I’ve been asked to speak at a conference next month in Connecticut, and I thought readers may be interested in my outline for the talk: Why cleantech is destined to become the defining industry of the 21st Century Tech in …
Tag: loss of biodiversity
Speaking at the International Trade Forum
Tagged with: but both are occurring simultaneously Carrot/stick: Incentives to lower emissions, but will all arenas within cleantech achieve success? Hell no. Technology innovation, carbon tax The footprint associated with producing red meat Population growth OK, certainly not Washington. Either one will make this happen in a big way, cleantech destined to become the defining industry of the 21st Century, Climate Change, economics and politics (the “tough realities”) all conspire to make this very interesting. So where is this going? I can’t predict the future, electric transportation coming into the mainstream, factors driving the growth of Cleantech, human health issues, internalizing the externalities of fossil fuel consumption. This is being driven by grassroots, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification
Understanding the Subject of Sustainability from Two Opposite Directions
Here’s a short post in response to the altercation between two frequent commenters here, MarcoPolo and Cameron. To summarize this beef in a sentence, Cameron feels passionately that our civilization is headed for a fall due to its shortsightedness on …
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A Few Good Reasons to Short Oil Companies’ Stock
It certainly will be interesting to see how the stock market responds to the situation in which the oil companies will soon find themselves. There are several aspects of this, none of them good for share-holders (though very good for …
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Marketing Can Be Shameless, and the Products It Promotes Can Be Harmful
I’ve been chatting with an old friend who, like me, had a long career in marketing; she became a VP at Grey Advertising. She told me about her experience at a practice round for the PGA Championship (that starts today …
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Tagged with: catastrophic climate change, electric transportation, energy storage, loss of biodiversity, marketing, ocean acidification, renewable energy and all the peripheral technologies, smart grid, sustainable ag, the fossil fuel boys knew 35 years ago that their business model (extracting the last molecule of petroleum out of the ground and burning it
Dealing with the Externalities of Our Major Industries
A reader commented on my post In Choosing Among Various Approaches to Energy, Politics Is a Very Big Deal that I support political action involving an ideological/moral campaign to prevent the eating of red meat. I suppose that would be a decent …
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A Feasible Plan To Migrate To Renewable Energy
A friend asked me if I’d be interested in collaborating on a book that would offer a sensible plan to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. I responded that I’d be thrilled to collaborate on such a project and offered …
Tagged with: and decline of life in the oceans, Citizens United, Climate Change, climate denier shills in Congress, desertification, drilling in the arctic, housecleaning on corporate interests buying elections, internalize the externalities associated with the consumption of fossil fuels, lead the world by example to a decarbonized energy platform, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, sea level rise, sensible plan to replace fossil fuels with renewables energy, subsidies for the oil companies, suck the last molecule of fossil fuels out of the ground
Examining the Rate of Ecological Damage
Here’s an article that will upset its reader: Humans Are Damaging the Environment Faster Than It Can Recover. The author takes into account a wide variety of human activities, e.g., increasing consumption, urbanization, and over-population, and then discusses the environmental …
More on Subsidies for the Oil Companies
A reader comments on my post on subsidies for the oil companies. Thanks for the additional clarity Craig. Your charts also do not allow for infrastructural benefits. The oil lobby weighed in heavily in favor of our national highway system. …
Tagged with: $800B defense budget (larger than the next 16 countries' budgets combined), Big Oil owns the US Congress, global warming, healthcare expenses associated with breathing the aromatics of burned hydrocarbons, long-term environmental damage, loss of biodiversity, National Highway System, ocean acidification, subsidies for the oil companies
Early Television and What We Can Learn From It
Today is the 90th anniversary of the first demonstration of the television, and thus an opportunity for me to tell this little story. The technology of TV was developed before humankind could figure out how to use it, and thus …
A Great Deal of News re: Renewables Energy Will Be Bad Until We Fix This
My fine friend Brian McGowan writes about this article, which offers bad news for the solar industry in Nevada: You know about this right? Yes, I’m aware of it. But it doesn’t come as any surprise given the way we regulate …
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