Get Energy Smart! NOW!

Taking Energy Smart measures are typically (near universally) also fiscally smart measures. However, starting from the fiscal (those dollars and cents) arguments often isn’t persuasive enough to tip people to action. Nor are the very serious environmental (including Climate Chaos) challenges that Energy Smart practices help address enough to motivate most people to serious change. […]

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WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]

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Ouch! Laura’s monthly electric bill just arrived. The kilowatt per hour rate and local taxes went up …again… but her take home pay didn’t. She needs a strategy to cut back on her household’s energy consumption. She gets her family together to discuss the increasing cost of all utilities to map out a conservation plan […]

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With our seemingly ever mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment stubbornly above 9 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment perhaps 20 percent), looming peak oil and other resource (water, for example) limitations, enviornmental challenges, and ever-mounting climate chaos , we are in a very serious situation. Our serious challenges are, as the previous […]

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Very simply, clean air saves lives. Senator Webb doesn’t want Virginians to realize this as he takes a prominent role in the efforts to shred the Clean Air Act.

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Several days ago, I wrote a dismayed post about a White House background teleconference prior to President Barack Obama’s speech on Energy Security at Georgetown University. Two days has provided time to reflect on the plan and crunch the numbers. After such extensive analysis, the plan’s strengths have become clear. The plan’s four core elements […]

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Later today, President Barack Obama will give a speech at Georgetown University focused on Energy Security.  Based on a press teleconference Tuesday afternoon with White House staff, the appropriate way to characterize what we heard is that the speech will promote energy dumb policy that is politically tone deaf to the need for real leadership […]

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Elton Sherwin’s Addicted to Energy is an eminently readable and accessible letter to the nation’s governor. This 300+ page “letter” lays out a set of key issues and check lists that provide any (sane) state government (Governor) a sensible starting point for transforming their state from inefficient fossil fuel status quo to a more prosperous climate-friendly […]

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The cup runneth over in the Washington, DC, area when it comes to meaningful events for discussing the military and energy/climate issues. In addition to three events discussed earlier this week in TCO, energy, climate, and the military — a brief framing discussion, next Wednesday and Thursday the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) will […]

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No serious student of energy can deny the inanity — the senselessness — of our energy system in the face of increasingly serious resource challenges (Peak Oil, climate change, etc). Beyond the necessity for confronting these challenges to stave off catastrophic implications, a simple (yet incredibly complex) truth: options exist to foster sanity out of the […]

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