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Sometimes Sustainability Doesn’t Require Sacrifice

I write often about the “tough realities” of renewable energy, and sustainability more generally.  A good example is coal-fired power plants, and the fact that we can generate base-load electricity at...

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Misinformation Campaigns on Renewable Energy, Climate Change

A reader writes in: Hi, Craig – I’ve been reading your blog for a while now. Thanks for what you’re doing. Also enjoyed your book, “Is Renewable Really Doable?” My question is this: how to counter the...

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Rick Barnett: Nearly 40 Years in Environmental Activism

I just got off the phone with long-time environmental activist Rick Barnett, who, in 1974, started off on what was to become a career of public service in the truest sense: working to bring people...

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Steven Chu Resigns Energy Secretary Post

Those outside the U.S. may not be aware of the spate of cabinet members of the Obama Administration who are resigning their posts.  I don’t know exactly what to make of this, and I most certainly...

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Chaos Theory and Understanding Global Climate Change

Here’s an article from Forbes.com written by my colleague Tom Konrad on Chaos Theory as it applies to the analysis of both the stock market and climate change.  This subject has been at the core of...

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Telling the OTEC Story

One of the highlights of my trip back east this week will be a visit to my client OTECorporation, a company with a huge head-start in ocean thermal energy conversion.  “OTEC,” as it’s normally...

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Fossil Fuels, Ocean Acidification, and the Oyster Population

If I had to live on exactly three foodstuffs for the rest of my life, I’d choose oysters, mangoes and beer.  Perhaps I could do better nutritionally if I were to study the subject seriously, but it...

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A Sustainable Society Means Making a Shift in What We Desire

The key legacy of French social philosopher Rene Girard is the concept of “mimetic desire,” i.e., that we borrow our desires from others.  While we may think our aspirations are authentic and...

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Time To Rethink the Electrical Grid

Frequent commenter John Roche writes: It’s been interesting reading your blogs. I’ll say I’m for the environment and have taken some renewable energy classes to complement my technical background. Will...

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Coal Industry Will Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

In this article from SmartGridNews, we see what anyone could have predicted from the incumbent industries in response to U.S. President Obama’s speech on climate policy: instant attack, including the...

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Is Climate Change The World’s Biggest Problem?

Frequent commenter and 2GreenEnergy supporter Tim Kingston sent me this for comment: an article that asserts that climate change isn’t one of our civilization’s most important problems, and that global...

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Like It Or Not, Our Energy Policy Actually Affects Our Prospects for Survival

I happened to tune into U.S.-based broadcast network CBS’s weekly “Sunday Morning” just now and noticed that it featured a look at the future of humankind, a subject in which I take a keen interest....

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Could the Price of Climate Change REALLY Be $60 Trillion?

What’s the real imperative of the migration to renewable energy and cutting back our consumption of fossil fuels via efficiency and conservation?  Might you say: Climate change? We’ll, that certainly...

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Notes on Our Fossil-Fuel-Based Energy Policy

A reader asked for my comments on the following: I have just been reading about the various ways CO2 is captured from power plants and then transported and stored — underground and underwater.  I don’t...

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Subsidies for Renewable Energy No Longer Needed by 2025

Those who think that federal subsidies for renewable energy are an unacceptable extravagance will be pleased to know that, by 2025, they will no longer be necessary, according to this report by the...

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Should We Worry About “Abrupt” Climate Change?

Like my mother, a kindred spirit, I have to admit that I worry, a habit that is, to a degree, pathological. Worry doesn’t change the future; it only depresses us.  And, though 99% of the subject of our...

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The Wind Energy Industry Is Still Bedeviled with Danger to Birds and Bats

A friend in the wind industry sent me this interesting article on wind turbines, blades, birds, and subsidies. I know the industry is taking the situation with birds and bats very seriously, and that’s...

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Push-back from Big Energy on State and Federal Government’s Protection of New...

A friend in Philadelphia sent me this newspaper article and blog post on the efforts of the oil and gas companies to put a pipeline through a very tranquil section of New Jersey’s forestland. Because...

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CBS’s 60 Minutes’ Hatchet-Job on CleanTech

The CBS news show “60 Minutes” sports a history of hatchet-jobs that goes back almost half a century.  They’re phenomenally good at selecting a certain conclusion and then supporting it with misleading...

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Ayn Rand’s Philosophy and Sustainability

While U.S. football fans spent last Sunday eating and drinking their way through the Super Bowl, few noticed that it was also the birthday of Ayn Rand, author of philosophic novels.  Her concept, as we...

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