Category: Renewables – Politics

Regular readers will remember 2GreenEnergy associate Dan Sturges (pictured) as one of the top minds in the future of transportation.  Dan began his career in transportation 30 years ago as a designer at General Motors, and has evolved to become …

CleanTech Businesspeople Cannot Ignore Politics at These Watershed Times Read More »

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I think most of us in the Western world have played the game “Monopoly” and can vividly remember how these wonderful games end, i.e., with two great forces pushing against one another until some combination of luck and skill results …

U.S. History Is about To Take a Dramatic Turn Read More »

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Today is the 1607th anniversary of the first successful invasion of Rome, as the Visigoths’ siege finally burst through the city’s gates and began what was to become the fall of the Roman Empire. Here at 2GreenEnergy, we’ve often made …

Visigoths Unrequired To Topple the American Empire Read More »

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Here’s my first-ever attempt at a meme.  Now, it’s not lost on me that good memes don’t need explanations, but I have to set the context for this. It’s a conversation with a friend in which I advocate ignoring the …

A Different Way To Deal with the World’s Scummiest People Read More »

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Per yesterday’s Writer’s Almanac: On this day in 1974, Richard Nixon officially resigned from the presidency.

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Here’s an article written by a very bright woman who offers 10 reasons she’s no longer a leftist. There are a few good and interesting ideas here.  In particular, there is no doubt that people on the left can be …

The Perils of Being a “Leftist” Read More »

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Here’s an article from ThinkProgress.Org outlining why Elizabeth Southerland, 30-year EPA vet, most recently Director of the Office of Science and Technology for the agency’s Water Office, has resigned from her post.  The reason shouldn’t come as a shock: the Trump …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the “Triumph of Myth over Truth” Read More »

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I met a guy at the farmers’ market just now who asked me what I was doing with my life.  In the course of my explanation, I mentioned that renewables and cleantech generally are facing a stiff headwind associated with …

In Terms of Environmentalism, For Every Action There Is an Equal and Opposite Reaction Read More »

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It’s the birthday of French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville who came to the U.S. about half a century after it was formed to observe and critique its fledgling democracy.  Amazed with what he saw, he wrote in his book Democracy in America (1835): “There …

Alexis de Tocqueville Would Have Written: “Oligarchy in America” Read More »

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Here’s something of such little note, I won’t blame you for skipping it altogether: The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has voted to cut funding for wind and efficiency in half, while expanding research into fossil fuels. 

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