This Month’s Webinar: Is Renewable Really Doable?
I hope you’ll be able to join us for our monthly webinar, in which 2GreenEnergy business manager George Alger interviews me on my new book:
Is Renewable Really Doable? Exploring Clean Energy’s Opportunities and Tough Realities
The traditional energy industry is hell-bent on preserving the status quo as long as possible – and who could possibly wonder why? These are the wealthiest people on Earth. Are we to expect that they miraculously want to cease sitting on top of the world?
But our skies and oceans are filling up with the effluent of their outmoded, damaging practices, and the warming of our planet threatens the health and safety of every living thing on the planet. At the same time, a large and growing number of us non-billionaires are crying foul, and committing ourselves to do something about it. Who will win?
Personally, I’m curious as the devil to find the answer, which is why I hit the road recently, conducting interviews with people of science: physicists, anthropologists, mathematicians, and economists – as well as folks from the humanities: sociologists and philosophers – to prepare this, my second book on the subject.
Not to give anything away, but the energy scene on Earth right now is a pretty tough calculus. We have cheap natural gas, global climate change deniers, the U.S. recession, the European debt crisis, two trillion dollars of private capital sitting on the sidelines (and one trillion dollars sitting idly in banks), China’s ascendancy, a horribly out-of-date electrical grid, and yes, the enormous power wielded by the lobbyists hired by the energy industry. There is hope, but where exactly does it lie?
I hope you can join us on Tuesday, January 17 at 10 AM PST, for this fast-paced discussion, during which we’ll field your questions live.
REGISTER HERE:
http://2greenenergy.com/free-webinar/
[…] Plan B: We aggressively adopt what Jeremy Rifkin and others refer to as “The Third Industrial Revolution,” which contemplates continued economic growth by focusing on renewable energy and the many other components of sustainability. As Rifkin conceives this, there are “five pillars” at play here: shifting to renewable energy, developing buildings as power plants, deploying hydrogen and other storage technologies, using Internet technology, and transitioning the transport fleet to electric, plug-in and fuel cell vehicles. Not to give anything away, but this concept is embraced by several of the people I interviewed in my second book, due out shortly: “Is Renewable Really Doable?” […]