Author: Craig Shields

Funride’s Director of Operations Pat Mahan discusses alternative fuel vehicles and the fantastic social and personal benefits of car sharing with me on a recent episode of the 2GreenEnergy Report. I’ve known about Funride for a couple of years, and …

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Many of the great consultants in green business practices have developed ways of introducing their clients to topics like LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design – the internationally recognized green building certification system) and biomimicry (taking lessons from the …

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Occasionally I write on political and philosophical points that have important but indirect effect on renewables. As a result, folks sometimes want me to link to their blogs in spaces that are off-topic to clean energy. If you’re interested, here’s …

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I appreciate all the comments on my piece on the BP oil spill. Here’s a note that I just put up on Renewable Energy World on the Gulf tragedy.

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk2C60MmOE0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1] Sam Smith discusses the use of renewable energy to fuel electric vehicles with me on a recent episode of the 2GreenEnergy Report.

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Occasionally, we all run into people with a doctrinaire political opinion as to exactly how and why the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, and what specifically should be done about it.  Sometimes this comes from a leftist …

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Author and ammonia-as-fuel advocate Greg Vezina writes: As part of the research for my upcoming book, I include a complete analysis of the subsidies to all forms of energy. This took a lot of work. In today’s Globe, there is …

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Part of the reason that Bill Paul is so bullish on Northern Africa as a financial center for rrenewable energy is obvious: the Sahara Desert. Especially ripe for concentrated solar power, the desert is the solution to Europe’s thirst for …

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I know I’m not alone in my mistrust of the media. Yet I have to think that Time Magazine nailed the biofuels issue in their 2008 article on sustainability and the Amazon rain forest. Particularly telling is the revolting political …

Biofuels, Sustainability and the Amazon Rain Forest Read More »

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In the process of writing my book on renewables I read quite a few others, including Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (2009) by Dr. David JC MacKay. This is a fanstically worthwhile project by a professor of physics …

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