My friend Jim Boyden just wrote me, and recommended this incredibly well-made and poignant film: HOME, which so artfully describes the fragility of our ecosystem, the delicate balance we need to maintain, and the tough choices facing mankind at this …
“HOME” — Great Film About Our Planet and What We Must Do To Preserve It Read More »
I’m proud that Tom Konrad, famed stock market analyst and editor of AltEnergyStocks.com, offers his comments here frequently. In a post yesterday, he offered me guidance in wrapping my wits around the issue of green jobs, directing me to his …
Is Renewable Energy a Threat To Economic Prosperity? Read More »
Here’s a wonderful article that gets at an issue I come across constantly: the implication that environmentalism and job growth are opposed to one another. Considering we have the option to put literally millions of people back to work in …
Must Eco-friendliness Come at the Expense of the Economy? Read More »
To simplify where we are as a civilization and where we’re going with respect to energy consumption, economics, and environmentalism, it’s useful to postulate three broad “plans”: Plan A: We continue on our current course. We ignore the fact that our …
Energy Consumption, Economics, and Environmentalism Read More »
Descending the nearby mountain I had hiked last Sunday afternoon, I slipped a bit, and almost sprained my ankle. Though I quickly recovered my balance, the brief incident caused me to think about how clever nature is; in the case …
Advice to Environmental Policy Makers: Limit Further Damage Read More »
I was in a four-hour-long meeting this morning, learning about a new approach to energy storage. I can’t talk about the technology (which, frankly, I think is sketchy) but that’s not the point. The point is this: I sat at …
The Downside to Environmentalism — Sorry, What Exactly Is That Again? Read More »
Albert Einstein left us a number of gifts, most obviously his landmark breakthroughs in theoretical physics. The other, in my estimation, is the utter truckload of pithy philosophic quotes about mankind’s role in the universe. If you’re looking for something …
Thanksgiving – An Appropriate Time to Appreciate Mankind’s Benefactors Read More »
Those of us who can’t wrap our wits around the Republican party’s indifference (some might substitute “antagonism”) to the environment need to remember that the GOP didn’t always take this stance. This post on Mother Nature Network documents 10 Republicans …
Old-time Republicans Made Real Commitments to the Environment Read More »
I’m headed back East on Monday for meetings in Washington DC and NYC this week; I’ll try to write from the road. Among my stops is the Environmental Law Institute, where spokesperson Jay Predergrass has generously agreed to let me …
Here’s a good discussion on some points near and dear to us here are 2GreenEnergy, especially the way in which the oil companies have systematically internalized their profits while externaling many of the most obvious and burdensome costs of their …
Does Environmentalism Come at the Expense of Economic Prosperity? Read More »
