When I was a little boy, I recall a conversation with my father in which he told me his impressions about the characteristics of the people who lived in a few of the states within driving distance of us in …
Category: Renewables – Business
Personal Connections May Be Good for the Renewable Energy Cause
As I hoped it would be, my college reunion was a feel-good mixture of nostalgia, immersion in some good thinking offered in a few seminars, and revelry with old friends. But it was also quite productive, from the standpoint of …
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Clean Energy Meetings on Both Coasts
Tomorrow night marks the start of a trip out of town for me. I’ll be headed to San Francisco for a couple of meetings, including coffee with my friend Fareed Sfard, CEO of solar thermal start-up Ahura Energy. Then it’s …
Teak Reforestation in Columbia
Every time I speak with the gentleman who runs the teak reforesting business in Columbia, I become more astonished at how safe, sane, and civilized that part of the world appears to have become. Here’s a video on investing in …
Investors in Clean Energy: A Different Breed
Here’s a report of macro-trends observed by venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins. To me, the most noteworthy thing about it is the concept that Kleiner managing partner Ray Lane explained in a conversation he and I had in his office …
2000th Blog Post on Renewable Energy
It is with great joy that I announce that this is our 2000th blog post. My profound thanks to our regular readers, whose enthusiasm for the subject and willingness to tell their friends has caused the site’s traffic to grow …
Guest Blogging on Clean Energy
Wow, I just noticed that our next post will be our 2000th! That’s the good news. The bad news is that I wrote 1721 of them. Let’s see if we can get a few more guest-bloggers active over the course …
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, Craig Shields, green energy, guest blogging, Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy and Job Creation
In my ongoing quest to understand the implications of renewable energy into the job market, I came across this video on job creation more generally – a talk by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer. You’ll notice that this was made to …
Reaping What We Sow: The Implosion of the Heartland Institute
According to Forecast The Facts, The Heartland Institute’s billboard advertising campaign to discredit the theory of global climate change is meeting with the defection of support at a rate at least as radical as the campaign itself.
Energy Scarcities Cause Food Scarcities
There are many components to the cost of growing food and shipping it to its final destination – a surprisingly large part of which is energy. Moving water around the state of California uses 18 percent of all the electricity …
Tagged with: Aeroponics, eco-footprint of agribusiness, energy scarcity, fertilizers, food desert, food scarcity, global climate change, global warming. extreme weather, high fuel prices, high oil prices, locally grown, maximizing food yield, organic farming, organic growing, pesticides, shortage of energy, shortage of food, shortage of water, synthetic chemicals, toxins
