Here’s the first edition of Green Auto Digest for the New Year, from my colleague Jon LeSage. The take-away is that the two most important trends in transportation, i.e., autonomous vehicles and alt-fuel, are both moving forward at an impressive …
Tag: environmental regulation
What’s Driving the Move To CleanTech?
Tagged with: alt-fuel vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, energy storage, environmental regulation, environmental stewardship, EPA, Green Auto Digest, rapid migration towards clean energy, Secretary of Energy, smart grid, staggering amounts of money in solar and wind
Do We Care About the Environment? It Depends on How the Issues Are Framed
Here’s an article the theme of which I’ve seen before, called behavioral economics. In essence, people’s reaction to a certain subject, and their buying behavior, is to a huge degree a function of the words used to describe it. I’m reminded of …
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FedEx Chairman Fred Smith on Energy, Environment, World Trade
Here’s a recently recorded hour-long interview with Fred Smith, CEO and Chairman of FedEx. He’s always impressed me with his extremely astute viewpoints on world trade. Obviously, I’m not as appreciative of his anti-regulation position as it applies to environmental …
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Restraining Those Who Wish To Profit at the Expense of the Rights of Others
A reader sent me this very clever article that was published in 1969 by Garret Hardin called “The Tragedy of the Commons” with a note that read, “Here’s something that I think might resonate with you.” I respond: Wow, that …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Environmental Regulation
Question: Are there cases in human history in which changes made in environmental regulation have made a dramatic and measurable positive difference? Answer: Can be found at http://2greenenergy.com/cool-guess-answers/8732. Relevance: Perhaps too many believe that man’s continuing assault against the natural environment …
Energy Policy and the Skyrocketing Rates of Certain Childhood Diseases
Over the years, I’ve learned that the most productive way to deal with climate change deniers is to point out that global warming is only one of half-a-dozen reasons to knock off our dependence on coal and oil. “Just pick …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, Amherst MA, asthma, CDC, clean energy, climate change deniers, coal-fired power plants, dependence on coal and oil, energy policy, environmental regulation, global climate change, global warming, green energy, Renewable Energy, skyrocketing rate of respiratory disease, skyrocketing rates of childhood diseases, Sylvia Brandt
