A wide range of scientific studies have shown that fossil fuel extraction, refining and usage causes severe environmental damage, such as ozone depletion, global warming and ocean pollution. Additionally, many of the byproducts of fossil fuel processing, usage and environmental …
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From Guest Blogger Anica Oaks: Clean and Green–Four Critical Steps for Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
From a UK Guest Blogger: Crossing the Bridge to Sustainability–The Benefits Of Sustainable Resources For Our Planet
Ask anyone what the answer to our rapidly decreasing pool of resources is, and they’ll say one word. Sustainability. Full sustainability will allow our planet to be self sufficient, and no longer reliant on the pool of foods and fuels …
From Guest Blogger Lana Hawkins: Small Green Steps for the Brighter Future
Did you know that if every used plastic bottle were to be recycled, we would keep 2 billion tons of plastic out of dump sites? Through simple actions like recycling, using non-toxic products, reducing the use of fossil fuels and …
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Cutting Ties with Fossil Fuels: The Rapid Migration to Renewable Energy
A reader who goes by “Louis” notes: We won’t be 100% free of fossil fuels anytime soon, but like when you start recycling, then composting instead of putting everything in the trash, it is a great start! When I see …
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From Guest Blogger Jane: The Real Cost of Our Increasing Energy Consumption
Making the world a better, healthier, and more sustainable place for future generations is certainly no easy task; if you’re researching environmental law programs, you’ve taken the first step toward making a difference. There are myriad environmental issues fighting for …
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Being Realistic About Renewable Energy
In response to my post Why Venture Capital Isn’t Embracing CleanTech, MarcoPolo makes a lengthy and deeply thoughtful comment, which I excerpt here: ….(You are) a little blind to the harsher side of reality. You tend to see the world as …
Where Are We Headed with Fossil Fuels?
I mentioned (ExxonMobil CEO) Rex Tillerson in an unflattering way in a recent post, based on his refusal to put an environmental scientist on his board of directors. Of course, he is not the only executive in the fossil fuel …
Huge Techno-Velocity Ushering in Renewable Energy
It’s the birthday of Claude Monet, who, according to the Writer’s Almanac, spent his career “exploring the idea that you can never really see the same thing twice.” This, of course, is the notion that guides his numerous paintings of …
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Disruptive Technologies Have Doomed Fossil Fuels
Here’s an author with the right idea: the industrial age, powered as it was by fossil fuels, is at an end. Within a few years (by 2030 according to the book, though I believe it’s happening more quickly), disruptive technologies …
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Social Attitudes Towards Energy Policy Can Change Quickly
The migration of the farmers out of the Oklahoma dust bowl in the 1930s was a story of gut-wrenching passion and sorrow, but the mainstream press in the U.S. was completely uninterested in covering it—until a very specific instant in …
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