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We don’t need your help … we don’t want it …

August 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments

When it comes to the necessity of facing down pollution in the nation’s electricity system and other major polluting industries, it is hard to read recent Obama Administration action as anything other than a strong statement to leading environmental organizations:
Stay out of our way, we don’t need your help … we don’t need it.
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Tags: Energy · Obama Administration · climate change · emissions · energy efficiency · politics

Energy Bookshelf: The power of invisible energy

August 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Efficiency is the ugly stepchild of the energy and climate world.
Recently, I put solar on my roof. Many neighbors and friends are excited about trying to do the same. When I hear this from them, the advice: make sure that your home is energy efficient before putting a penny into something like solar [...]

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Tags: Energy · energy bookshelf · energy efficiency

A Giant step behind Wal-Mart

August 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

When I hop onto my bike early in the morning because we’re out of coffee or need some bread, a Giant Food grocery store is the closest option. The store recently went through a renovation and is amid a “grand opening”. Wondering through this store, however, makes this author’s head spin contrasting [...]

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Tags: Energy · LEED · energy efficiency · greenwashing · lighting

The Breitbart of the Climate Change World?

July 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments

A simple fact: Andrew Breitbart has been incredibly effective.
With material that legal investigations, reviews by traditional journalism institutions, and other inspections have shown to be “severely edited” material utterly misrepresenting actual events, Breitbart provided the ammunition that enabled the takedown of an organization (ACORN) that had helped — quite literally — 100,000s of people (if [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · politics

Delivering the post mortem on climate legislation’s failure …

July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments

If the US Senate has, collectively, any substantive understanding of science, concern about American security, and desire for American prosperity into the future, there will be climate legislation. Sadly, with Anti-Science Syndrome suffering Haters Of a Livable Economic Society dominating one of America’s two major political parties and with Climate Peacocks mewing [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · cap and trade · climate change · climate legislation · energy efficiency · politics

Energy COOL Roofing is Cool: Secretary Chu takes action

July 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has advocated cool roofing as a very high payoff tool to improving energy efficiency in the built environment, reducing heat island impacts, and helping to move us forward in climate change mitigation. Yesterday, Secretary Chu announced a series of initiatives to spur cool roof deployment in (on) Department of [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · department of energy · energy cool · energy efficiency · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics

Regular Post Columnist Rejects Paper’s Climate Denial Party Line

July 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Canada’s version of Faux News and the Washington Times, The National Post, has been a fountain of misinformation and deceit when it comes to climate science. The National Post’s pages have been filled with truthiness dribble from those rejecting science and seeking to distort the science into the public discussion. Last week, [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy

A growing season to change America’s energy culture?

July 15th, 2010 · No Comments

George Mokray is a long-term solar power advocate, with a focus on figuring out how to help people — in quite practical terms — realize (in both intellectual and practical terms) the opportunities that ‘going solar’ provides for them.  He has also been, more recent, quite active with weatherization barnstorming — including via Home Energy [...]

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Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · guest post

VP Biden’s excellent Earth Day announcement is perhaps 1% of what we need …

April 21st, 2010 · No Comments

The day before the 40th Earth Day, VP Joe Biden kicked off a series of White House actions and announcements with an excellent initiative:
selection of 25 communities for up to $452 million in Recovery Act funding to “ramp-up” energy efficiency building retrofits. Under the Department of Energy’s Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative, communities, governments, private sector [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama · building green · energy efficiency · environmental · financial policy · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics

Energy Bookshelf: The Lomborg Deception … leads to a question: “Does the Washington Post have any honor left?”

April 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments

At a recent conference, a scientist made a comment about how we need to understand trade-offs in investments, advocating action on climate change but noting that we need to understand opportunity costs. In doing this, he referenced Bjorn Lomborg  (with a somewhat condescending tone). In my bag, as he spoke, Howard Friel’s devastating dissection [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · Washington Post · bjorn lomborg · climate change · climate delayers · energy bookshelf · energy efficiency · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · politics