In a blog post offering my “Tough Realities for Renewable Businesses” report to readers at Renewable Energy World, Bill Fitch writes a comment befitting of the 4th of July and the patriotic spirit that normally accompanies it. I’m reminded of …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Why the US Isn’t Taking a Leading Role in Renewable Energy
Perhaps the most common refrain in the clean energy industry is this: Why isn’t the US taking a leading role? Why are countries all over the world leap-frogging us Americans in this critical arena? Of course our own Bill Paul talks …
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US Policy on Clean Energy – The Road Not Taken?
A friend from the UK asked for my take on a new Swiss movie on Jimmy Carter’s efforts to reduce the United States’ dependence on oil at the end of the 1970s. He points out, “I am sure it will …
The Precautionary Principle and the Gulf Oil Spill
Many of the great consultants in green business practices have developed ways of introducing their clients to topics like LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design – the internationally recognized green building certification system) and biomimicry (taking lessons from the …
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Campaign Finance Reform and the First Amendment
Occasionally I write on political and philosophical points that have important but indirect effect on renewables. As a result, folks sometimes want me to link to their blogs in spaces that are off-topic to clean energy. If you’re interested, here’s …
Will the Gulf Oil Tragedy Affect the Migration to Clean Energy?
I appreciate all the comments on my piece on the BP oil spill. Here’s a note that I just put up on Renewable Energy World on the Gulf tragedy.
Politics and Simplicity
Gulf Oil Spill — Sadness and Disgust
We all share a deep sadness and disgust over the Gulf oil spill. Of course, the pragmatists among us are less interested in affixing blame than we are in resolving the issue, and ultimately containing and cleaning up the mess. …
Tagged with: Army Corps of Engineers, gulf oil spill, Norway, Obama, OSHA, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands
California's Proposition 16 Defeated — A Victory for Energy's Good Guys
As I mentioned on Renewable Energy World, I take great pleasure in announcing a victory for the good guys in energy over the bad. California voters – I among them – defeated “Proposition 16” – signifying our outrage at Pacific …
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Destroying the Rainforest
As I noted in today’s Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor, it’s the birthday of the biologist E. O. Wilson, who reminds us: “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
