Recently, I wrote a few pieces around the concept, “The New Living Large Is Living Small.” The concept suggests that society will experience significant upheaval when it becomes “cool” to be “green.” I don’t want to over-aggrandize the importance of my …
Tag: alternative energy
Our Rate of Energy Consumption: Unsustainable
Reader and cool guy Brian McGowan writes in: I once read something that I think applies here. In the old days before cars, people rode horses for transportation. 1 horse for 1 person. What can we take away from this? …
Jeremy Rifkin — Advising on Climate Change Since 1981
I’ve finally gotten around to reading Jeremy Rifkin’s fabulous The Third Industrial Revolution, which includes the following: In 1981, The Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, a legislative service organization made up of more than one hundred congressmen and senators, invited …
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Edison Predicted Cheap Energy
132 years ago today, Thomas Edison first demonstrated his incandescent lightbulb and told spectators: “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.” Not a bad prediction, when you think about it. Few people grouse about …
Tagged with: alternative energy, cheap energy, clean energy, green energy, Renewable Energy, Thomas Edison
Small and Affordable Battery Electric Vehicles
Lots of folks are wondering what the future of transportation looks like. While none of us knows for sure, we can have some level of certainty as to what it does not look like: a 4000 pound hunk of steel, …
Some Good News for Us Green Energy People — For a Change
I often consider how most of the content here is essentially bad news: climate change, ocean acidification, empowering terrorists, oil companies’ propaganda, corporatocracy, governmental corruption, and public ignorance and apathy. But here’s some good news: Traffic at 2GreenEnergy in 2011 …
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Comment on “The New Living Large Is Living Small”
In response to my piece suggesting that “the new living large is living small,” Erik writes: I agree that many people will eventually see consumerism as utter foolishness. I also have to agree with some commentators here that this will …
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Renewable Energy – Following the Money
For those interested in tracking the progress I’m making in writing my third book, here is the title: Renewable Energy – Following the Money. The project is based on the notion that the migration from fossil fuels will happen precisely when …
Living Large Means Living Small — and Other Messages of Kindness
In response to my piece on “living small,” frequent commenter Arlene writes: Well said, Craig. It is unfortunate (for me) that I don’t believe humans will do the “right thing” until their backs are up against it. I totally understand. …
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Inductive Charging Offers Advantages in Electric Transportation
I’ve been lucky enough to derive so much pleasure from business travel – and to conduct so much business during personal trips — that I long ago ceased to try to separate the two. Case in point: this trip back …
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