In Focus: DIY Consumption
There is a revolution underway that is transforming consumption. If the twentieth century was marked by hyper-consumption the twenty-first century will be marked by collaborative consumption. This new...
View ArticleAmerica Speaks: 57% Want Government to Address Global Warming
Four out of five Americans now believe A recent poll from AP-GFK poll on climate values reveals that four in five Americans believe that “climate change will be a serious problem for the United States...
View ArticleReview: The 2012 Solar PV Industry
The difficulties that the global solar industry experienced in 2012 were both clear and expected. Continuing excess solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing capacity spurred a collapse in prices across...
View ArticleThe Visable Change in Asia’s Energy Consumption
As people are coming to understand, Asian economic growth over the past two decades—despite its great adoption of oil—essentially runs on electricity, most of which is supplied by the burning of coal....
View ArticleConfimed Shrinkage: Solar Venture Capital Funding
The amount of venture capital (VC)—early-stage funding with higher risks, but high potential returns—going to solar companies continues to shrink, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group....
View ArticleThe Role of Medicine in Sustainability
As we scour our civilization in an effort to identify and rid ourselves all of all things unsustainable, perhaps we should look past cleantech for a moment and examine the wider circles of our lives –...
View ArticleMy Open Letter To Rep. Cliff Stearns
Dear Congressman Stearns, I imagine yesterday must have been a difficult day for you given that President Obama’s decision to try and do something crazy like make healthcare more affordable and more...
View ArticleDigging into the DOE’s Energy Consumption Predictions
Here we continue our look at the DOE EIA’s projections of U.S. energy consumption through 2035. In this post we look at what they foresee happening in the commercial sector (essentially composed of...
View ArticleWill Tesla Motors Change the World?
It’s a little bit mind-boggling to think that only a century ago, cars were just starting to become available to the average man. Fast forward to today and almost everyone in the modern world has a...
View ArticlePaul Ryan on the Environment
Over the weekend, presumptive Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney chose Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. In naming the Tea Party darling as his Vice-Presidential...
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Electric Utilities: Adapt or Die
Two seemingly unrelated announcements drew much attention in the electric utility industry recently. First, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) (the trade group for the U.S. electric utility industry)...
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