Here’s the first edition of Green Auto Digest for the New Year, from my colleague Jon LeSage. The take-away is that the two most important trends in transportation, i.e., autonomous vehicles and alt-fuel, are both moving forward at an impressive …
Category: Renewables – Business
What’s Driving the Move To CleanTech?
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From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Factory Phenom–How to Manage Efficient and Clean Production Facilities
Clean and efficient production facilities help to boost profitability. When maintaining your factory, there are many actions you can take. Keep these four solutions in mind for boosting energy and production efficiency. Weatherization
Welcome to 2GreenEnergy. We’re Glad You’re Here.
To those who have been with us since our inception in 2009, as well as to those who are just joining us now for the first time, here’s a brief summary of what we at 2GreenEnergy are all about. We …
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American Patriots Need To Take Action
Here’s a point I’ve made dozens of times: The U.S. is in the process of blowing its opportunity to participate in the $50 trillion clean energy revolution, simply because of its love affair with fossil fuels–or at least with the …
Some Billionaires Continue to Pour Support into the Cleantech Cause
Numerous 2GE readers tell me about their attempts to reach certain celebrity billionaires with their cleantech ideas. In the privacy of my own thoughts, I believe that unsolicited communications are almost certainly doomed to failure, though, of course, I never …
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Trump’s Promise To Put Coal Miners Back To Work Fraught with Challenge, E.g., Killing Jobs In Other Republican States
I’m not sure anyone, regardless of his political stripes, expects president-elect Trump to fulfill his promises re: the environment, if only because they are so blatantly self-contradictory. To simplify a more complicated issue, it’s (obviously) impossible to take care of …
Understanding the Impact of Renewable Energy on the Job Market
It’s so good to see that Dr. Robert Pollin, whom I interviewed five years ago for my second book (Is Renewable Really Doable?) is still hard at work at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), at the University of Massachusetts, …
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(Some) Wealthy People Will Not Sit Back and Let This Civilization Destroy Itself
A friend sent me this post on wealthy individuals who are backing a huge clean energy fund aimed at backing fledgling, high-risk companies whose results could potentially have enormous implications for the future of this planet. I respond:
The Cost-Effectiveness of Clean Energy Is Constantly Improving: And That’s Important News in Today’s Horrific Political Climate
Here’s more evidence of an extremely important phenomenon on the world energy stage: the continued fall in the cost of solar electricity. Environmentalists continue to wring their hands as people like Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt, and Rick Perry are nominated …
The Brightest Spot in the Developing World: Distributed, Clean Energy
2GreenEnergy super-support Gary Tulie writes: Here’s good news from rural Kenya. Yes, that’s fantastic; it’s precisely what I’ve been so anxious to see happen in the developing world. It’s a huge, multifaceted win:
