Making Green by Going Green: New Hampshire and Renewable Power
In The Economic Impact of Renewable Energy, Steven Lacey of Renewable Energy Access examines the economic impact of New Hampshire’s moves toward a renewable portfolio standard (RPS). An RPS creates a...
View ArticleWashPost Business Section worth a look
Monday’s Washington Post business section has an excellent set of articles examining local green businesses. They provide a window on those pursuing green productivity for, it seems, ethical/moral...
View ArticleASS-U-ME
“If you assume, you make an ASS out of U and ME.” Yes, that old ditty from grade school has direct relevance from time-to-time. The atrocious ACCF/NAM study on the fiscal implications of climate...
View ArticleGeorge Will will write about this, right? “cataclysmic and irreversible...
A two degree centigrade warming of the globe above pre-industrial levels would have serious, some might say devastating, effects across the globe, with a range of serious consequences from weather...
View ArticleAmericans’ Christmas Eve wishes for a Clean Energy Future
Hidden among the hustle and bustle of Americans’ preparations for Christmas, with snowstorms disrupting travel (and giving climate confusers another opportunity to proclaim “its cold and snowing today,...
View ArticleDebunk me! “Lean, mean and easy to read …”
Human society being what it is, we live in a world filled with myths. Count Dracula lives forever and drinks blood. Monsters hide under the bed. NASA faked the Apollo missions and the astronauts were...
View ArticlePost Watch: Balance and Absence aren’t top-flight journalism …
As a native Washingtonian, weaned on morning and evening newspapers, The Washington Post is my hometown journal and has been (for too many decades) a key part of my window on the world. Over the...
View ArticleAn election about science
When it comes to the November 2012elections, few people identify science as the core issue. Economic concerns (JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!), fossil-foolish fueled anger at government, passions over the role of...
View ArticleTaking time for a survey …
There are so many studies out there, so many surveys … most of the time, I don’t take them but here is one that is worth the time. Researchers at the University of Western Australia want people who...
View ArticlePioneering Energy Smart futures in American municipalities
ClimateSolutions‘ New Energy Cities project, with funding from the Henry M Jackson Foundation, just released a study entitled Powering the New Energy Future from the Ground Up: Profiles in City-Led...
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