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Gertrude Stein: We Are Always the Same Age Inside

I had a fairly heated disagreement on a few scientific points with a much younger man the other day that resulted in his later challenging me to search online for what he claimed to be the truth. “UTUBE IT, GRAMPS,”

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Renewable Energy As the Ultimate Political Football

Part of the joy of participating at the Renewable Energy Finance Forums is the diversity of people I get to know, each somehow connected to the business aspects of clean energy. I would suspect that each of the 500 –

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Aeroponics: Boon to Organically Grown Produce

While I’m in the studio next week shooting another round of videos, I plan to highlight 2GreenEnergy’s relationship with Waters Wheel, a company with a bright vision of the future of organic, local-grown farming. The secret sauce here, if there

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Cato Institute Speaks to "Renewables – Following the Money"

I’m interviewing Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow at the right wing think tank Cato Institute when I’m in Washington D.C.  next week, and I’ve spent a good part of the day preparing, checking out a number of Mr. Taylor’s writings and

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Onshore Wind at Grid Parity by 2016

According to Bloomberg, New Energy Finance, improved efficiencies and declining costs will make the average wind farm cost-competitive with coal, gas, and nuclear by 2016 (the best ones already are there). According to Justin Wu, the firm’s lead wind analyst: The

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We'll Have Clean Energy When We Have Justice

A wonderful gentleman, Peter Kusterer, blogger extraordinaire from North Carolina called me the other day, and we chatted for some time. At the conclusion, he graciously asked me to send him any concluding thoughts I might have before he published

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From Guest Blogger Jim Stack: Electricity Used to Make Gas

Did you know that is takes electricity and water to make oil  into gasoline ? This is part of the refining process. The following facts are from a great article that Peder Norby did on oil refining. He walks the talk

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From Guest Blogger Jim Stack: Green Holidays

How can you have a Green Holiday ? It’s not easy since we often travel to visit friends and family. We also do a lot of cooking and eating. You could travel less, take a greener form of transportation and

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Geothermal Heat Pumps Face Strange Barriers to Adoption

Geothermal (Ground-Source) Heat Pumps (GHPs) make use of a completely different set of principles than the kind of geothermal we commonly discuss. Where the latter relies on the transfer of thermal energy from one fluid to another, like an egg

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What do you believe is the truth surrounding China’s aggressive investment in renewable energy?

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