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Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 2 - Energy Challenges in an Interdependent World

March 1, 2010 by Pierre Guimond
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    Here, then, are some of the energy-related challenges that form the backdrop to our world’s heightened electricity expectations…   The last two decades have seen some extraordinary changes in the world – changes that have only been accelerating. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, centers... [read more]

Why Stewart Brand’s new book is a must-read

January 5, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Many books shaped my thinking about business, economics and the environment during 2009. Last year was the year that I discovered Nassim Nicholas Taleb and The Black Swan, to my great delight, as well as the year that I began to explore behavioral economics by reading Daniel Ariely’s Predictably Irrational and Nudge by Cass Sunstein and... [read more]

The energy water nexus

February 3, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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Not that we needed any more proof that our energy consumption patterns are affecting the planet’s hydrosphere, but the evidence keeps piling up… Water - another global ‘crisis’? : If you look at the numbers, it is hard to see how many East African communities made it through the long drought of 2005 and 2006. Among people who study... [read more]

Shift

June 25, 2008 by RyanAvent
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The Times: Suddenly, the economics of American suburban life are under assault as skyrocketing energy prices inflate the costs of reaching, heating and cooling homes on the distant edges of metropolitan areas… Across the nation, the realization is taking hold that rising energy prices are less a momentary blip than a change with lasting... [read more]