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From Guest Blogger in the UK Hannah Corbett: Green Business Energy Policies

craigshieldsPosted on January 10, 2015 Posted in Efficiency

In the modern world, it is becoming more commonplace for businesses to take control of, and responsibility for, the role that they play in energy consumption and their effect on the environment. As such, many businesses now include an environmental or energy policy at their core, and as part of their business’s values and ethos.

If you feel that it’s time for you to join the ranks of green businesses out there, then there are a number of areas that you could address to make your business more eco-friendly, and to lessen your business’s impact on the environment. After you decide how best you can green your business, then you’ll have a better idea of the notions and actions to include in your business energy or environment policy, if you wish to write one. (more…)

Tagged with: energy policy, green, sustainability

From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: How Your Roof Can Make Your Home More Energy Efficient

craigshieldsPosted on January 10, 2015 Posted in Sustainable Building

An upgrade to a roof can make your home more energy efficient in several ways to reduce the costs of climate control. If you are not a construction expert, then understanding how replacing a roof makes a difference with energy costs is essential. Roofs have multiple layers to reflect sunlight, shed moisture and seal in climate controlled air. (more…)

Tagged with: clean energy, energy, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, green energy, sustainable energy

From Guest Blogger Monica Gomez: What is the Future of Geothermal Energy in the US?

craigshieldsPosted on January 10, 2015 Posted in Geothermal

Geothermal energy is a growing field in the United States and the world. As we look for more sources of clean energy that can be used by consumers at low costs, geothermal energy is becoming a commonsense solution. It is efficient, effective, inexpensive to use, and totally clean in that it produces no pollution and does not harm the environment to access or use it, according to Business Wire. (more…)

Tagged with: alternative energy, energy efficiency, energy policy, geothermal ghermal

From Guest Blogger Blake Meredith: Consumer Electronics Show 2015 Home Automation Technologies | Smart & Green

craigshieldsPosted on January 10, 2015 Posted in Efficiency

Home automation has come a long way from when the first caveman bred a colony of glowworms to illuminate his stickman murals. Now, homes have IQs.

At the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, hosted January 6-9 in Las Vegas, the best and brightest from the world’s biggest showcased their technological prophecies. LG unveiled a television barely thicker than a fingernail. NVidia introduced a mini super-chip powered by 10 watts and capable of a teraflop of processing power. Bragi showed off its Dash wireless in-ear headphones, which monitor heart rate and exercise intensity while pumping out tunes. (more…)

Tagged with: energy efficiency, home technology

How Much Oil Company Stock Do You Want To Be Holding When Snow and Ice Fall?

craigshieldsPosted on January 9, 2015 Posted in Ocean Thermal

My colleague Jim Greenberg from Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation published something today that I wanted to pass along. Here’s a pithy excerpt.

The observation that investing in fossil fuels is getting riskier is shared by some major players in the investment and financial industries. (more…)

Tagged with: CEO and CFO of British Petroleum, fossil fuel tremendous volatility, investing in fossil fuels getting riskier, investment financial industries

Why Lower Oil Prices Aren’t Bad for Clean Energy

craigshieldsPosted on January 9, 2015 Posted in Renewables - Business

Here’s an article in Forbes that makes the same point that I do in chapter eight of my new book: Bullish on Renewable Energy, i.e., volatility has a cost.

The cost of energy from fossil fuels depends on the cost of the fuels themselves, which fluctuates according to market pressures, and we’ve seen extreme volatility over the past few decades. By contrast, not only are renewable resources free, but perhaps best of all, that can’t change; there will never be a cost associated with absorbing energy from sunlight or the wind. Not only does this concept of free fuel bring peace of mind, it saves a ton of money associated with hedges, purchasing futures, etc.

Tagged with: Bullish on Renewable Energy, cost of energy from fossil fuels depends on the cost of the fuels themselves, extreme volatility, Lower Oil Prices Aren’t Bad for Clean Energy, market pressures, volatility has a cost

Don’t Envy the Developers of Every Large Solar and Wind Project

craigshieldsPosted on January 9, 2015 Posted in Wind Energy

I often lament that I’m never financially involved in the multi-billion solar and wind projects. Generally, each one happens with its own inner sanctum of bankers and lawyers. It’s hard not to envy them, though, as I add no value there, I’m never invited to play. (more…)

Tagged with: Cape Wind, equity and debt financers, inner sanctum of bankers and lawyers, multi-billion solar and wind projects

New Style of Transportation for the 21st Century: Not Sexy, But Unique

craigshieldsPosted on January 9, 2015 Posted in Electric Vehicles

Let me introduce this new form of transportation.

I can’t claim that it’s sexy–only that it’s unique and that it will be worth the 90 seconds you spent checking it out.

And I thought I had this whole subject really well thought out — until now, that is.

Just when I was betting on mass transit, drone package deliveries and e-bikes. This changes everything.

Tagged with: 21st Century transportation, drone deliveries, e-bikes, mass transit, unique new form of transportation

Incredible Turnaround in the Future of Free Speech

craigshieldsPosted on January 9, 2015 Posted in Renewables - Politics

Just as the tragedy in Paris last Wednesday was the blackest single moment in the history of free speech that the civilized world has ever known, last Thursday saw an immediate change of direction. Chairman of the FCC (U.S. Federal Communications Commission) Tom Wheeler all but announced that he was coming down on the side of Net Neutrality.

This is very good news for almost everyone except for the huge forces in the communications industry, whose profits would have gone through the roof if they were able to provide an “Internet fast lane” for themselves and their subsidiaries, and to sell to certain customers, while those of us who couldn’t afford it would have had users complaining about slower downloads, or, more likely, simply disappearing. (more…)

Tagged with: Brian Roberts, Comcast, Future of Free Speech, net neutrality

Nothing Too Funny About Ruthless Oil Companies, So….

craigshieldsPosted on January 8, 2015 Posted in Climate Change

Although I do try to cut up occasionally in some of these posts, there’s not too much humor in the basic theme: the heartlessness of the oil companies, the realities of climate disruption and so forth. For that reason, I may do well to post something every once in a while that’s just plain fun. I’m sure many of you have experienced this for yourselves–I know I have–they’ve been at it for at least three decades.

Tagged with: ruthless oil companies