Here’s a fun little challenge you may want to take. Tune into some of the non-stop coverage of Hurricane Matthew, and count how many times climate change is mentioned. I’ll give you a warning: don’t hold your breath. That’s because …
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Celebrating Human Excellence
If you get the opportunity to watch historian/documentarian Ken Burns deliver a lecture on the National Parks, or anything else for that matter, I urge you to seize it. I had the pleasure of being one of a couple of …
From Guest Blogger Randy Carlson: Solar Osmosis–a Better Drought Solution for the Southwest
America’s Southwest is running out of water. Reservoirs are drying up, and our population continues to grow. Our cities, our high-value agriculture, our environment and our future all depend on water resources we don’t have. One abundant resource the Southwest …
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, Climate Change, green energy, Renewable Energy, solar energy, sustainability
Speaking at the International Trade Forum
I’ve been asked to speak at a conference next month in Connecticut, and I thought readers may be interested in my outline for the talk: Why cleantech is destined to become the defining industry of the 21st Century Tech in …
Tagged with: but both are occurring simultaneously Carrot/stick: Incentives to lower emissions, but will all arenas within cleantech achieve success? Hell no. Technology innovation, carbon tax The footprint associated with producing red meat Population growth OK, certainly not Washington. Either one will make this happen in a big way, cleantech destined to become the defining industry of the 21st Century, Climate Change, economics and politics (the “tough realities”) all conspire to make this very interesting. So where is this going? I can’t predict the future, electric transportation coming into the mainstream, factors driving the growth of Cleantech, human health issues, internalizing the externalities of fossil fuel consumption. This is being driven by grassroots, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification
Attack on Science
For those wishing to understand the current status of the war that the U.S. congress is waging against science, I heartily recommend this piece from The New Yorker. Warning: This is really Orwellian. Lamar Smith, the Texas congressman who chairs …
Why Some Smart People Endorse a Business-As-Usual Approach to Energy and the Environment
Reader Upgeya Pew offers a very plausible explanation for why Ian Bremmer, a person of incredible intelligence, could posit that one of the benefits of climate change is creating easier access to Arctic oil. Pew notes: Bremmer is well paid …
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Understanding the Subject of Sustainability from Two Opposite Directions
Here’s a short post in response to the altercation between two frequent commenters here, MarcoPolo and Cameron. To summarize this beef in a sentence, Cameron feels passionately that our civilization is headed for a fall due to its shortsightedness on …
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A Few Good Reasons to Short Oil Companies’ Stock
It certainly will be interesting to see how the stock market responds to the situation in which the oil companies will soon find themselves. There are several aspects of this, none of them good for share-holders (though very good for …
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Talking Points for Craig Shields’ Interview with the Wall Street Business Network
One of my colleagues is trying to put together an interview for me with the Wall Street Business Network, and asked me to develop some “talking points” to provide an example of how this might unfold. I just knocked out …
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Tipping Points in Climate Change
A term popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2000 best seller, a tipping point is a moment at which linear, predictable change of a certain phenomenon achieves critical mass and becomes runaway exponential change. Cell phone ownership and the adoption …
