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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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 extended: (more…)
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…)
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.
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.
I make go/no-go decisions re: attending conferences the way anyone else does. I’m motivated to go if:
• I’m invited to speak
• It’s close, i.e., a drive as opposed to a plane ride (more…)
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the 90th birthday of American political humorist Art Buchwald (pictured). They write:
Buchwald began writing political satire when President Eisenhower made a trip to France. His humorous articles caught the attention of Eisenhower’s press secretary, who called the pieces “unadulterated rot.” Buchwald answered back, “I have been known to write adulterated rot, but never unadulterated rot.” After this, he moved back to the United States and began writing political satire full-time. Buchwald said, “If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.” (more…)
