Tag: Is Renewable Really Doable

Dr. Tom Konrad, whom I interviewed for my book “Is Renewable Really Doable?” writes: “New Yorkers for Clean Power‘s energy coaching program (for which I coach) got a mention on Canary Media today.” Here’s the article to which he’s referring, …

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I remember with great fondness the interview I conducted with economist Nate Hagens, Ph.D., as a key part of my second book (Is Renewable Really Doable?).  Nate had invited me to a day-long meeting of the Aspen Institute, and we …

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OMG!  I think I interviewed this guy for a chapter in my second book, “Is Renewable Really Doable?”  He’s a college professor, overseeing a team of graduate students that is working on raising the efficiency of hydrokinetic devices. No, on …

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From Garrison Keillor’s weekly essay: “A walk in the park on a historic day” The young are passionate about the environment and climate change. There are millions of people who cannot imagine modifying their sumptuous lifestyle in the interest of …

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From this piece on jobs and the environment: President Biden announced a goal to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 – and the Biden administration says its $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan will help the country achieve Biden’s climate …

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From Desmog: In January, a trio of climate science deniers with ties to fossil fuel funding published a flawed paper claiming that models of the social cost of carbon pollution are underestimating CO2’s impact on plants and that carbon pollution …

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I’ve known environmentalist Forbes Black for over a decade, but it was only recently that I noticed his penchant for sarcasm, and damn, he’s good at it.

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Here’s a scholarly article in The Economist that discusses the morality of climate change mitigation.  Not surprisingly, it comes down to the question: What value do we place on the lives of other people, in particular, young people and the …

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The chart here (bigger version below) is a reminder of how many Americans have lost their ability to think, or, more precisely, how our beliefs about our thought processes are totally erroneous. In this particular case, rank and file Trump …

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If it weren’t for all the senseless tragedy involved, the gun death epidemic in the U.S. would be a fascinating study of how we’ve simply lost out ability to think, or, more precisely, how our beliefs about our thought processes are …

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