What College Students Interested in Renewable Energy Should Study
A fine young man, Rudy Chavarilla, called me this morning from American Amp and interviewed me for about half an hour. We recorded a show on the subject: What college should students do vis-à-vis sustainability that will be distributed to over 300 college radio stations.
This whole process makes me feel good all over. I honestly love to speak with college students, though when I do, I have a habit of throwing in the kind of cliches that embarrass the bejeepers out of my kids. “Enjoy these brief moments. These are the best years of your life. Read great books. Learn to live an examined life. Kiss a few good-looking members of the opposite sex.” Seriously, my kids want to barf when they hear me I carry on like this. So I thought the better of going down that road, and answered the interviewer’s questions without any of this sort of editorializing. (more…)
In the course of something I wrote yesterday I noted: “In large measure, the world is in its deplorable condition precisely because we tolerate it.” What I should have known is that this sentiment was expressed 100 times better by one of the great Americans in history: abolitionist, lecturer, author and slave Frederick Douglass:
You may have noticed that I sometimes take controversial points of view in what I write here at 2GreenEnergy. And when I take on an issue like the morality of the oil companies, the validity of cold fusion, or the corruption that Big Money perpetrates on our government, you’ve probably seen that I get comments that range from “brilliant/right on!” to “you’re a fool/get lost.”
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A reader comments on my recent report on China and renewable energy:
I’m trying to arrange a meeting with one of 2GreenEnergy’s great supporters, an international, high-flying guy whose fantastic biomass-to-energy project I support without reservation. His base in the U.S. is Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a place I like a great deal, but I don’t visit often on business. When I asked about his travel schedule, hoping to arrange a mutually agreeable meeting place and time, he wrote: “I’m in Vegas often for the UFC fights (“ultimate fighting”); I love them and try not to miss one when I’m in the States. I look forward to meeting you.”
A significant part of the stimulus money from the Department of Energy has enabled homeowners to perform extremely cost-effective retrofits for energy efficiency. A lovely and articulate spokesperson from 
