The venerable Matt Wald has been covering nuclear power and renewable energy technology at the NY Times since Hector was a pup. He has the lead story today: Offshore Wind Power Line Wins Backing. A high-voltage cable, costing $5 billion and with a 6 GW capacity, would run offshore connecting wind farms from Virginia to […]
We were in Cambridge this past weekend having a fine time, very much including getting out for Honkfest. The best band we saw was the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable, “Atlanta’s wildest community band,” but they were all pretty anarchically blessed. Meanwhile, 350.org was staging it’s 10/10/10 Global Work Party. We saw some evidence of […]
In my last post below, I once again lauded President Obama and his administration for taking action on clean tech. Hear the message on clean tech jobs and the economy from the President himself.
If we wait for the US Senate to create even adequate, let alone progressive, thoughtful legislation mandating a price on carbon, it will be too late. I have written about the manifestly undemocratic public policy graveyard that is the US Senate and its denizens a number of times. If you care about the parlous state […]
Big party on Sunday! Check out the action where you are and get your work shoes on. (They should definitely double as dancing shoes.) We’ll be at Honkfest in Cambridge, being free, green, laughing, dancing and generally spreading the word. For last year’s festivities, see this:
I was at this year’s Urban Green Expo in New York and vastly enjoyed William McDonough’s keynote presentation. He is an architect, designer, sustainability expert (from way back), and co-guru of the visionary Cradle to Cradle framework for building and living. McDonough’s talk had several key themes: * there are no wastes, only nutrients; * […]
The Urban Green Council is the NYC Chapter of the US Green Building Council. The New York City folks are very active, extremely creative and progressive, and forging true global leadership in green building and design. I attended their inaugural Urban Green Expo last year, and went again this year. The theme this year of […]
There are more than a few problems in the People’s Republic of China, to be sure, but the one to which I’m referring here is pollution. I went to an event last week sponsored by the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (ICET) and hosted by the India China Institute as part of Climate Week […]
Germans were out in force this past weekend in Berlin to give vocal and visible protest to Chancellor Merkel’s plan to extend the life of nuclear power plants beyond their statutorily mandated closure dates. The World From Berlin – “Most Germans Don’t Want Nuclear Power” was the headline from Der Spiegel. Between 100,000 and 40,000 […]
You remember the Waxman-Markey bill – The American Clean Energy And Security Act. It passed in the House of Representatives in June of 2009. Oh well, the Senate – being the Senate – allowed the historical moment to pass. In this case, the cowardice, political cynicism and utter lack of clear thinking has been a […]
There is a very good story in the NYT about an initiative being launched today to finance clean-burning cookstoves for the developing world. I have written about the pernicious health impacts of burning biomass in open fires and the burden of black carbon deposition that so badly exacerbates global warming. The NY Times reports “Nearly […]
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 to clean energy and other clean tech […]
Greenpeace wants Facebook to power its data centers with renewables. Greenpeace is using all the power of cyberspace – including a Facebook page – for this initiative. Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOm puts it all in context here. The video is too cute to pass up. My nine-year-old is going to love it.
Sue me: I love the FT. It has comprehensive, smart and deep coverage of energy and the environment. I subscribe to the paper and to the “Energy Source” blog feed. Once again, they’re hitting on all cylinders with this special report, Modern Energy. There are articles here on oil, gas, power demand, biofuels, the state […]
On Clean Energy, China Skirts Rules was a front-page story at the NY Times this past week. The gist: China is cranking up its exports of wind turbines and PV, eclipsing other leaders like the US and Germany. However, they’re doing it largely on the strength of subsidies illegal under international trade agreements, namely the […]