I try not to comment on political issues that have no direct bearing on clean energy, or sustainability more generally. Having said that, I have indeed taken up the mantle of MoveToAmend.org, in its fight to overturn corporations’ recently granted rights to …
Category: Renewables – Politics
[The Vector] The French Vote: No Fracking!
France has outlawed hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique for extracting natural gas and oil. French senators voted the measure through on July 2nd, after much hoopla this year. As BusinessWeek reported on April 4th 2011, Jose Bove, a French …
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China Appears Committed To Renewables — But Why?
As we all well know, China is front and center on the world stage when it comes to energy. The “awakening giant” is simultaneously the world’s biggest polluter and most aggressive clean energy investor, with bold, fully committed plans to …
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Why Is the US So Ineffective in Cleantech?
When I wrote the other day: “Every day we read about the global dominance that China is achieving in cleantech, and wish the US could get on the stick as well,” a well-meaning reader wrote back: “It makes you sad …
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Energy Policy Needs to Come from “Enlightened Government”
In his farewell address in 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower, warned us: “You and I, and our government must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow.” I was …
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Justice, Tim DeCristopher, and the Bureau of Land Management
My schoolboy education in Philadelphia in the 1960 and early 1970s was provided by Quakers – avowed pacifists, who characteristically objected to the Vietnam War, many of whom were no strangers to civil disobedience to get their points across. Wilbert …
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Eviscerating Our Environmental Regulations Removes Incentive for Clean Energy
Frequent commenter John Sullivan asks: How can you cite “eviscerating environmental regulations” as a factor in our lack of competitiveness, when China has a horrible record and is arguably using their “green” investments as a shield for now? It’s probably …
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Man Bites Dog: Conservative Columnist David Brooks Nailed This
Only once in a blue moon do I comment on the idiocies of the US Congress, and even less frequently that I extol the wisdom of conservative columnist David Brooks. But he has most certainly gotten this one right. In …
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Feeling Patriotic? Why Not Let Your Voice Be Heard?
A friend of mine has a T-shirt that defines the word “patriotism” as “not letting our leaders ruin our country by ignoring the principles on which it was founded.” Food for thought as we go into the 4th of July …
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The Rockefellers and The History of Energy in the US
Occasionally I wonder why I spend so much time blogging on the energy industry — not because I think what I do is inconsequential, but because I come across someone whose message — or level of talent in delivering that …
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