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We can’t afford as a nation to be stupid about paying for health care anymore. alizard, 6 May 2007 Thus, was the concluding sentence of a post advocating the need to solve — or at least ameliorate — health care costs to create space for tackling energy problems. ALizard was responding to my comments about […]

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CSP — concentrated solar power — is producing electricity for supply to the grid in many places around the world.  There have been / are many efforts seeking to bring CSP into the retail marketplace.   (Such as SunCube.) Soliant Energy looks near to achieving this — not with using CSP to boil water to […]

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Walmart continues to make news in the ‘greening’ / energy efficiency environment.  Earlier this week, there was the announcement of a large solar buy.  Today, they announced a path forward for reducing mercury in compact flourescent lightbulbs (CFLs). As given prominence earlier this year, Wal-Mart is seeking to sell 100+ million CFLs per year. (For an […]

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As discussed prominently in the New York Times earlier this year, Walmart has committed to pushing aggressively for sales of compact fluorescent lightbulb sales in its stores, targeting a doubling of CFL sales of from 50 to 100 million CFLs by 2008. CFLs burn roughly 25% of the electricity of incandescent lightbulbs, last longer, and […]

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CNBC Europe has a list of Top 50 Low-Carbon Pioneers in Europe.

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The tide is coming in fast with companies ‘jumping on’ the green bandwagon. Grist got an advance copy of Rupert Murdoch’s speech where he announced that a News Corporation (parent of Fox News, 20th Century Fox, HarperCollins, MySpace.com, etc…) climate change plan to reduce the News Corporation’s emissions and, even more importantly, “to weave climate […]

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“As sea levels rise, salt in the ground water is slowly transforming Bangladesh’s breadbasket into a vast shrimp farm. Yet what may be good for the farmers is bad for everyone else. A visit to the front lines of climate change.” So begins SpiegelOnline International‘s article The Salty Taste of Global Warming.

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Well, while Walmart announced a major solar purchase, this is overshadowed by the even-larger plans that Kohl’s has for its stores.   Kohl’s has announced plans to provide solar power for 75% of its California stores.  The initial purchase will be for 24 of Kohl’s 80 stores. This one step will be 15% of California’s current solar […]

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Wal-Mart announced today a huge solar system purchase, a “pilot project … toward its goal of being supplied by 100 percent renewable energy”. For many, Wal-Mart has been an odd poster child for Green business management. While it is hard to say that its business model is ‘sustainbilility focused’ (importing things from far away, disposible (non-durable) […]

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When considering an energy future, a driving question is what drives decisions.  What do we “count” when it comes to “cost”. The current “cost” structure for energy has many internalized and many externalized costs.  For example, when it comes to coal, there are questions as to whether and how to count its medical impact (through mercury […]

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