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A Tale of Two Articles

November 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on A Tale of Two Articles

Two recent major Washington Post articles about urban planning and preparing for ‘Sandy-like’ events provided radically different views of the 21st century. While both 4 November’s “In a perfect storm” (Metro front page) and 5 November’s “In coast communities” (front page) highlighted the challenges for urban planners and politicians in expending (quite significant) resources to reduce […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming · journalism · unpublished letters · Washington Post

Energy Bookshelf: Making a Clean Break with an Energiewende

November 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on Energy Bookshelf: Making a Clean Break with an Energiewende

With Clean Break, a recommended 99 cent ‘Kindle Single’ purchase/read, Osha Gray Davidson has provided English speakers an enjoyable and illuminating look at Germany’s Energiewende — that wholesale societal shift commonly translated as “energy shift” and “energy transition”.   Despite its booming economy — in the powerhouse position of Europe — and the mounting role that solar […]

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Tags: Energy · energy bookshelf