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 …
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A great number of folks wrote in, commenting on my recent piece in which I outlined Plans A, B, and C, i.e., three broad-level ways in which our society could deal with its sustainability issues vis-à-vis energy. Many people commented …
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 …
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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? …
I’m delighted that Ben Thorp has become friendly with us here at 2GreenEnergy. Here’s a guy who’s forgotten more about biomass than 99% of professionals in this arena know, and who frequently sends me scholarly papers he’s penned on the …
An Efficient and Sustainable Use of Biomass for Heat and Power Read More »
Are you one of the many Americans jacked out of shape by this country’s supposed “slide into socialism?” If so, there may be far better places to look for evidence of this trend than whatever differences may divide present-day Democrats …
Good Ideas in Sustainability Need to Contemplate the Laws of Nature Read More »
Novelist Andre Gide once wrote: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” How true that is with respect to sustainability. Sure, we could use a few …
I try to keep my “networking” hat on, attending seminars and meetings, and generally getting to know as many people in the industry as possible. The concept is certainly not lost on the folks at Opportunity Green, who recognize that …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbJYGg9VjiI]In this short video, I speak to my level of optimism about the outcome for our society, based on its fantastically poor energy policy. In brief, if there’s hope it lies in a) people understanding the subject well enough …
Our Fantastically Poor Energy Policy Means an Unsustainable Future Read More »
Like it or not, our civilization finds itself past the point of cheap energy and easy credit — confronted with a future that simply will not look like the past. Here’s a short video in which I mention that we …
