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"But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!"

"But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!"

The Rolling Stones knew it years ago.*  Now we’re catching up. I’ve written about natural gas a few times, basically to the effect that it’s got enormous potential as a transition fuel for many purposes as we wend our way, sooner rather than later, toward a renewable future.  This is what the prophetic Barry Commoner […]

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Natural Gas – to Cut GHG Emissions

Barry Commoner wrote The Politics of Energy in 1979.  In it, he called for a transition to renewables – with natural gas as the bridge to the future.  30 years later this still sounds pretty good.  One difference, of course, is that we’re so much farther along on renewables than perhaps even Dr. Commoner could’ve dreamed.  A […]

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Nature, Poison and "Eco-Nomics"

Nature, Poison and "Eco-Nomics"

I got back about an hour ago from walking my daughter to school.  We live in a big city with a big park through which my wife or I walk the kid.  It was snowing this morning – one of those intense squalls that come to us here in late winter and early spring.  It […]

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