John Oliver sure nails it here. A friend recently asked my opinion of climate change, and was surprised when I replied that I didn’t have one. When he probed further, I explained that opinions apply to subjective matters like art or cooking, not to matters of scientific fact. Climate change deniers are simply ignorant of science.
In response to my recent post Wave Energy Isn’t Going To Make It, a commenter writes: Wave energy may not be completely finished. Such technologies may not be economic in today’s economic dynamics, but who knows what the future may hold for such ideas? (more…)
Many businesses waste thousands of dollars each year on unnecessary expenses. Reducing the amount of waste that your company generates is good for your bottom line. Here are some of the ways to resolve waste in the workplace:
Conserve Water Resources (more…)
Facebook users who follow renewables are quite accustomed to seeing videos on ocean wave energy, like this one. I have to admit; there is an intuitive appeal to the subject, as we can all visualize the vast power of the waves as they traverse the globe and ultimately pound on the shores, and we can all recall body-surfing, getting swamped, and being tossed around like a piece of flotsam. (more…)
Harking from Australia in the late 1970s, Permaculture is a creative design process based on a set of ethics and principles with the same ambition: to live sustainably and resiliently. (more…)
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to become more environmentally conscious, then you will want to find new ways to have a green home this year. Here are five ways to create a property that will use less energy along with protecting the environment from pollution. (more…)
Regarding my earlier suggestion in which I lament the downturn in the solar industry, and that 9800 job were lost in solar in 2017, frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: Every boom time industry, especially those heavily reliant on consumer or taxpayer subsidies will eventually undergo a constriction. (more…)
A variety of events, including the looming tariffs, conspired to eliminate 9,800 jobs in the solar industry between 2016 and 2017; this represents first drop ever recorded in the National Solar Jobs Census since it started collecting data in 2010.
It didn’t have to go this way. (more…)
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt now says rising temperatures might be beneficial, and it would be “arrogant” to stop global warming.
Can someone please explain why anyone could possibly give a damn about this jackass’s viewpoints on climate change? Would you ask a pro baseball player or fashion model or a pastry chef? Then why would you ask a poli-sci major who works for the oil companies?
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie writes from his home in charming Buckinghamshire, England:
Hi Craig. (As discussed in this article), whilst still fairly small scale, there is a move by oil majors to diversify into renewables. (more…)
