Needless to say, all of us here in the U.S. are glad that the 2012 election is behind us and that we no longer have to deal with the incredible level of rancor and lies that were embodied in the …
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The Turimiquire Foundation Addresses Sustainability
It’s that time of the year when we all start thinking about holiday gift-giving. I had a Jewish roommate in college, a funny but ornery character, who summarized Christmas as “crass commercialism.” Though I was raised a Presbyterian, he didn’t offend me …
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Conference of Parties Takes on the Kyoto Protocol
I just got back from a short hike with a friend during which we discussed the status of some of the world’s largest countries vis-à-vis renewable energy. This, of course, reminded me that we’re headed into another Conference of Parties …
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Celebrating Global Non-Profits that Advance Sustainability
Here’s a post that I just put on RenewableEnergyWorld.com, in which I congratulate Meg Cichon, Associate Editor, for her wonderful article on global sustainability. In my piece, I took the opportunity to point out that, in addition to all the …
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It's a Small World in Renewable Energy
I had a Skype chat yesterday with a well-heeled investor/entrepreneur in Dubai whose family has numerous business operations in Africa and the Middle East – including Pakistan, the country in which one of my favorite projects is located. Readers may …
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Clean Energy on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Uncertain
The enemies of renewable energy are having a field day all over the world. Here’s an article about clean energy in the UK, and how it’s getting pounded with the same hammer that it is over here, i.e., uncertainty: removal …
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Renewable Energy Technology Improving Performance, Reducing Costs
Here’s some good news in the photovoltaics world: the first about a new record in solar efficiency and the second about a super-absorbent solar cell. I’m reminded of a conversation I have frequently with clean energy nay-sayers. As renewable energy …
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Fastest Electric Vehicles
Here’s a cool infographic called “The Fastest Electric Vehicles on Earth” that I thought readers would enjoy, from these folks. What they say here is certainly true: we tend to think of EVs as slow, glorified golf carts. Yet those …
From Guest Blogger Cameron Atwood: What is "Civilization" – and Do We Want It?
What is a society? Is it merely an assortment of separated and competing drives of short-term self-interest, and rights of possession? Is it an orchestra of individuals cooperating to achieve the enlargement and preservation of the Common Good? Anthropologists tell …
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The American Council on Renewable Energy Key To Establishing the Industry
Concerning Poland’s 24 billion euro investment in the energy sector, the country’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters: “These investments have a strategic dimension; today, energy is the key to politics.” What a candid remark – one you’d hardly hear …
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