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 …
Category: Renewables – Business
Guest Blogging on Clean Energy
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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 …
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Is Renewable Really Doable? Today’s Wine-tasters Didn’t Care
I think we’ve all had experiences that were such unmitigated disasters that they were actually funny. That’s the bottom line on today’s book signing at Roblar, a very nice local winery with which friends had made arrangements for me. Not …
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Is Renewable Really Doable? Available on Earth Day
Petrina Sharp, my good friend and director of the 2GreenEnergy Video Report, set up this attractive display of “Is Renewable Really Doable?” for an Earth Day celebration in Ventura, CA a few weeks ago.
A Career in Clean Energy? Here’s Some Advice
Each week I receive several emails requesting my advice on career paths within the clean energy space. I thought I’d take a few minutes and jot down a few of the ideas that I normally try to express in response. …
Tagged with: alternative energy, biology, chemistry, clean energy, clean energy career path, coal companies, drill baby drill, engineering, enviorment, environmental action group, environmentalism, green energy, Is Renewable Really Doable, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, oil companies, physics, Political Economy Research Institute, Renewable Energy, Robert Pollin
Book Signing for “Is Renewable Really Doable?”
Next Saturday I’m doing a book signing at the wonderful Roblar Winery a couple of miles up the road. Though I can’t imagine that I’ll sell more than a dozen books or so, I’m really looking forward to the experience: …
Hey, 2GreenEnergy — Start Doing and Quit Whining
Bruce writes: Wake up, if you want to stop pollution, stop polluting yourself and quit blaming the people that enable you to do the dirty work yourself. Take some personal responsibility. Environmental issues are never going to be solved as …
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Getting Smarter About Renewable Energy
A reader asked for my opinion on this article in RealClearScience, a well-written and innocuous primer on renewable energy. The premise: “keep pushing, but push smarter” is hard to argue with. I’m reminded of people who caution “Be careful!” when …
