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What’s “American Energy?” Consult the Constitution, not the atlas
It’s the name of the game. President Obama is into it – check out his agenda for Securing American Energy. His opponents are all over it too: the American Energy Alliance is running ads attacking the...
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Yes and No for climate solutions: no ambivalence necessary
David Roberts at Grist and Stephen Lacey at Climate Progress kicked off a good discussion last week about the roles of “Yes” and “No” in climate work. This would-be schism dominates Climate Solutions’...
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Sex is better with energy efficiency
Something must be done about the abysmal marketing of energy efficiency. Never has such a big energy story received so little love. In the pie-throwing contest that passes for energy dialogue in our...
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Clean energy efficacy: “Can’t” meets its match.
Climate solutions are not tweaks. They’re a revolution. Bob Doppelt at the Resource Innovation Group argues persuasively that big changes – fundamental shifts in beliefs, practices, goals, and results...
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MORE sex is better with energy efficiency
My first foray into this topic, “Sex is better with energy efficiency,” was warmly – aye, steamingly – received. (We are a simple people, no?) So let’s dive deeper… First, for the record: Jimmy...
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Going to town for climate solutions: Powering the new energy future from the...
“Global warming” is like a general anesthetic. Yes, it accurately describes the trend in the global average temperature. But nobody lives in the global average temperature. Nobody works or plays in...
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Blazing a Path Ahead (BPA) for the next 75
.. originally published in Clearing Up I drove through Eastern Washington last June, when the Columbia ran high. I remember rounding a corner to a vista of Bonneville Dam, with water pouring over the...
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“Rethinking wedges”: R.I.P. “BAU”
Wedges speak to me. I bought the original stabilization wedge format for presenting climate solutions hook, line and sinker. At the slightest provocation, I will administer a “wedgie” – or as my...
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State of the Union: pushing forward and backward on climate
“They deserve a vote. They deserve a vote.” President Obama repeated the phrase over and over, in a powerful appeal to Congress to curb gun violence at the end of last night’s State of the Union...
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60 Minutes’ clean tech bash-fest: hardly a moment of journalism, not a second...
“I’m not afraid to fail because the consequences of avoiding failure are doing nothing” – Clean tech investor Vinod Khosla, on 60 Minutes Most of the blowback to the 60 Minutes mugging of the clean...
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