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How Hot Does It Have To Get?

craigshieldsPosted on October 22, 2015 Posted in Climate Change

It’s interesting to see the world reaction to news like this, i.e., that 2015 is far hotter than the previous hottest year on record (2014). It makes one wonder: exactly what average temperatures do we need to achieve before we figure out that we have a serious problem? Maybe this information, in conjunction with the news that ExxonMobil has been deliberately deceiving the world about anthropogenic climate change for the last 35 years, will stimulate some real action in this space.

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Tagged with: 2015 is far hotter than the previous hottest year on record (2014), ExxonMobil has been deliberately deceiving the world about anthropogenic climate change for the last 35 years, How Hot Does It Have To Get

E-bikes: Happening in a Big Way in Los Angeles

craigshieldsPosted on October 22, 2015 Posted in Electric Vehicles

A friend in Kansas City with a huge track record in sales and a passion for e-bikes writes: Craig, this is a big opportunity.

Yes, and I would be reasonably well qualified for it based on my 30+ years in marketing with P&L responsibility (it was my business, after all; no one else to blame for poor performance but me). On the other hand, my strength isn’t in the consumer space.

I would think you would be even better qualified. Want to move out here? You could come up here for weekend barbecues. We’ve been know to throw some real wing-dings.

Go Royals, btw.

Tagged with: E-bikes in Los Angeles, passion for e-bikes

Craig Shields Is At Your Service—Most of the Time

craigshieldsPosted on October 22, 2015 Posted in Renewables - Business

Earlier this week I signed up a client for my “At Your Service” product (a one-day consulting action on any cleantech business concept for $1000 plus travel reimbursement), but I could see in advance that it wasn’t going to work out, so I returned his money.

He has an idea that I’m 99+% confident won’t work with any cost-effectiveness at all. (more…)

Tagged with: cleantech business concept, Craig Shields - At Your Service

Threats To Our Civilization

craigshieldsPosted on October 22, 2015 Posted in Sustainability

A great number of the 6000+ posts here deal with the ultimate tragedy: the end of our civilization as we know it due to our own stupidity or, even worse, our malfeasance. Of course, we’re reminded of all this via the recent revelations about ExxonMobil’s decision to suppress the evidence of climate disruption associated with the burning of fossil fuels. (more…)

Tagged with: asteroid strike, ExxonMobil’s decision to suppress the evidence of climate disruption associated with the burning of fossil fuels, the end of our civilization as we know, Threats To Our Civilization, US’s largest oil company

From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Six Energy-Saving Secrets Every Family Should Know

craigshieldsPosted on October 22, 2015 Posted in Sustainable Building

Typically, an American family spends up to $2,700 a year on electric bills. With energy costs spiraling upwards more each year, it’s important for families to try to save as much in energy in their homes as possible. Below are several energy-saving tips families should have in place with an eye toward not only creating wealth for their family pocket-book, but limiting their carbon footprint on planet Earth as well. (more…)

Tagged with: Carbon Footprint, energy saving tips, Smaller Appliances

From Guest Blogger Heather: Three Ways to Create a Sustainable Home This Fall

craigshieldsPosted on October 22, 2015 Posted in Sustainability

There is still time before winter hits to create a sustainable home both indoors and outdoors. With these ideas you will be saving the environment one project at a time.

Go Solar

Since 2013 the solar industry has grown 30 percent and has no plans of slowing down. (more…)

Tagged with: 000 megawatts (MW) of solar electric capacity operating in the United States, 20, installing solar, sustainable home

A Sober Look at Arctic Oil Exploration

craigshieldsPosted on October 21, 2015 Posted in Fossil Fuels

Frequent commenter Glenn Doty, one of the brightest and best-informed people I’ve ever met, writes this in response to my piece on the Obama Administration’s cancelling all offshore drilling leases in our Arctic Ocean for the next two years and denying Shell’s and Statoil’s requests for their Arctic leases to be extende d: (more…)

Tagged with: cancelling offshore drilling leases Arctic Ocean, electric transportation, end of the petroleum economy, exponential rate at which wind solar storage smart-grid/efficiency advanced nuclear changing the electricity grid

Another High Five to the Obama Administration on Environmental Protection

craigshieldsPosted on October 21, 2015 Posted in Renewables - Politics

It wasn’t but a couple of years ago that I was in a funk about the Obama Administration and the meager progress it had made on environmental issues. I’m so happy to be eating my words, based on what’s happened recently, e.g., the Department of Interior’s cancelling all offshore drilling leases in our Arctic Ocean for the next two years.

From the Sierra Club: (more…)

Tagged with: Big Oil, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management denied Shell and Statoil’s requests for their Arctic leases to be extended, Department of Interior’s cancelling all offshore drilling leases in our Arctic Ocean, Obama Administration on Environmental Protection, Shell No

Advanced Technology?

craigshieldsPosted on October 21, 2015 Posted in Renewables - Science

A reader notes: We had a new advanced technology of the Biomass treatment for pro-Ethanor; according to reactor fine-milling of attrition autogenaous with criated a mechano-chemical reaction and use of the ions solution by bactericide catalytic TiO2-Complex Ag base.

Holy smokes. I couldn’t make this up. (Actually, I suppose I could, but I didn’t.) That’s real, authentic technobabble, along the lines of this classic.

Tagged with: technobabble

E-Bikes Play a Key Role in the Future of Transportation

craigshieldsPosted on October 21, 2015 Posted in Electric Vehicles

There are so many trends related to energy efficiency in our world today that I remain optimistic that, taken as a whole, all these factors that enable us to use less energy per capita will offset the growing population, and the Asians’ demand to live like us energy-hogging Westerners.

A great example of this is electric-assisted bicycles, sales of which continue to go through the roof. I decided to skip the InterBike show last month in Las Vegas, but I checked out some of the highlights, which I present here.

Tagged with: Asians’ demand to live like us energy-hogging Westerners, E-Bikes Play a Key Role in the Future of Transportation, electric-assisted bicycles, energy efficiency, energy per capita, InterBike Las Vegas