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The Golden State

The Golden State


That’s what people call California.  If you’re thinking about the glitter and the shine of that precious metal and how California reflects it in its forward-thinking, economically smart and environmentally sound approach to climate and energy, then you see what I see.  The clean tech vision and environmental …

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Some Cancun Analysis

Some Cancun Analysis

I wrote about how a number of participants in Cancún felt that some sense of faith had been restored in the UN process.  The reviews are still coming in, but it appears that progress was indeed made, that some highly useful, indeed critical mechanisms have …

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Backlash

You would not think it if you were judging the world by the quality of the work of the US Senate – scary thought – but there has been considerable progress made on confronting the climate crisis:  from the EU’s (relatively) hard-charging approach, to the rapidly growing attention …

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More Bursts of Renewable Energy

Think California and its Governator aren’t dead serious about renewables?  DOE’s weekly newsletter, “EERE Network News,” has this story:  California Accelerates its Pursuit of Clean Energy.  A new executive order requires the Golden State’s utilities to get a third of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.  …

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If You Don't Like Al Gore, Then

… what about these people?
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) from a speech yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations , “I can tell you, mainstream scientists are convinced, mainstream CEOs are convinced, and if you look at the surveys, mainstream Americans are convinced, that global warming and …

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