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 been advanced, and that ongoing negotiations are going to take […]
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 […]
I had a very busy end of the week and now I’m out of town, so I haven’t been reporting. Here, however, are two pretty interesting reads for you, from two of my favorite writers. The first is from Fiona Harvey, indefatigable environmental correspondent for the FT. She has some unkind words for some of […]
The “Financial Times” is, for my money, one of the best sources out there, consistently, for news and insight into the ever-burgeoning universe of green technology and the business of green, and all the attendant politics and economics. The good folks at the FT have just launched a new series on green tech. (Caveat: You […]
KISS – the engineer’s way of designing things that work. Solving the climate change crisis with nuclear fission plants to power the separation of oil from the billions of tons of tar in which it’s embedded – and destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of forest to get at the tar – is not a […]