An old friend writes: Craig: I filled out my mail-in ballot yesterday, and saw Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate’s name for the first time. Unfortunately, I hadn’t heard anything about her until I saw her on the ballot. Why …
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Politics and Environmentalism
Tagged with: fossil fuels, Green Party, Jill Stein, libertarian, politics and environmentalism, Ralph Nader
Provocative Questions on Energy from the U.K.
Yesterday morning I did an interview for a young man in England, James Alcock, who writes for a consumer-oriented website called TheGreenAge.com. In a period of about half an hour, I answered various questions ranging from electric transportation to fossil …
Electric Vehicles and Coal-Fired Power Plants
On my piece on EVs earlier today, my friend Tom Konrad of AltEnergyStocks.com writes: Given the extra demand from a large number of EVs, how will the utilities supply the extra power? (This could be anything, not just renewables or …
Ocean Acidification and Fossil Fuels
A friend just sent me this piece on ocean acidification and asks: “The tipping point has tipped?” I respond: Could be. In truth, no one knows. I’ve been writing about this for years. In fact, when I’m on a radio …
Renewable Energy and Job Creation
Here’s an op-ed by former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson that makes a number of excellent points about renewable energy and job creation. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with that; we’re all concerned with jobs and the economy, and Richardson does …
How Much Energy Does the Earth Receive From the Sun?
Here’s an email conversation I just had with a friend: Friend: Per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, sunlight is the most abundant source of potential energy on the planet. If harnessed properly, sunlight could easily exceed current and future …
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Tagged with: clean energy, Department of Energy, fossil fuels, grid parity, nuclear energy, nuclear power, oil companies, Renewable Energy, renewable energy naysayers, renewable energy outrageously expensive, solar energy, solar power, sunlight most abundant source of potential energy, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wind Energy, wind power
Film Project: Energy and Ethics
2GreenEnergy co-founder George Alger and I are in the process of making a five-minute video on “Ethics and Energy” to be entered in a contest later in the year. As we currently contemplate the project, the video will feature me …
Tagged with: agribusiness, Amazon rain forest, big energy, clean energy, climate refugees, depletion of natural resources, eco-friendly, Ethics and Energy, farm land desertification, fossil fuels, global climate change, global warming, global warming hoax, Heartland Institute, mass starvation, mega-corporations, oil companies, poisoning food with chemicals, polluting oceans skies, Renewable Energy, rising sea levels, skyrocketing rates of disease, sustainability, worlds population
SAT Question Stimulates Thoughts on Oil Dependence
When I signed my daughter up to take the SATs, the organization that administers the test asked if I wanted to receive, via email, the “SAT Question of the Day.” I eagerly agreed. I love little quizzes, and I look …
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Eco-Capitalism Aims at Sustainability in Developing Countries
Here’s this month’s webinar, in which I interviewed my friend and colleague Andy Lower, Executive Director of The Eleos Foundation. I called the webinar “Eco-Capitalism,” as Eleos makes significant, carefully placed investments, focused on enabling entrepreneurs in developing countries to …
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Bechtel Building Solar Thermal Plant
Bechtel was one of my favorite clients, back in the day when I was a marketing consultant for the large tech companies. That’s why I’m happy to see their participation in solar thermal; as discussed here, they’re building a $2.2 …
