Communications and Messaging

exponential solar growth?

Adding 1,200 GW of new solar to electricity grids each year will quickly see solar power saturating. Will we figure out how to store electricity on a multi gigawatt scale within a decade?[read more]

cleantech investment

 

Dow Jones VentureSource and Factiva combined their data sets to compare the number of venture deals across cleantech sectors to media mentions in those same sectors. The time frame is 2007 to 2012.[read more]

The Trust Factor

Re-building trust in the energy industry was the topic of the day at a May 15th event hosted by Edelman and TheEnergyCollective.com. The event was the first live, in-person event we’ve hosted, and you can watch the full event here.[read more]

Greenpeace

I hope Greenpeace and the Sierra Club will rethink their opposition to nuclear power. We don't need an all-of-the-above energy strategy, but we do need an all-of-the-above low carbon energy strategy.[read more]

The Burning Question

Rather than speculate on the potential severity of climate events or try to convince readers that simple changes in consumer behaviour will solve everything, this book takes a dispassionate look at the global energy system.[read more]

Julia Reschke/Shutterstock.com

Fear is a powerful emotion. But the time has come to get the message out and show how much nuclear power contributes to society, and how necessary it is in a high energy resource intensive world.[read more]

Senator James Inhofe

Climate skeptics are not all powerful and may not even be much relevant to efforts to decarbonize the global economy. They have, however, cast a spell upon their opponents.[read more]

Nissan Leaf crash test

Here’s some more good Nissan Leaf news to wrap up the weekend. The 2013 Nissan Leaf has received a “Top Safety Pick” rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.[read more]

carbon emissions/shutterstock

Counting renewable energy, and not carbon is bad arithmetic. We keep our eye on the progress of renewables, yet the resurgence of coal in Europe gets ignored.[read more]

this says it all

This week we're including this post from Zachary Shahan of CleanTechnica as part of our ongoing Energy Facts series.[read more]

clean energy support

This year’s Yale survey finds support for prioritizing clean energy remains high and strong majorities support renewable energy and regulation carbon dioxide as a pollutant.[read more]

German solar production

This idea, that you build wind farms where it is windy and solar panels where it is sunny is a curiously controversial one. Some would even lobby accusations of you being “anti-renewables” if you put it forward.[read more]

nuclear energy/shutterstock

Attempts to impose a policy of not selling to any country that will not agree to permanently forgo domestic nuclear fuel production will lock US-based suppliers out of the most important energy technology in the world.[read more]

wind farm/shutterstock

How many people support renewables or nuclear energy, or for that matter fracking? A closer to look at polls shows that support numbers should be treated with caution.[read more]

the gift of clean air

In honor of Mother’s Day, remember our daughters and sons will soon be running this country; we can show them, by working right alongside them, that being a responsible parent means being an engaged citizen.[read more]