Here’s the executive summary of the IEA’s (International Energy Agency) 2013 World Energy Outlook. No surprise: it expresses concern about climate change from our unabating reliance on fossil fuels, which represents about two-thirds of our total greenhouse gas emissions. Although …
Tag: energy policy
Environmentalism Places a Burden on the Poor
Frequent commenter and colleague Tim Kingston sent me this piece about the burden that environmentalism places on the poor and asks: Are things really this bad in CA? I respond: Of course, a tax on our consumption of energy hits …
Energy from Coal Is Not Going Away
I know I have a tendency to carp about dozens of issues: Chevron in Ecuador, the lack of an energy policy in the U.S., certain senators who don’t know the difference between methane and carbon dioxide—and others who use certain …
Tagged with: Chevron Corporation, Climate Change, climate change mitigation, energy policy, Middle Ages
From Guest Blogger Sara: Sweden – An Energy Policy Model For the U.S.
President Obama’s recent press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeld elicited an important comment. The U.S. could learn about sustainable development from Sweden. President Obama believes that Sweden is far ahead in maintaining a sustainable planet as opposed to …
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The U.S. Is Squandering Its Energy Resources
Here’s an author who believes that the U.S., with its appalling failure to establish an energy policy, is squandering its energy resources — and he’s 100% correct. A good example he raises is natural gas (not that I favor his approach). If …
Michael T. Klare on Energy Policy and Sustainability
Of all the articles I read on the subject of energy and sustainability, I can’t think of any I more eagerly anticipate than those of Michael T. Klare. Like the one linked above, they’re not generally good news; they tend …
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Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley – and a Note on Sustainability
Aldous Huxley would be 119 years old today. I read his Brave New World in a course I had in college called “Social Ideals and Ideal Societies,” which I took for a very noble reason: a pretty girl I liked …
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Like It Or Not, Our Energy Policy Actually Affects Our Prospects for Survival
I happened to tune into U.S.-based broadcast network CBS’s weekly “Sunday Morning” just now and noticed that it featured a look at the future of humankind, a subject in which I take a keen interest. Not too surprisingly, the piece …
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Energy Policy and the Adoption of Renewables
Renewable Energy World does a good job at tracking the adoption of clean energy at all levels, including continental. Here’s an article that explains why Europe is unlikely to achieve its goal of 20% penetration of renewables by 2020. While …
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From Guest Blogger John Robbins: Al Gore and the Role of Government in Our Energy Policy
Yesterday I finished Gore’s new book THE FUTURE: 6 DRIVERS OF GLOBAL CHANGE. Overall a good read. But Gore pushes mostly centralized political policies and corporation-led mostly high-tech changes to reach his proposed solutions to so many interrelated problems. He …
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