When I travel, I spend a fair amount of time in rental cars, which provides me with more opportunity to listen to radio programming on our civilization’s challenges and opportunities than I have when I’m home. One of the themes …
Tag: energy efficiency
Clean Energy’s Low-Hanging Fruit
Frequent commenter Larry Lemmert waxes metaphorical with the respect to our clean energy targets: We need to go after the low-hanging fruit before climbing the tree and going out on a limb to harvest energy that has a negative payback …
Energy Policy’s Difficult Choices
I recently wrote a post critical of radical environmentalists who take rigid positions and refuse to make the tough choices that confront us all in the real world. In particular, I stand in disagreement with people’s unwillingness to exile the …
This Month’s Webinar: Sustainable Supplies of Food
Clean energy is just a part of the overall sustainability movement, yet it stands at the center of so many important issues. For example, the world supply of water and food are dependent on abundant energy, thus our very survival …
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Santa Barbara Celebrates Earth Day
This afternoon I plan to take my daughter and a few of her friends down to the magnificent celebration of Earth Day that the city of Santa Barbara puts together each year. The show grows in scope each year; last …
Tagged with: clean transportation, cleantech, Earth Day, energy efficiency, reduce re-use recycle, renewables, Santa Barbara
2GreenEnergy at the 2012 Cleantech Forum
I plan to attend the last day (Wednesday, March 28th) of the 10th Cleantech Forum, to be held in San Francisco. The show does a great job in pulling together cleantech innovators, investors, corporate leaders and policy-makers from around the …
Are Electric Vehicles Really a Boon to the Environment?
There are at least two kinds of “EV deniers” (as I call them), i.e., people who doubt that electric vehicles represent an improvement for the environment over gasoline. The first concept is that for the foreseeable future, an increase in …
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Tagged with: boon to the environment, boron, coal-fired power plants, cobalt, dysprosium, Electric Vehicles, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, energy storage, EV deniers, EVs, EVs batteries and powertrains, externalities of fossil fuels, lanthanum, lithium, national security, neodymium, renewables, shortage of non-ferrous metals, smart grid
For the Home Buyer: An Energy Efficiency “MPG” Sticker
I had breakfast when I was back in New York last week with my friend and colleague Tom Konrad of AltEnergyStocks.com, during which we talked about all the “long-hanging fruit” for reducing the environmental impact associated with generating and consuming energy. …
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A Lot To Like About Forester Media’s Distributed Energy
<img class="alignleft" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border-width: 0px;" title="” src=”http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww83/craigshields/Generator_sets.jpg” alt=”Photobucket” width=”200″ height=”183″ border=”0″ /> The heavyweights from Forester Media came up from their office in Santa Barbara to have lunch with me in …
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Efficiency and Renewables Are Blood Brothers
Very few people traipsing around this planet know more about energy efficiency than John Robbins. As he puts it: “Energy education for homeowners is my arena. I’ve thought, taught and written about it for a long time.” (Coming up on …
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, energy efficiency, green energy, John Robbins, Renewable Energy
