Because of my association with clean energy, it appears my email has found its way onto distribution lists associated with progress causes. I received a note recently on ending gun violence in my home town, Santa Ynez, California, which culminated …
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Don Harmon's Eco-Friendly House
Longtime 2GreenEnergy supporter Don Harmon wants to live in an eco-friendly house of his own design, and, according to this article, it seems that he’s making great progress in that direction. Go, Don!
From Guest Blogger Luke Clum: Sustainability Isn't Just About the Environment
Once the stuff of a marginalized green movement, these days the word “sustainability” is just about everywhere you look. This is particularly true in marketing materials for agriculture businesses, in a hurry to out-green one another. But sustainable farming doesn’t …
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Global Cleantech Venture Investment Dips 33% to $6.45 Billion
Yesterday I spent an hour taking in a terrific webinar from the Cleantech Group, conducted by what I’m sure must have been one of its most senior consultants, Sheeraz Haji, who ably walked us through some of the 2012 numbers …
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Bringing Clean Energy Solutions to Off-Grid Cell Tower Operations
Here are two clean energy ideas that deal with bringing power to cell towers in off-grid locations, where diesel generators are the norm. Before I present them, let’s think about the obvious drawbacks of diesel: • Needs to be trucked in …
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Social Consciousness and Civilization's Sustainability
Yesterday was the birthday of Rod Serling, creator of the iconic mid-20th Century television program “The Twilight Zone.” According to the Writer’s Almanac, “Serling believed it was the writer’s job to ‘menace the public consciousness’ and considered television and radio as …
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A Nice Gift for Christmas: Sustainability
Girl (pictured here): Well, I want a peaceful, sustainable world, where humankind comes together to deal with its major challenges, you know, climate change, social injustice — that kind of thing. Can you make that happen? Santa: Ho ho …
Sustainability Requires Social Fairness and Justice
My mother, who reads this blog regularly, hates it when I come out in support of concepts that could be viewed as leftist – and even if that weren’t the case, I try to tread lightly on the political content …
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At Issue in the 21st Century: Coal-Fired Power Plants
As we bump along into a new year, perhaps it’s time to ask ourselves: What do the world’s scientists tell us about our course vis-à-vis sustainability? Well, a lot of things, really. For example, our oceans are over-fished and filled …
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Rethinking the Sustainable Generation and Consumption of Electricity
As this article suggests, everywhere one looks in the new energy industry one finds references to disruptive technologies, not only in the various “flavors” of renewable energy, but in the basic ways in which electricity is delivered. Take DG (distributed …
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