Sharing and Sustainability
I am a believer in the concept of sharing as a core tool to drive sustainability. Perhaps the most obvious manifestations that we’re starting to see today are in transportation: ride-sharing and, increasingly popular, car-sharing. I just can’t imagine living in a city like Washington DC, Boston or San Francisco and owning a car, but it would be great to have easy and inexpensive access to one when I was travelling outside of such a city and public transportation didn’t make sense.
Yet the idea goes beyond the realm of mobility. As “Story of Stuff” spokesperson Annie Leonard muses, “What if we all didn’t need our own crème brulee blowtorches? What if we could just borrow one from our local library?”
And here’s a concept, Peer.org, that my friend Brandi Veil sent me just now, that I’d like to “share” on her behalf.
A reader sent me this article of “high-concentration solar PV thermal” 
As I’m sure readers here have observed, my opinions on climate change are taken directly and exclusively from the 97+% of mainstream climate scientists, some of whom I know personally, that tell us two things:
In the course of a phone conversation I had yesterday with a young man looking for advice about a career in renewable energy, he happened to mention this 
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes on my recent post concerning the 
A reader just emailed me to say:
Anyone who expects the French to fall in line with conventional thinking on energy (or on anything, really) grossly misunderstands these people. Part of what attracts me to their culture is that they couldn’t care less what the rest of the world thinks of them. 
Here’s an article that makes the same point that 
Writing for EmpowerTheOcean, my colleague Emma Websdale notes that 
I hope readers will check this out: 
