One of the key Energize America principles is to strive to Make the right choice the easy choice. Right now, throughout the United States, structural issues of regulation, financing, taxation policy, and otherwise make it difficult for individuals, businesses, communities, and governments (at all levels) to make the right choice when it comes to holistic […]
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Solar Power: Making the right choice, the easy choice … (revisted)
December 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: analysis · business practice · Energy · financial policy · government energy policy · renewable energy · solar · Solar Energy
Massively Efficient Path to Stimulate the Economy
December 11th, 2008 · 9 Comments
The incoming US Congress will be running full out in January to develop a stimulus package to have ready, potentially, for signature by President Barack Hussein Obama minutes into his Presidency. Organization after organization, business after business, motivated citizen after motivated citizen are knocking on every door conceivable with ideas for funding that range from […]
Tags: architecture · architecture2030 · building green · climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · financial policy · Global Warming · government energy policy · green
Summers not sunny when it comes to developmental concepts
November 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Summers not sunny when it comes to developmental concepts
Bloomberg is reporting that Larry Summers is on a very short list for nomination as Secretary of the Treasury. One doesn’t need to look at the global financial meltdown to recognize that this is a truly critical post but the impact and import of this post cannot be underestimated. With the need to move toward […]
Tags: environmental · environmental justice · financial policy · Obama Administration · pollution · world bank
News Flash World Bank: Global Warming matters
October 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on News Flash World Bank: Global Warming matters
Examining the World Bank’s investment portfolio (pdf), one could be excused for thinking that the Bank is somehow part of the global warming denier branch of the flat-earth society and does not believe that climate change is the critical issue facing the globe. Relying exclusively on the World Bank’s own figures, our analysis shows World […]
Tags: climate change · coal · Energy · environmental · financial policy · world bank
Calculating the Financial Benefits of Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs): the case of a condo building
September 30th, 2008 · 12 Comments
We have all become armored against advertising and the claims of “save $26” (or more) on a CFL package are hard to believe. In addition, in our culture, we focus on the cost to buy (CTB) rather than the cost to own (CTO). Thus, in a weird perversion of Benjamin Franklin, we focus on the […]
Tags: analysis · CFL · electricity · Energy · energy efficiency · financial policy · incandescent lighting · lighting
Chambering a round against future commerce
May 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce continues its deceptive campaign tour to fight any meaningful efforts to deal with Global Warming. Last week, the USCOC joined up with Senator George Voinovich in Columbus, Ohio, for the session deceptively entitled “Comprehensive Approach to Energy and Climate Change“. From the speech by USCOC President Thomas J. Donohue, he […]
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · analysis · astroturfing · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · commerce · Congress · emissions · Energy · environmental · financial policy · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · lieberman-warner · politics · pollution
Musings on the crises we face … and the need for capital
April 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The news isn’t good. There is discussion of a US recession and its impacts globally when the appropriate analogy might be depression (financial and otherwise). Energy prices (partially driven by Peak Oil and other Peaking elements) are continuing their upwards path that might only be stunted by that global recession. Food prices are escalating, across the board, while […]
Tags: conservation · Energy · energy efficiency · financial policy · Global Warming
Friend of FoE? Greenpeace speaks on Lieberman-Warner Coal Subsidy Act
February 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Greenpeace has sent a letter to Senator Barbara Boxer expressing their support for Friends of the Earth (FoE) effort calling on the Senate to Fix or Ditch the Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill. Senator Boxer jabbed back at FoE “They’re sort of the defeatist group out there. They’ve been defeatists from day one. And it’s unfortunate. […]
Tags: climate change · Congress · Energy · environmental · financial policy · Global Warming · government energy policy · lieberman-warner · politics
Money talks. Coal walks?
February 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments
It isn’t too often that I turn to the pages of the Wall Street Journal for good news, but let today be a little different. As per Wall Street Shows Skepticism over Coal, major banks, working with some environmental organizations (including, the much maligned Environmental Defense), are imposing new environmental standards that will make it […]
Tags: carbon tax · climate change · coal · electricity · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · financial policy
ENERGIZE AMERICA via a Stimulus Package
January 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Energize America has joined 29 other organizations in writing to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to call on them to ensure that the stimulus package doesn’t put tax increases on America’s unborn, but to make smart investments in longer-term, sustained economic prosperity by moving our nation towards a clean energy economy that provides employment opportunities […]
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