I’ve had numerous productive conversations with Brian Nordwall, the proprietor of Seattle E-Bike, a company with a very bright future. Because my business background is more in the business-to-business space, I tend not to know as much about consumer products, …
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Hydrokinetics and Wind Energy Technologies
I just got off the phone with a fellow trying to raise investment capital for these guys. I bring this up not to ridicule anyone, but to make a point about the energy industry. The main technology featured here is …
Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” Public Education Campaign Is Just the Start
What the Sierra Club has done with its “Beyond Coal” campaign is pretty impressive, making a huge swath of the American public aware of the health and environmental issues associated with coal-fired power plants – not only their CO2 emissions, …
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Tagged with: Bernie Sanders, coal-fired power plants, Mitch McConnell, Shaun McCutcheon, Supreme Court
From Guest Blogger Sanjay Bowry: How Renewable Energy Solutions can Help British Businesses Save Money
“As the nation continues to suffer from rising energy prices, businesses with high energy needs are being put under even greater pressure by their ever-increasing energy overheads. Thankfully, renewable energy solutions are helping these businesses fight back in the battle …
From Guest Blogger Tom Grant: How North Carolina Residents are Building a Sustainable Living Environment
The climate on planet Earth is changing; there is no denying this fact. It might remain up for debate the extent to which human actions have accelerated the changes occurring in the climate today, but it is clear that actions …
Human Rights, Environmentalism, and Global Climate Change
One way to analyze the political spectrum, normally thought of as “conservative to liberal” or “right to left,” is to look at our conception of human rights, i.e., what we believe to be the set of basic and inalienable rights …
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Energy from Coal Is Not Going Away
I know I have a tendency to carp about dozens of issues: Chevron in Ecuador, the lack of an energy policy in the U.S., certain senators who don’t know the difference between methane and carbon dioxide—and others who use certain …
Tagged with: Chevron Corporation, Climate Change, climate change mitigation, energy policy, Middle Ages
2GreenEnergy and the Huffington Post?
2GreenEnergy has a new relationship with a publicity company down in Los Angeles called Jones and O’Malley. Terrific folks. They’re trying to get me a gig as a blogger at the Huffington Post, and, to that end, I just submitted …
New Wrinkle in Chevron/Ecuador Case
I know many readers are following the Chevron/Ecuador case, in which the oil giant has been ordered to pay $18 billion to clean up the environmental catastrophe they deliberately caused while operating as Texaco in the 1960s – 1990s, and …
Needed: “Goldilocks” Approach to Renewables
Obviously, the world cannot simply turn off its fossil fuel-based power plants overnight. What can and must happen, however, is that each country take an inventory of its energy situation: current grid-mix, renewable resources, unemployed labor force, national wealth and …
