Sorry to have been absent from the blogosphere for a bit here. Thursday I was standing in a dairy in Northern Virginia surrounded by hundreds of cows — checking out a methane digester, talking about waste-to-energy, and how feed-in tariffs …
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I know I’m not alone in my mistrust of the media. Yet I have to think that Time Magazine nailed the biofuels issue in their 2008 article on sustainability and the Amazon rain forest. Particularly telling is the revolting political …
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Occasionally I like to write a short piece that offers my viewpoints on political philosophy as it applies to sustainability, examining the nature of our moral obligations to our fellow human beings. To what degree do our ethical sensibilities call …
In response to my recent piece on sustainability, a friend of a friend whose name I won’t use writes: Thanks for the link, but sustainability can come only after one gets a business started. Day 1 you receive the money, …
Frequent guest blogger Arlene Allen notes that there are demographic groups that will embrace sustainability differently. She points out… There are financially secure people who can afford anything, and will simply buy an electric car when they want one, …. …
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I was out with my kids just now, and my teenage son asked me: “Dad, who are your competitors in the 2GreenEnergy stuff you’re doing?” That’s an interesting question – certainly a natural one when wanting to know more about …
I’ve noticed that discussions of sustainability generally boil down to cost, e.g.: 1) Do the additional costs of green products pass muster with consumers? 2) Should the government take us further into debt to fund green R&D and to create …
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I wanted to write a follow-on to yesterday’s post on Renewable Energy in the Mainstream. From a business perspective, will there be people who become fantastically wealthy from the migration to renewables — and from sustainability more generally? You bet. …
Guest blogger Garth notes: In the past, many people spent the extra dollars on green products mostly so they could feel good about themselves. That changed with the economic down turn and the number of green purchasers dramatically dropped. Here’s …
I just spoke with Omar Passons — a terrific young man with a novel idea aimed at sustainability — a shuttle bus that would connect parts of cities that contain two or more islands with great deal of foot traffic, …
