Stimulate
Etymology: From Latin stimulatus past participle of stimul? (“goad on”) .
Verb: to stimulate: To encourage into action. To arouse an organism to functional activity.
Synonyms: encourage, induce, provoke, animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk up
Antonyms: de-energize, sedate, stifle
For eight long years, this nation has been de-energized, had productive advancing of the economy stifled, and good [...]
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Stimulate me
January 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Energize America · Energy · Global Warming · Obama Administration · alternative energy · analysis · architecture · architecture2030 · building green · eco-friendly · energy efficiency · government energy policy · green
Obama Administration: Moderate or Reality Based (thus “progressive” or ‘radical’) re climate change
December 20th, 2008 · Comments Off
Much is being made of Obama’s ‘moderate’ cabinet which is, somehow the middle-of-the-roaders’ dream.
President-elect Barack Obama spent the campaign fighting the notion that he’s an unabashed liberal.
Now he can point to Exhibit A: a Cabinet that’s a middle-of-the-roader’s dream
In fact, as that Politico article discusses, the mix is more complex, with some arenas ‘traditional’ / [...]
Tags: Bill Richardson · Energy · Global Warming · Hillary Clinton · Obama Administration · analysis · environmental
Plugging in for a better tomorrow: the school bus ’solution’
December 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]
Tags: Energy · PHEV · analysis · automobiles · bus · business practice · emissions · energy cool · energy efficiency · energy smart · environmental · fuel economy · gasoline · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · oil · peak oil · political symbols · politics
Solar Power: Making the right choice, the easy choice … (revisted)
December 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
One of the key Energize America principles is to strive to
Make the right choice the easy choice.
Right now, throughout the United States, structural issues of regulation, financing, taxation policy, and otherwise make it difficult for individuals, businesses, communities, and governments (at all levels) to make the right choice when it comes to holistic approaches to [...]
Tags: Energy · Solar Energy · analysis · business practice · financial policy · government energy policy · renewable energy · solar
Revisiting Inhofian Deception
December 13th, 2008 · 7 Comments
It must be that time of year again. [DIGG this story.]
Just like last year, the Minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Commitee (read James Inhofe (R-Exxon)) has just released another “report” somehow proving that the globe isn’t warming or, if that fails, that humanity has nothing to do [...]
Tags: Congress · Energy · Global Warming · James Inhofe · analysis · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · global warming deniers · journalism · politics · republican party · skeptic · truthiness
Change. Obama can change the path of Climate Change!
December 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Change.
Climate Change. That is change that we don’t want to believe we face, that many refuse to face, but it is change that is occurring, driving many through the stages from denial to determination.
In the face of Climate Change, how much Change can Barack Obama deliver?
And, in fact, does he and the building team [...]
Tags: Energy · analysis · catastrophic climate change · climate change · emissions · environmental · sequestration · urban heat island
The US Chamber of Commerce and “21st Century Energy” — a glance with thoughts
November 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments
For much of this year, the US Chamber of Commerce has been engaged in a public campaign related to energy issues. Early in the year, the Chamber aligned themselves with the National Association of Manufacturing in battling against any meaningful action on global warming, including running ads against action strongly reminiscent of the infamous [...]
Tags: Energy · analysis · business practice · government energy policy
Truth vs Truthiness: Debating Global Warming with those beyond convincing
November 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
We see this in blogging spaces, in coffee pot conversations, from right-wing talk show hosts to any conversation in the Senate including Senator James Inhofe (R-Exxon), the ever increasing frustration of those speaking with science and fact in their efforts to speak with, to engage, to convince those rejecting the science in relation to Global [...]
Tags: Energy · Global Warming · analysis · climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers · skeptic
McCain DisDain for being truthful: energy / global warming
October 7th, 2008 · Comments Off
This evening’s ‘town hall’ debate actually merits a kudo, amid its problems: there were actually serious questions about energy and global warming, including a direction mention of green jobs.
In the debate, Barack Obama consistently reiterated that energy is a top-tier issue, linking it to financial, environmental, and international security challenges. Obama spoke [...]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Election · 2008 presidential campaign · Energy · analysis · climate change · energy efficiency
The Lomborg chill effect hits again
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Bjorn Lomborg is eloquent, articulate, suave, debonair and recklessly dangerous. Lomborg’s disingenous truthiness provides a fourth category to “lies, damned lies, and statistics” which might referred to “Lomborg statistics“. He struck again with a Times opinion piece calling into question UK investment plans to fight global warming.
It is hard, almost, to [...]
Tags: Energy · analysis · bjorn lomborg · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · truthiness
