CE). I remember laughing out loud when I came across this in his “Confessions” (ca. 400 CE) in a “History of Philosophy” class in college: ‘What did God do before he made heaven …
A Couple of Thoughts on Transportation and Climate Change
I urge readers to check out today’s issue of “The Writer’s Almanac,” in particular the article on the anniversary of the first street car in New York City (in 1832). To me, it calls upon two important ideas, the first, …
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From Guest Blogger Paula: Good Reasons To Go Green In Home Cleaning
The benefits of the so-called “green” cleaning has long been discussed in certain society and professional circles mostly by people, who work for different cleaning companies and people who provide households and specialized businesses with a variety of detergents, but …
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