Category: Renewables – Business

The State of Virginia is taking aggressive action to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in the coming decades, pledging to get to 100% clean energy by 2050.

Tagged with: , , , , ,

Here’s a cool video of people, many of whom are in quarantine, calling upon NY State lawmakers to divest all pension holdings of fossil fuels.  Some cite environmental issues, but others point to something even more immediate: they don’t like …

State of New York Calling On Legislators To Divest Pension Plans of Fossil Fuel Interests Read More »

Tagged with:

Insofar as I like to keep an ear to the ground for new ideas in cleantech, I’ll be attending the monthly Keiretsu conference tomorrow, virtually, of course.

Tagged with: , ,

Regular readers may know the name Annemarie Osbourne, 2GreenEnergy’s “associate” in the public relations field. Annemarie just wrote to me from her home in Southern Germany with a concept she supports for stimulating the growth of cleantech. 

Tagged with: , , , , , ,

Here’s a story of the Spanish power behemoth Iberdrola and how they intend to “turbocharge” the world economy with a skyrocketing growth curve in renewable energy, after the core of the coronavirus is behind us. We’d all love to see …

Hot Growth Curve in Renewable Energy Read More »

Tagged with:

The meme here comes from former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich.  What does it mean? Well, at a minimum, it shows that the stock market and the financial well-being of the common American have absolutely no bearing on one another.  …

The Economy Is Not the Stock Market Read More »

Tagged with: ,

Here’s an announcement from Toyota.  It’s in Spanish, so my translation may not be perfect, but roughly:  A new company will be formed under the Toyota umbrella, Toyota Green Energy, whose goal is to fashion a society in which people, …

Toyota Green Energy Read More »

Tagged with:

The ubiquity of news coverage on the cornavirus has offered the fossil fuel industry an opening no one could have anticipated: the opportunity to claim that our civilization is too busy to worry about anything else.  They’re using this to …

Pursuing a Coronavirus Vaccine and Renewable Energy Solutions: Walking and Chewing Gum Read More »

Tagged with: , , ,

Anyone driving to the grocery store can see that COVID-19 has dramatically reduced demand for gasoline and diesel.  That, coupled with low oil prices, has caused the fossil fuel companies to cut their investment in renewables and other carbon mitigation …

Big Oil Ceases To Invest in Renewables—Zzzzzzzz Read More »

Tagged with: , , , ,

Regular readers know that big oil companies, ExxonMobil in particular, are facing enormous legal liability associated with lying to the public, especially shareholders, about what they knew as early as 1980 concerning the danger that climate change represents and the …

Fox News Braces for Massive Amounts of Litigation re: Coronavirus Lies Read More »

Tagged with: , , ,