A reader with terrific environmental sensibilities notes: My house is made of used 2x4s and used fibreglas batts, and consumes about 25% of the energy of my neighbours’ conventionally built/operated homes. I have this amazing light (called a JOI) which …
Our Civilization’s Transition to Environmentalism Read More »
Some businesses have been very slow to implement environmentally friendly changes into the running of their enterprise. Partly this may be down to fear that taking green initiatives will be expensive and partly it may be that they don’t recognise …
From Guest Blogger James Tipton: The Avoidance of "Going Green" in Business Read More »
English poet Alexander Pope was born this day in 1688, who left us with this: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. That’s something to think about in …
The Ever-Accelerating Migration to Renewable Energy Read More »
It’s no secret that Google is the world’s most rapidly diversifying company, and I found further proof of this yesterday when I had the pleasure of meeting Rick Needham, Google’s Director of Energy and Sustainability, at the Low Carbon Investing …
A few other quotes from the conference, which provided me a great excuse to be in San Francisco, one of my very favorite cities. I couldn’t resist adding my comments. • Renewable energy has not fully recovered from the Carter-Reagan transition.
I met a very interesting guy yesterday at the Low Carbon Investors conference: a professor at Stanford whose discipline is disruptive technologies. Among other things, he’s an advisor to several different groups of students who are working on new approaches …
I’m up in San Francisco at the Low Carbon Investors conference today. I like to cover events like this for 2GreenEnergy readers, and I aim to do that in this case with all my might. There is a slight problem, however,
I may have mentioned that we recently passed the 5,000 mark in terms of total posts here. In fact, this is number 5,126–of which I’ve written 4,483. When it comes to my stuff, I’m reminded of what (American actor, director, …
2GreenEnergy Thanks All Its Contributors–And Steve Martin for a Highly Relevant Quote Read More »
Frequent commenter “MarcoPolo” (the original pictured left) writes: While it’s true that some technologies do become mainstream innovations, most never fulfill the dreams of their supporters, and remain only hobbyist or small scale applications. Like you, every week, I receive …
What Will Become of Most Renewable Energy Concepts? Read More »
We often hear that young people are much more environmentally conscious than previous generations, and we certainly have to hope that’s true. It’s certainly the case with a young woman named Emma, who writes as follows: As a trainee journalist…I’ve …
Divestment from Fossil Fuels Is a Big Deal in Today’s World Read More »
