Environment
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This is the greatest idea ever: Water Bar
Posted by Greg Laden on February 22, 2016 
One of the Great Crises we face in today’s world is the stability and security of the water supply. In America, most people don’t have any problems getting water, to the extent that we tend to waste it, and few people even know where there water comes from. Every now and then there emerges a…
Patriot Panels and Freedom Volts: Don’t Tread On Me!
Posted by Greg Laden on January 14, 2016 
The Nevada state government has just ruined solar energy in their state. From here, Although Nevada is one of the sunniest places in the world, there has recently been a dark cloud hovering over the rooftop solar industry in the state. Just before Christmas, Nevada’s public utility commission (PUC) gave the state’s only power company,…
Incredibly important finding on renewable energy
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2015 
The big complaint people have about renewable energy, or at least, the big complaint that has some merit, is that renewables, such as wind and solar, are intermittent and to varying degrees, unpredictably intermittent. This makes it hard to match demand for electricity to supply. Some aspects of this argument are overstated. For example, a…
Keystone XL Will Become ExKeystone, ‘ell yeah.
Posted by Greg Laden on November 6, 2015 
According to sources, like this one, President Obama is about to nix the Keystone XL deal. One of those “hastily called” press conference is set for just before noon Eastern. Sorry about your stock values and stuff, TransCanada. Thank you President Obama. Now, please pardon those arrested over #KeystoneXL in front of the White House.…
Clean Energy: The State of the States
Posted by Greg Laden on October 30, 2015 
One of the problems we have in making a quick transition to clean energy in the US is the fact that energy production and distribution is typically regulated by states, and some states are not as smart as other states. Or, if they are smart, they are controlled by political forces intent on maintaining fossil…
State Of Emergency in California
Posted by Greg Laden on May 21, 2015 
Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency for the Santa Barbara oil spill. Phyllis Grifman, associate director of the USC Sea Grant Program, is quoted i a a University of Southern California press release as saying, “Nothing worked – they found out about this because people camping nearby or living nearby smelled it.…
Bjorn Lomborg’s WSJ Response to Nixing of Australian Project
Posted by Greg Laden on May 14, 2015 
Bjorn Lomborg has written an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal lamenting the decision of the University of Western Australia (UWA) to nix previously developed plans to accept a $4 million dollar payment from the conservative Australian government, to be matched by university money, to implement a version of Lomborg’s Copenhagen Institute there, to…
An Open Letter to the Industrial Capitalists and Members of the %0.01
Posted by Greg Laden on January 4, 2015 
The following is a letter from John Irving, posted originally on his Facebook page and reprinted here as a guest post: NOTE: JOHN NOW HAS HIS OWN WEB SITE AND HAS POSTED HIS LETTER THERE. So do note that there are comments, including by John, below, but also go and visit his site! Dear Industrial…
What can we do about climate change?
Posted by Greg Laden on October 21, 2014 
I could rephrase this question. What should we do about climate change. The reason I might rephrase this is because we may not be that sure of what we can do, but we should do something. Or, more accurately, some things. There are a lot of possible things we can do, and we have little…
If We Cared About The Environment Like We Care About Sports
Posted by Greg Laden on October 7, 2014 
This video is supposed to be some kind of funny parody but it looks just like my life so I don’t get it!