Author: Craig Shields

2GREENENERGY: MAKING CLEAN POWER WORK Large renewable energy project? Need help with permitting? PPAs? Grid tie? 2GreenEnergy associates have decades of experience in advising clients on utility-scale wind and solar (PV, solar thermal, and hybrid) projects. Whether the program you’re …

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Chip Aadlund writes: CO2 is a problem and a huge one, but it doesn’t compare with chemical pollution. From 1973 to 1999 childhood cancers increased 26 percent. Acute childhood lymphcytic cancer is up 61 percent, brain cancer up 50 percent …

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A reader points out: Craig, you seem to think that there should be a single best solution for clean energy. I would agree with you if you qualified your assertion to state that there is a single best solution for …

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I posted this optimistic year-end piece on RenewableEnergyWorld. The availability of solutions to our planet’s many woes is really a function of the number of people who get involved and insist that their voices be heard. And, as I’ve noted in …

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New Years is a time-honored opportunity to make mid-course corrections in one’s activities in life. To that end, let me talk briefly about the business side of 2GreenEnergy, and note that all of us here at 2GreenEnergy intend to make …

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I asked global warming (GW) skeptic Jarrett Buys to explain the melting of the glaciers as evidenced by photos taken over the last century and the data behind ubiquitous graphs like this one. Excerpts from his response include: Man just …

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“The good news is, you got an order from Costco,” my good friend John Tyson says, explaining the discussions he has with his clients.  “The bad news is, you got an order from Costco.”  He then elucidates, laying out the …

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I have to admit that I find myself in a quandary about products that are not strictly speaking environmentally sustainable but that offer considerable benefits compared to those that they would replace. Obviously, the world would be a cleaner place …

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I conducted my interview with ex-CIA director James Woolsey a few days ago, for the “national security” chapter of my book on renewables. I just posted a blog on RenewableEnergyWorld — getting into the subject of oilman psychology and cowboy …

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Merry Christmas everyone! Had a great time at a friend’s “Stop By For a Glass of Chrismas Cheer” party last night; it was an opportunity to meet many wonderful people.  It’s always amusing to get people’s reactions when I’m asked …

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