I know what it’s like to struggle to be heard. Yes, 2GreenEnergy has 6K+ subscribers, but I sure wish it were 6M+ or 60M+. That’s why it’s so easy to appreciate the creativity others are showing in developing novel ways …
Category: Renewables – Business
The Migration to Renewables Is Often Political, Thus Painfully Slow
Regarding my recent piece The Caribbean: Making Renewables Happen, a childhood friend with whom I’ve recently reconnected Candace Sneberger (of international travel fame) writes: When will be get the USVI (U.S. Virgin Islands) on board with renewable energy? So glad …
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Book Publishing Has Hot Moments
Environmentalist Paul Hawken ended his talk today at the Bioneers conference with a story about the publishing of his latest book Drawdown, that presents the myriad ways of reversing the decline of our ecosystems. Apparently, Penguin Random House had heartburn …
Bill McKibben Talks Divestment at the Bioneers Conference
I just had the pleasure of meeting one of my heroes, Bill McKibben, here at the Bioneers conference. The University of California system has just divested its endowment and pension plans of fossil fuels. That’s $3 billion. Shell Oil warns …
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The Caribbean: Making Renewables Happen
Here’s an old maxim: People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. Wow, that applies so beautifully to the rapid migration to renewable energy. We get comments all the time promoting coal and …
War Is an Industry, and Money Talks
A reader notes: We are safe here in (Los Angeles suburb) Granada Hills. Heroic fire fighters kept the blaze about two miles away. Other neighborhoods around us have not been so fortunate.
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Saying Goodbye To Rick Perry at the U.S. Energy Department
It appears that Rick Perry will be stepping down as U.S. Secretary of Energy, perhaps related to his being swept up in the Ukrainian outrage. In all fairness, Perry has had a fairly scandal-free tenure at the DoE, though his …
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The Future Is China
Let’s suppose that next 50 years produces no unpredictable Earth-shattering events. Let’s speculate that the world of 2070, given what we see today re: environmental decay/climate change, the trend towards fascism, the threat of nuclear war, and all the rest …
Big Coal Has Big Friends
Recently, we reported that U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry (pictured) made an unsuccessful attempt to bail out the failing coal industry. His grand idea was to pass legislation that would subsidize energy sources that are physically located near the plants …
The Stock Market Is Not the Economy, But…
The price of a share of stock is a function of the expectations that buyers and sellers have for the underlying company’s future earnings.
