Earlier this week I wrote a post expressing my disgust over the US Supreme Court’s announcement that it had found major provisions of campaign finance reform to be unconstitutional. This paved the way for corporate and union money to mute …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Obama's State of the Union Address and Energy Policy
Here’s a post I wrote on Renewable Energy World on president Obama’s State of the Union address the other night. I like to support Obama for his efforts along a number of lines, especially a progressive energy policy. But to …
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Renewable Energy is Coming – But Why?
The other day I wrote a post on my Renewable Energy World blog which garnered a number of interesting comments that I thought I’d pass along. I began the post by indicating that important events in the world generally happen …
Call for Guest Bloggers
Do you have something you’d like to say to the thousands of people who visit us here at 2GreenEnergy? Would you like to write on the technology, the business, or the political aspects of what is arguably the most important …
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Say Adios to Campaign Finance Reform
I have to laugh. Yesterday I happened to mention campaign finance reform, hoping, in my boyish naivete, for a miracle that would somehow enable our leaders to push for legislature that favors people, rather than corporate interests. But what happened …
Clean Energy Will Happen — But Not for the Right Reasons
Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, and he was removed from power, but it only came to pass because he happened to become the target of the hubris of G.W. Bush. Just as Hussein’s ouster was a good thing …
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Renewable Energy and Morality
In the talk Dr. David Mills gave recently in on solar thermal, he closed by telling his audience that renewable energy was “a moral issue,” meaning, of course, that we as a species have a series of related ethical obligations …
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Optimism at RenewableEnergyWorld
I posted this optimistic year-end piece on RenewableEnergyWorld. The availability of solutions to our planet’s many woes is really a function of the number of people who get involved and insist that their voices be heard. And, as I’ve noted in …
Oilman Psychology
I conducted my interview with ex-CIA director James Woolsey a few days ago, for the “national security” chapter of my book on renewables. I just posted a blog on RenewableEnergyWorld — getting into the subject of oilman psychology and cowboy …
Preaching to the Choir
The only downside I see to spending a few minutes of my life every day writing a new blog post is the concern I have for “preaching to the choir.” With few exceptions, it seems to me that the people …
