Here’s why I haven’t been in a Walmart for the last 20+ years. It’s bad enough that the Walton family pays its employees slave wages; it’s even worse that you and I are subsidizing the Walton payroll so its people …
Category: Renewables – Business
Argentina Is Torn Between Its Shale Dream and Climate Goals
Here’s an article that describes how natural gas fracking could be Argentina’s ticket out of a years-long economic crisis, but it jeopardizes a promise to wipe out emissions by 2050. It begins: President Alberto Fernandez took to a makeshift stage …
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Where Should the Stimulus Package Go?
Is trillion-dollar public spending a good idea? That’s arguable. If we’re going ahead with it, should that money go to those who need it most and will spend it immediately, thus stimulating the economy? That’s irrefutable. See graphic below.
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Marketing At Its Worst
As a marketing consultant, I sometimes like to comment on extremely poor choices when it comes to promotion. I might do something like this in a vegan campaign, but could this possibly entice anyone to eat more meat?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Texas’s Deregulated Electricity Market Cost Residents More Than the Loss of Power
Question: From the Wall Street Journal: Texas’s deregulated electricity market, which was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price, left millions in the dark last week. For two decades, its customers have paid more for electricity than state residents …
The Role of Hydrogen in Our Quest for Clean Energy
Those for whom this is a new idea will benefit from this article on hydrogen, and how it’s part of Big Oil’s masterplan to forestall “the electrification of everything.” The generation of electricity from low carbon sources like solar, wind, …
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Build a Better Mousetrap, and …..
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” is a phrase attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the late nineteenth century. It’s not correct, as anyone familiar with marketing will tell you, and the …
Texas Governor Lies About Cause of Energy Debacle, Pays Price
Texas governor Greg Abbott concocted a grossly erroneous explanation of his state’s energy debacle, blaming wind energy and the “Green New Deal” for the costly tragedy. When the audience at Fox News ate it up with a spoon, mainstream media …
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Shell Announces Shift to Renewable Energy
Here’s the start of an article in the blog “The Long Tail Pipe,” with a few of my comments beneath it. A few days ago Royal Dutch Shell announced it was accelerating its strategy to drive down carbon emissions while …
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Biden Poised To Remove Subsidies for Fossil Fuels, Gets High Marks from Environmentalists for His First 26 Days
From this article on Biden and environmental responsibility: President Biden dubbed Jan. 27, exactly one week after he took office, “climate day.” On this day, the president followed up on his day one climate order to rejoin the Paris Agreement and revoke …
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