I’ve already received several dozen wonderful responses to my request for volunteers and interns; it certainly is gratifying to see the level of enthusiasm that so many of you have for this fascinating and vitally important subject. I thought I’d …
Tag: alternative energy
New Environmental Review for Tar Sands Pipeline
By any standards, the folks at the Sierra Club have been terrifically effective at leaning on government with respect to environmental policy. On November 10, the Obama administration announced that it would order a new environmental review for the Keystone …
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, fossil fuels, green energy, Obama, Renewable Energy, tar sands pipeline
Reclaiming Old Ideas About Sustainability
Novelist Andre Gide once wrote: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” How true that is with respect to sustainability. Sure, we could use a few …
Help Promote Clean Energy on Facebook
Those of you who use Facebook may have already checked out our 2GreenEnergy page (linked here). As you can see, we have a few thousand “likes,” but we could always use more; apparently, liking a Facebook page helps to promote …
Happy Birthday Voltaire!
It’s the 317th birthday of Voltaire, one of my favorite people in history. I loved Candide, the work for which he’s best known today, but I admire him even more for his free-minded political philosophy, exemplified by this pithy remark: …
New Video from The Story of Stuff Nails the Truth About Oil and Clean Energy As Well As Jobs and the Economy
Here’s another must-see video from Annie Leonard at The Story of Stuff, this one called “The Story of Broke.” I hope everyone will invest five minutes and check this out. Note how much of what she’s saying sounds like what …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy Today’s Topic: Talking Trash
Question: How much trash does the average American generate daily? Answer: Can be found HERE. Relevance: As suggested in this brilliant video, The Story of Stuff, our ultra-consumer society is on a crash course with sustainability.
Bashing Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy
Considering the externalities of fossil fuels — from lung disease, to environmental damage, to empowering terrorism, to a crushing national debt – there sure are a bunch of people bashing electric vehicles and renewable energy. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. comments on this …
The UK Has Its Own Opponents to Renewable Energy
Here in the U.S., we have climate change deniers, and all manner of other opponents to renewable energy. In essence, they’re the oil and coal companies, the members of Congress they influence, and those who believe the enormous amount of …
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World Energy Outlook Roars Out a Warning
Here’s the latest report of the International Energy Agency, which is run by many of the world’s largest oil-consuming nations. It’s an annual piece called “World Energy Outlook,” and warns that without radical changes in the world’s energy infrastructure in …
