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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Novelist Andre Gide once wrote: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

How true that is with respect to sustainability. Sure, we could use a few great new ideas, but most of the ideas we need have been with us for millennia. In terms of our respect for nature, we’re simply trying to reclaim ground we once owned. People 200 years ago didn’t need to be told to leave a habitable planet for future generations; the notion was a part of the common wisdom of the day.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Those of you who use Facebook may have already checked out our 2GreenEnergy page (linked here).   As you can see, we have a few thousand “likes,” but we could always use more; apparently, liking a Facebook page helps to promote its concept through our society.

Currently, my daughter (pictured here), being the typical teenager, likes to rib me: “Ya know, Dad, bananas have more likes than 2GreenEnergy. You’re losing to a fruit? Really? How pathetic is that?”

And darned if it isn’t true. Dole Bananas have 131 times more likes than we do. So please help the concept of clean energy get ahead of bananas. Here’s that link again.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s the 317th birthday of Voltaire, one of my favorite people in history. I loved Candide, the work for which he’s best known today, but I admire him even more for his free-minded political philosophy, exemplified by this pithy remark: “As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

I invite you to contemplate the state of the world for a moment and realize how true this is.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Here’s another must-see video from Annie Leonard at The Story of Stuff, this one called “The Story of Broke.”

I hope everyone will invest five minutes and check this out. Note how much of what she’s saying sounds like what we have here at 2GreenEnergy, e.g., factoids like this:  the senators who voted to continue subsidies to the oil companies received five times as much in campaign contributions from Big Oil as those who voted to end those subsidies.

While you’re watching, think of what this world would be like if a few major countries were run by people with this level of honesty and enlightenment.   When your finished, you may want to send it to as many people as you can who are concerned about the direction in which we’re headed.   

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Question: How much trash does the average American generate daily?

Answer: Can be found HERE.

Relevance:  As suggested in this brilliant video, The Story of Stuff, our ultra-consumer society is on a crash course with sustainability.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Considering the externalities of fossil fuels — from lung disease, to environmental damage, to empowering terrorism, to a crushing national debt – there sure are a bunch of people bashing electric vehicles and renewable energy.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  comments on this phenomenon in a recent article: (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Here in the U.S., we have climate change deniers, and all manner of other opponents to renewable energy. In essence, they’re the oil and coal companies, the members of Congress they influence, and those who believe the enormous amount of propaganda they generate on “clean coal,” “safe nuclear,” etc.

In the U.K. however, they come in the form of certain members of the nobility. According to The Guardian, the Duke of Edinburgh has made a fierce attack on wind farms, claiming that “they don’t work,” and describing them as “a disgrace” and “absolutely useless.” Pictured here, however, he looks rather jolly. Who would know that such scathing (and foolish) statements lie behind such a winsome smile and excellent breeding? (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels

World Energy Outlook Roars Out a Warning

Here’s the latest report of the International Energy Agency, which is run by many of the world’s largest oil-consuming nations. It’s an annual piece called “World Energy Outlook,” and warns that without radical changes in the world’s energy infrastructure in the next five years, humans will make climate change irreversible.

Bob Dylan fans will recognize that the last few words of the title come from “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall.”  Let’s do our best to make sure that’s not the case, i.e., that a hard rain does not, in fact, fall.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Hey, we just went over 1500 total blog posts here at 2GreenEnergy.  That’s a considerable body of work; my profound thanks to all who have helped.  

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Nuclear

About once a week, someone asks me for my take on the latest about Fukushima, how concerned we should be, or what the upshot will be in terms of world energy policy (as if there is such a thing).  I immediately refer them to Ace Hoffman of Carlsbad, CA, who’s been studying the nuclear power industry for more than 40 years — since he was about fourteen years old.  He writes with depth and passion, and I recommend that anyone interested in the subject follow his blog here.  

He’s testified at over 100 nuke hearings, and written over a thousand essays, including the one I’ve excerpted here: (more…)

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