Get Energy Smart! NOW!

Blogging for a sustainable energy future.

Get Energy Smart!  NOW! header image 4

Entries Tagged as 'environmental'

News from the Arctic: 27 June 2010

June 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments

This guest post comes from Bill in Laurel, Maryland, who has been doing occasional posts highlighting changes in the Arctic. Okay, now on to this week’s news.  The international study of the Arctic still goes on, despite our economic troubles.  At the North Pole in April 2010, two buoys with weather instruments were launched.  They’re […]

[Read more →]

Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental · Global Warming

George Will’s next column won’t deal with a simple reality: Washington is wilting while the Arctic is melting

June 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Simply put, Washington, DC, weather is miserable at this time.  It feels like the middle of August, at the moment, with temperatures nearing 100 degree with very high humidity. Life for many: air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned office, with too much sweat in the seconds moving from one air-conditioned space […]

[Read more →]

Tags: climate change · environmental · George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post

“All costs, no benefits …”

June 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The EPA has issued its analysis of the financial and economic impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act.  The bumper sticker summary of their (fundamentally flawed) analysis: action to mitigate climate change is affordable.  Sadly, however, the EPA has continued the strong economic tradition of robust analysis of costs of action with dramatic understating of […]

[Read more →]

Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental · Global Warming

Solar Cooking at the Farmers Market

June 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on Solar Cooking at the Farmers Market

If embraced, solar cooking has the potential for providing a meaningful Silver BB in the fight to mitigate climate change, in the struggle to reduce health damage from polluting cooking (such as wood or coal burning in inadequately vented homes), and aiding economic strengthening for some of the world’s poorest people (reducing costs (both monetary […]

[Read more →]

Tags: eco-friendly · Energy · energy smart · environmental · green

Reducing School Cafeteria Waste

June 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

What follows is a very practical discussion of how to help move ‘green’ incrementally into America’s primary school cafeterias from the perspective of a ‘green’ parent in Virginia. I was recently a guest blogger on Mrs. Q’s “Fed Up with School Kunch” blog and cross-posted here to gain a larger audience. Here’s the original blog […]

[Read more →]

Tags: environmental · green · guest post · schools

80 by 2050 … An inadequate minimum … And the wrong thing to discuss

June 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off on 80 by 2050 … An inadequate minimum … And the wrong thing to discuss

Looking 40 years out is difficult for most of us and developing effective policy taking 40 years in the future seriously is difficult for most political institutions.  Manana … demain … tomorrow … later … putting off action is natural for us procrastinators. (Note: roughly 20 percent of Americans self-identify as “chronic procrastinators and it […]

[Read more →]

Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · politics

A window on some of coal’s dirtiest secrets …

May 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The Institute for Southern Studies provides consistently top flight reporting in its online journal, Facing South, related, to among other things, energy practices in the south that create significant questions of environmental justice and polluting energy practices that threaten the health of all Southerners (actually, all Americans). As the nation’s attention (okay, not enough of […]

[Read more →]

Tags: coal · Energy · environmental

Stealing The Work Of A Better Blogger & Calling It My Own

May 18th, 2010 · 7 Comments

This guest post from WarrenS provides a template for the commendable work that he has been doing to seek to illuminate climate and energy issues for newspaper readers across the country. One of the things, by the way, that WarrenS doesn’t mention is that his pieces fall into a context: even if he is not […]

[Read more →]

Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · journalism

What I want, and don’t want, to see on my next trip to a major aquarium …

May 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Despite the horrific nature of the massive man-made volcano of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the utter absence of discussion of the evolving disaster in work and social environments has been a striking contrast to the virtual blogosphere world. Not once this month, without my starting the conversation, has Gulf oil been discussed: even […]

[Read more →]

Tags: environmental · oil · OilApocalypse · oilpocalyse · political symbols · pollution

A first glance at Kerry-put your name here-Lieberman American Power Act

May 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Senators Kerry and Lieberman are, as is understood, planning to release the American Power Act Wednesday morning. Initial material has ‘leaked’, including a two-page summary (graciously transcribed from a pdf version to text by the Wonkroom) and a 21 page section-by-section “for staff use only” available on the Washington Post website. By my nature, I […]

[Read more →]

Tags: american power act · climate legislation · Energy · environmental

Download kms-activator kmspico or kms activador kms-pico.