Chris Hedges is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, professor at Princeton University, author of several New York Times best-sellers, and Presbyterian minister, who’s written extensively on democracy and fascism, and the delicate balance that exists between the two. Here’s an …
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Microgrids in Brooklyn
A colleague in Germany sent me this article in yesterday’s New York Times called, “Solar Experiment Lets Neighbors Trade Energy Among Themselves” and noted that she thought I’d find it interesting. Yes, this is VERY interesting. In particular, it’s a …
Tagged with: bringing electricity to parts of the developing world that have never experience it before, Microgrids in Brooklyn, microgrids in the third world afford the opportunity to leapfrog over fossil fuel plants, New York Times, paradigm in electrification, renewables, Solar Experiment Lets Neighbors Trade Energy Among Themselves
David Brooks: “What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like”
We use the term “unsustainable” a great deal here, referring to processes that lack the potential to continue indefinitely into the future. Normally, we mean processes that have some bearing on environmental justice; things like consumption of fossil fuels or …
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Why Electric Bikes Are Cool
In addition to all the practical considerations associated with the electric vehicle adoption curve, there is the “cool factor.” But that’s a little nebulous, isn’t it? The subject of “what makes something cool” has been studied exhaustively, and it’s unclear …
The True Gating Factor Limiting the Adoption of Renewable Energy
Our public relations ace Annemarie Osbourne just sent me this brilliant article from the New York Times: How Producing Clean Power Turned Out to Be a Messy Business. This is a terrific piece that offers a great deal of truth of …
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The Trump Plan on Energy and the Environment: You Don’t Want to Hear It
Here’s some apocalyptic stuff for your Friday morning: an article from today’s New York Times entitled: Donald Trump’s Energy Plan: More Fossil Fuels and Fewer Rules, explaining his plans to add jobs in coal mines and cancel the Paris climate …
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Talking About ExxonMobil’s Behaviour on Climate Change
I wanted to publish this little discussion I just had with Peter B. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Economics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Environmental Policy and Management (CEPM) at the University of Louisville, who currently …
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In Some Measure, Climate Change Is Self-Correcting
Here’s an article from the New York Times that makes an important point: as industry becomes increasingly aware that climate change is cutting into its bottom line, it takes action – and that action tends to (though does not always) …
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Rethinking the Regulation of Our Electric Utilities
Here’s an article that points to one of the many issues we face in our quest to integrate large amounts of solar energy into our grid-mix: all this distributed generation is making it tough for the utilities. In 43 of …
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Will Climate Get Some Respect Now? Sorry, The Answer's Unclear
For those of you who might have missed it, here’s Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on climate change in yesterday’s New York Times. Referring to the take-away from Hurricane Sandy, the twice-Pulizer winning journalist calls it Will Climate Get Some Respect Now? …
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