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Today is Earth Day. The 40th Earth Day. And, I’m feeling old, thinking back to that first Earth Day back in 1970. Composted then. Ditto today. Turned lights off when not required back then. Ditto today. Contacted politicians advocating the benefits of a clean energy future in 1970. Ditto today. Those dittos aren’t isolated to […]

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The pushing to the Overton Window to the right, ever to the right, over the past few decades have made many topics seemingly near taboo in ‘polite company’. Zero Population Growth seemingly was part of the common lexicon decades ago, with serious concern about The Population Bomb part of the general cultural conversation space. As […]

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Just published, Joe Romm’s Straight Up excerpts from Romm’s fiery and highly-informed posts at Climate Progress, which has developed into one of, if not the, top climate / energy blog on the web. As someone who often reads Romm’s blogging and has read his previous books, I was uncertain whether I would welcome having this […]

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Rewarding those who come up with innovative approaches, who prove that they have winning teams, who can show demonstrated success is a thematic within the Obama Administration. Of course, this is not ‘abandon those who fail’ and thus the more appropriate summary might be: “Reward those who show success, help those who struggle reform toward […]

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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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At a recent conference, a scientist made a comment during his presentation 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 […]

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