I come across several articles each day that cause me to adjust my position on where we’re going as a civilization. Here’s one on BP, peak oil, and climate change that offers an interesting nuance, concluding with the following: As …
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BP, Peak Oil and Climate Change
Tagged with: aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, BP, global climate change, global warming, Naomi Klein, peak oil
Rick Barnett: Nearly 40 Years in Environmental Activism
I just got off the phone with long-time environmental activist Rick Barnett, who, in 1974, started off on what was to become a career of public service in the truest sense: working to bring people together to make the world …
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“Byzantine” Laws Regulate Electric Utilities
In response to my piece yesterday on the integration of renewables in the grid-mix, frequent participant Gary Tulie wrote a wonderfully insightful comment, underscoring my point that, considering the smallish presence of clean energy in the U.S., the intermittence of solar and …
Misinformation Campaigns on Renewable Energy, Climate Change
A reader writes in: Hi, Craig – I’ve been reading your blog for a while now. Thanks for what you’re doing. Also enjoyed your book, “Is Renewable Really Doable?” My question is this: how to counter the alarmist articles out …
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Tagged with: Acore, American Council on Renewable Energy, clean energy, coal-fired power plants, Dr. Peter Lilienthal, EnergyFactCheck.org, fossil fuels are safe, GHG emissions, Homer Energy, intermittent energy, Is Renewable Really Doable, Koch brothers, loss of biodiversity, lung disease, ocean acidification, Renewable Energy, Renewable Portfolio Standards, RPSs, solar energy, terrorism, Wind Energy
From Guest Blogger Clare Evans: Renewable Energy — You Can Make a Difference and Save Money at Home
There is a pretty big buzz surrounding renewable or ‘green’ energy at the moment. We’re all looking to do our bit for the planet – reduce our carbon footprint, lessen our reliance on fossil fuels, and help the environment – …
Tagged with: Renewable Energy
Does It Pay to “Go Green?”
Unfortunately, this week’s conference at UCLA — The Financial Implications of Going Green — featured a few “corporate commercials,” i.e., shameless, disingenuous (and dull) promotion of an organization’s work in becoming a better steward of the environment, with little or no value to the …
Capitalism with a Conscience
Here’s a video in which Bill Moyers talks about his friend Bernard Rapoport, business mogul, philanthropist, activist, and human rights advocate, who passed away last March. I have a fond recollection of Rapoport as well; I did a presentation to …
Paradigm Shift in Personal Mobility
At yesterday’s conference at UCLA — The Financial Implications of Going Green — I happened to sit in front of a graduate student in corporate sustainability – I forget the exact name of her program. When I asked what she was learning, she told …
Gateway Pacific Terminal Will Facilitate Coal Exports to China
Those of us who are concerned that our increased production of greenhouse gases is causing global climate change often point to the burning of coal to produce electricity as perhaps the single most disastrous phenomenon occurring in human civilization. And, …
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From Guest Blogger Steve Waller: 3 Factors Contributing to Our Colossal Food Waste
According to a report released last week by the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (referred to as IMechE) as much as half of all the food produced worldwide goes uneaten. This already astonishing figure is thrown into even starker relief …
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