The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) recently released an informative video: The Power of Scale. What fleet efficiency can do for your company and the planet This video seeks to provide a path to understand that individual actions can add up, inexorably, to something much larger. Just like millions of SUV tailpipes are contributing to driving […]
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The Power of Scale: getting the leverage wrong …
February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · fuel economy
McKinsey’s systematic under valuing of the value of efficiency
January 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Economy versus the Environment. This is a slogan for many when they consider the challenges of dealing with Climate Change and the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2007, McKinsey issued Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? that provided a a significant contribution to this discussion. McKinsey’s conclusion: at an […]
Tags: analysis · climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · Global Warming
Energy HOME: Calculating a confusing heating situation …
January 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Today, a poll popped up: How do you primarily heat your home / apartment? This question gave me pause. Sadly, for a self-proclaimed (and labeled by others) energy ‘geek’ and one who values feedback (systems) to enable better decisions/energy use patterns, I realized that I simply can’t answer this question. The problem: multiple heating systems, […]
Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · energy home · energy smart · solar · Solar Energy
Washington Post washes its hands with passive voice re climate change confusion
December 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
The Washington Post / ABC News 13 Dec 09 poll had both some gloomy and some bright news when it comes to Americans’ perspectives about climate change and how/whether we should act in response to them. The Post/ABC poll and The Post‘s 18 Dec 09 reporting of it in On environment, Obama and scientists take […]
Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · energy efficiency · George Will · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy
Dr Seuss Traveled to COP15
December 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on Dr Seuss Traveled to COP15
Dr Seuss’ Lorax remains one of the most powerful works re the implications of placing “environment vs economy” rather than understanding how they are intrinsically combined along with a powerful indictment of placing economy over environment in terms of the devastating implications for health, quality of life, and other issues. Here is the clearest summary […]
Tags: climate change · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy
Barton can’t see Arctic or Himalayas from his porch
December 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Barton can’t see Arctic or Himalayas from his porch
While Sarah Palin might be able to see Russia from her front porch, evidently Representative Joe Barton can’t see the polar ice cap from his. Throwing aside the adage that politics ends at the water’s edge, Barton and some Republican global warming denying colleagues traveled to Copenhagen to try to undermine the COP15 talks. As […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · climate legislation · Congress · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy
The Bells Tolled for us at the Department of State
December 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Bells Tolled for us at the Department of State
Across the globe, yesterday, church bell towers chimed 350 times in a mass call for COP15 negotiators to achieve a fair, aggressive and binding (FAB) climate agreement. As the bell tolled, key environmental organizations were being locked out of the negotiations building (despite being accredited to enter) and a group of young climate activists sat […]
Tags: climate change · energy efficiency · Global Warming · government energy policy
The Bells Toll For Us
December 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls”, since, today, it is for us, our children, and our childrens’ children for whom the bells toll across Denmark. As Danish police assaulted peaceful climate activists, as non-governmental organizations accredited to the COP15 face lockouts, and youth activists sit in protest inside the building calling for a FAB […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics
Fred Hiatt jumps the shark in dragging Washington Post into the sewers: Publishes Sarah Palin OPED contradicted by links within the OPED
December 8th, 2009 · 15 Comments
As someone weaned on the Watergate-era Washington Post, The Washington Post opinion section has been abysmal in its ‘faux and balanced’ nature in recent years. And, it is sinking to a new low in its fostering of a ClimateGate era. Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt’s utter disdain for truthful discourse has been evidenced not […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · George Will · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · truthiness · Washington Post
Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work
December 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs‘ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Investing in building energy efficiency is one of the most effective […]
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