Effective February 17, 2017, The Forest Service, part of the US Department of Agriculture, has reversed its initial ruling and will permit, once again, coal mining in the North Fork region of approximately 4.2 million acres of land located within the State of Colorado in Roadless Areas on National Forest System (NFS) lands. (more…)
From the current edition of Green Auto Market, published by my colleague Jon LeSage:
Will fuel cell vehicles be able to thrive and surpass plug-in vehicle sales? The question of which clean technology will prevail in the car of the future continues to permeate the auto industry. (more…)
As shown in the graphic below, the concept of peak oil is pretty much dead and buried. In fact, there are supplies of all three fossil fuels to last indefinitely, as our technologies for extraction become more sophisticated.
Tell people you’re planning to relocate your office and you better get ready to handle some pretty soul-crushing responses.
Because as well as countless ‘rather you than me’ comments, you’re about to be inundated with warning after warning about how difficult and risky it is to move a business. (more…)
A few more observations on the exploding advancements of technology in transportation from our colleague Fritz Maffry. – ed
This year, the CES (formerly “Consumer Electronics Show”) in Vegas might as well have been called the Electric and Autonomous Vehicle showcase. All the energy and announcements are about plans in this space, with each purveyor trying to upstage the others. (more…)
I had a meeting in New York City last year with a fellow alumnus of Trinity College (pictured). The guy had just sold his real estate development company for a mere $5.4 billion (with a “b”), so I thought that was worth a walk crosstown from my previous appointment to spend a few minutes with him. Of course, I hoped to present a few of my clean energy investment opportunities, and I did just that, but I noticed visibly skeptical body-language coming from my friend. (more…)
In response to my piece called On the Climate Change “Hoax,” a commenter writes: Not a global warming fan. I lived in North Dakota for 2 winters. Minus 30F will remove all thoughts that anything is warming up.
I’ve heard that there are people who think like this, but I don’t think I’ve ever met one until now. (more…)
Here’s a video that an intelligent, well-educated and well-meaning friend sent me, which “smashes global warming as a hoax,” and came with the proviso “I don’t want a big debate on this.”
Well that’s a good start. Who really wants a debate on this subject, large or small? (more…)
Here’s a point I’ve made dozens of times: The U.S. is in the process of blowing its opportunity to participate in the $50 trillion clean energy revolution, simply because of its love affair with fossil fuels–or at least with the money and political clout associated with the fossil fuel industry.
The single most patriotic thing that people who love America can do is to push their country away from dirty, 20th Century energy into clean, 21st Century energy, creating jobs and growing our economy.
Some people might see a car as simply a mode of transportation that gets you from one place to another, but the truth is that a car is an expression of the driver. At the moment, more people are looking to buy green-friendly vehicles than ever before. Some are doing this because green-friendly cars are more cost-efficient while others are concerned about emissions that end up hurting the planet. The following are a few ways that modern technology is making automobiles greener and cleaner. (more…)
