Energy has become an ever-more central part of my life – personal, intellectual, and professional. This ranges from working with the Energize America team (and leading revamped EA2020 for 2007 and legislative action), to serving on the Board of The Energy Consensus (a non-profit working to change the discussion of energy in DC), being trained […]
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Making Energy Cents — From the Home to the Globe
June 24th, 2008 · 17 Comments
Tags: CFL · eco-friendly · electricity · Energize America · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · green · Uncategorized
Secretary of Energy Richard Cheney?
June 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Secretary of Energy Richard Cheney?
When asked about the potential for finding a position for Dick Cheney in a McCain Administration, John McCain has a expressly straight talking response: “Hell Yeah!” Asked whether he’d be interested in Cheney had the vice president not already have served under Bush for two terms, McCain said: “I don’t know if I would want […]
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Exxon headed to the Dugout?
June 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Exxon headed to the Dugout?
Until late last week, Exxon-Mobil was the sponsor of the seventh-inning stretch at the Washington Nationals’ stadium. The incongruity of a company that has poured $10s of millions into trying to undermine understanding of global warming having a prominent role in the greenest stadium in professional baseball sparked a movement to “Strike Out Exxon at […]
Tags: exxon-mobil · games · greenwashing · Uncategorized
The power of 350 … spreading the word
June 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on The power of 350 … spreading the word
Prior to the industrial era, the atmosphere was at about 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Now, we are about 387 and growing at nearly 2 ppm per year. The ‘old’ (a few years ago) scientific consideration was that it seemed we could stabilize, without utterly catastrophic risk, at 450 ppm or below. This […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · climate change · emissions · environmental · Global Warming · green · jim hansen · political symbols · politics · pollution · Uncategorized
Oily Green: Time for Washing up Some Washington Greenwashing
June 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The Washington Nationals have a beautiful new stadium. A tax-payer paid stadium. A stadium padded itself on the back for its green attributes. This beautifully green stadium is plastered with: advertisements for that every so environmentally friendly Exxon-Mobil. Yes, that Exxon-Mobil that has so happily (and generously) supported global warming denialists as a path to […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · greenwashing · Uncategorized
Politics and Gas Prices
June 13th, 2008 · 10 Comments
It is ever so tempting to scream “GAS PRICES” and call for lowered gas prices if you are a candidate challenging for Congress or elsewhere. Ever so tempting to pander to (quite real) concerns about skyrocketing prices with counterproductive calls for cutting gasoline prices. These, however, fly in the face of the realities of Peak […]
Tags: conservation · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · fuel economy · political symbols · politics · pollution · transportation · Uncategorized
House leadership to Fossil Fuel industry: Use it or lose it!
June 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tired of the unending truthiness Republican cries to DRILL, DRILL, DRILL in a disingenuous truthiness efforts that turns us (US) aside from discussion of energy efficiency and moving off fossil fuels, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) and others in the House leadership issued an ultimatum to oil companies: Drill on the […]
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Send friends to Energy Smart Austin
June 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Send friends to Energy Smart Austin
Austin, Texas, is a leader in the United States on paths toward a more energy smart future. MSN called it the “Greenest City in America.” IT has smart growth policies, has a focus on plug-in vehicles, wind power, and … well, many things. Yearly Kos 1 was in a center of conspicious consumption: Las […]
Tags: cities · conservation · electricity · Energy · energy efficiency · Uncategorized · waste · water
“A path that can unite America …”
June 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Plug-in-Hybrid-Electric-Vehicles (PHEVs) offer “a path that can unite America,” according to David Sandalow, in his opening talk today to the Google/Brookings Institution two-day conference Plug-In Electric Vehicles 2008: What Role for Washington? Oil prices are at record highs. The overwhelming dependence of our cars and trucks on oil strains family budgets, threatens our national security […]
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Faux News: “Most Republicans crazy like a man stuck in a toilet”
June 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Faux News: “Most Republicans crazy like a man stuck in a toilet”
Truth be told, the title isn’t an exact quote, but it isn’t far off. Yesterday on Fox News, anchor Shep Smith was recounting the story of a man in Pennsylvania who was stuck in a port-a-potty. According to the York Daily Record (PA), the man was “drunk, naked and wedged up to his waist […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Congress · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · Uncategorized