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Follow-ups are sometimes merited. My last diary, Gorephobia Prominent in the Washington Post, began: Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington Post OPED “You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason.” Ferguson is absolutely right […]

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Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington Post OPED You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason. Ferguson is absolutely right … and, amazingly arrogant in his disdain for common understanding of “truth” … Like […]

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On May 16th, The U.S. National Academy of Sciences joined 12 other national science academies … in calling on world leaders — particularly G8 leaders who will meet in June — to address global climate change and energy-access issues by promoting low carbon-emission energy systems and more efficient use of energy. The academies also urged […]

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We can’t afford as a nation to be stupid about paying for health care anymore. alizard, 6 May 2007 Thus, was the concluding sentence of a post advocating the need to solve — or at least ameliorate — health care costs to create space for tackling energy problems. ALizard was responding to my comments about […]

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For me, Ecotality has a valuable, diverse, and expanding blogroll.  Perhaps, however, this blogroll simply overwhelms and changes/additions to it are opaque rather than illuminating. Thus, a few words about an addtion today to the blogroll:  EarthPortal.

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No, not the California Highway Patrol (nor CHiPs), Cogeneration (Combined-Heat Power)  is combining the production of electricity and heat.  Right now, major US electricity production has waste heat that is that, waste. Tremendous opportunities exist in the Untied States for converting this “waste” to something useful.  And, well, in America’s  homes, the (just-finished winter season)  […]

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As discussed in Pelosi is painting the House GREEN, in the beginning of March, Nancy Pelosi directed the House Chief Administrative Officer to come up with a plan to ‘Green the House’. This is moving forward. As per Democrats Painting the House GREEN …, the preliminary report (summary: pdf) of the Green the Capitol Initiative […]

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As discussed in Nancy painting the House GREEN, in the beginning of March, Nancy Pelosi directed the House Chief Administrative Officer to come up with a plan to ‘Green the House’. Thursday, the preliminary report (summary: pdf) of the Green the Capitol Initiative was released. It has real, substantive, and meaningful elements. It merits support, […]

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A key challenge to better electric vehicles, including an effective Plug-In Hybrid, is the development of better batteries.  Government financing and focus in stepping in.  In both Japan and the United States, recent announcements highlight this government role.

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Sea Studios Foundation has just come out with a Ahead of the Curve: Business Responds to Climate Change. This 12-minute video looks at the situation related to energy and global warming … and how businesses are shifting to deal with them. “Far too many people see it as a win-lose game and it’s not that […]

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