You know it’s a wild time when improbable events happen simultaneously, since the probability of any two events’ happening together is the arithmetic product of the events’ respective probabilities. (more…)
When it comes to running a business, there are fewer line items larger than the simple cost of running your office. Or, as your budget would have you believe, the complicated cost. (more…)
What are the similarities between life on Earth today vs. 1500 years ago? Thankfully, not too many. The 6th Century CE saw the invention of backgammon and the first use of toilet paper, but outside of that, things we’re pretty barbaric.
Geologically, however, there is a huge parallel. From this report: (more…)
Whether you like to call it global warming or climate change, there is little doubt that the Earth is getting hotter. Fortunately, there are steps that you can take to minimize your impact on the changing climate. While these changes may be minor ones, they may have a major impact on how much energy you use and how much carbon you put into the atmosphere. (more…)
In this edition of Green Auto Digest, my colleague Jon LeSage (pictured) gets at an issue that struck me when I first got interested in electric transportation: the EPA’s mile-per-gallon ratings. We seem married to assigning MPG equivalents to EVs, even though these figures are clearly meaningless. (more…)
Although this is funny, the environmental policies of the current Administration are far more malicious than suggested here. In fact, by subsidizing fossil fuels, removing tax credits for solar and wind, opening up federal lands to oil and gas exploration, eviscerating the EPA, green-lighting pipelines for tar sands, and thumbing its nose at every other country on Earth by withdrawing from the Paris Accord, the Trump administration isn’t passively ignoring the issue; it’s actively pouring gasoline onto the fire.
Here’s a message the likes of which I’m sure many of you have received recently: (more…)
In the eight years since we kicked off 2GreenEnergy, many readers have noticed a shift in focus, namely, fewer posts of technology and more on the politics that surround global sustainability. There’s exactly one reason for this, and it’s summed up beautifully on the left by Gus Speth, American environmental lawyer and advocate.
UK and international legislation on energy efficiency means every firm has to comply with appropriate laws.
And there are always organisations that do the bare minimum required to satisfy regulators. But several companies operate at the vanguard of green energy and rightly take pride in their eco-conscious offerings. (more…)
“The Energy Year In Review, 2017” is Energy Matters’ annual recap on the subject. From this edition: Universal access to electricity remained elusive – about 675 million people – 90% in sub-Saharan Africa – do not have access to electricity; and 2.3 billion people burn dung-piles, wood, coal chips or kerosene to cook food or sterilize water. (more…)
