When it finally became obvious about ten years ago that electric transportation was becoming a real “thing,” one that would ultimately dominate and then replace the internal combustion engine, most of us believed that the form factor of these vehicles …
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Marketing Can Be Shameless, and the Products It Promotes Can Be Harmful
I’ve been chatting with an old friend who, like me, had a long career in marketing; she became a VP at Grey Advertising. She told me about her experience at a practice round for the PGA Championship (that starts today …
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Combining the Philosophies of Environmental Advocacy with Entrepreneurial Spirit
A reader notes: Craig, the world desperately needs advocates like yourself. My fear is that wasting your talents on impractical rhetoric is irresponsible…. (I fear) you are squandering your considerable talent and credibility by embarking on a fruitless and erroneous crusade. …
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Note on Algal Biofuels
Here’s the latest installment of my colleague Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest, which includes a fairly full treatment on algae biofuels. He believes they’re at a critical juncture as a viable clean transportation fuel, and writes: A few years ago, algae …
From Guest Blogger Rebecca Hill: Eight Reasons EVs are the Future of Transportation
Whether you’re glued to Google headlines or the New York Times, reading the next headline about electric vehicles probably gives you a rush. Perhaps, it was news of Apple’s interest in charging stations that caught your attention. Or maybe it’s …
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Developing World Leading a Renewable Energy Boom–And Everyone Benefits
There is no doubt that the ultra-low price of gasoline and diesel has made it tough for electric transportation, and, to a degree, renewable energy. Yet, remarkably, the world is experiencing a considerable boom in the clean energy space.
Making Tough Choices Re: Fossil Fuels
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
Got a CleanTech Business Concept? Send It Along
It’s about time for me to re-offer a free service that I’ve been delivering happily for the last seven years: business plan evaluation. Suppose you have an idea for a cleantech business—anything in renewable energy, electric transportation, smart-grid, energy storage, sustainable …
The Viability of Electric Transportation
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty and I have ongoing discussions about the legitimacy of electric transportation. I wrote recently about the coming hockey-stick growth curve that I expect to see in this space, to which Glenn replies:
A Historical Look at Lighting Efficiency
Until the last quarter of the nineteenth Century, the use of electrical power had only a very few functions within American industry and commerce. However, with Thomas Edison’s invention of the first electric light bulb featuring a long-lasting filament in …
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