A reader notes: I just received Bill McKibben’s Eaarth. I read the preface and if I weren’t so old, I would be depressed. I’m looking forward to the rest. I reply: First, let me acknowledge that you are old, and …
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Bill McKibben’s “Eaarth” — Depressing?
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From Guest-Blogger Iannick Gagnon: Oil — Indians and Refiners
Let us briefly wrap our heads around the main points of our last article Oil: The First Shock. When the first oil well was drilled, its produce could be sold for something around $20 a barrel, which corresponds to roughly …
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The New Living Large Is Living Small
Recently, I wrote a few pieces around the concept, “The New Living Large Is Living Small.” The concept suggests that society will experience significant upheaval when it becomes “cool” to be “green.” I don’t want to over-aggrandize the importance of my …
Our Rate of Energy Consumption: Unsustainable
Reader and cool guy Brian McGowan writes in: I once read something that I think applies here. In the old days before cars, people rode horses for transportation. 1 horse for 1 person. What can we take away from this? …
Jeremy Rifkin — Advising on Climate Change Since 1981
I’ve finally gotten around to reading Jeremy Rifkin’s fabulous The Third Industrial Revolution, which includes the following: In 1981, The Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, a legislative service organization made up of more than one hundred congressmen and senators, invited …
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Edison Predicted Cheap Energy
132 years ago today, Thomas Edison first demonstrated his incandescent lightbulb and told spectators: “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.” Not a bad prediction, when you think about it. Few people grouse about …
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Small and Affordable Battery Electric Vehicles
Lots of folks are wondering what the future of transportation looks like. While none of us knows for sure, we can have some level of certainty as to what it does not look like: a 4000 pound hunk of steel, …
Some Good News for Us Green Energy People — For a Change
I often consider how most of the content here is essentially bad news: climate change, ocean acidification, empowering terrorists, oil companies’ propaganda, corporatocracy, governmental corruption, and public ignorance and apathy. But here’s some good news: Traffic at 2GreenEnergy in 2011 …
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Comment on “The New Living Large Is Living Small”
In response to my piece suggesting that “the new living large is living small,” Erik writes: I agree that many people will eventually see consumerism as utter foolishness. I also have to agree with some commentators here that this will …
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Renewable Energy – Following the Money
For those interested in tracking the progress I’m making in writing my third book, here is the title: Renewable Energy – Following the Money. The project is based on the notion that the migration from fossil fuels will happen precisely when …
