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If we were to stick with our coal phase-out strategy without wind, we would need to burn more natural gas. The reality is that when the wind blows it gives us the opportunity to burn less natural gas when it’s being used to displace coal. This is partially why greenhouse-gas emissions associated with electricity generation in Ontario have fallen by two-thirds since 2003.[read more]

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The United States should undertake a national initiative to return the manufacture of consumer electronics and mobile apps devices to its shores. Any such return faces daunting obstacles: re-establishing supply chains, re-training a work force, dealing with labor cost issues and all of the related expenses. But the payoff would be huge and would go well beyond the usual Red Herring of job creation. At stake is energy security, military security and a cleaner, more stable environment.[read more]

 Last year, Google invested more than $915 million in clean energy projects–solar, wind and transmission. That’s a lot of money, even for Google, which had $38 billion in revenues in 2011. The investments don’t appear to be core to the company’s mission of organizing information, and they have attracted criticism, as well as some...[read more]

 Led by Unilever, Astra Zeneca and Nike, consumer brands are taking climate change more seriously than ever, says a new report from Climate Counts, a nonprofit that rates some of the world’s largest companies on their climate impact. Big companies are reporting emissions, committing to targets and becoming more vocal in the policy...[read more]

The advanced energy storage industry must focus on making the case for its technology. Technology geeks and policy wonks will never make a market for our products. We need to take the case for energy storage to the consumer. That is what Steve Jobs would do.[read more]

Photo credit hildgrim Like Symantec, Apple too have a significant Green story that they are not telling – and it just got a lot Greener! Why do I say they have a Green story in the first place? Aren’t they just constantly exhorting us to buy their products? How is that sustainable? Well, let me start by making a confession – I am an...[read more]

As Dave Roberts says in the Prospect piece linked in the post below, cars are incredibly over-engineered given their typical use. Every weekday, tens of millions of Americans get into vehicles that are full of passenger space which won’t be used, with engines capable of horsepower and speeds that won’t be attained, holding fuel tanks...[read more]

With the arrival of the Apple iPad last week, it was clear that the world is in the middle of a technology boom and it was even clearer that we all love it. Whilst some couldn’t help comment on certain missing features (the web cam, the USB connector and so on), nobody was condemning the entire idea of portable communication devices to...[read more]

Will Apple move into home energy management, and if they do, can they make it sexy and front-of-mind for everyone? I made this point in a reply to a post earlier on the IBM Global Eco Jam and I thought it could well do with being fleshed out to a full post here to see what others think. In case you were hiding under a rock yesterday,...[read more]

Spends more on lobbying in Q4 of 2009 than any other group did all year It’s no secret the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was embroiled in one two of the most expensive lobbying efforts in the organization’s 98-year history in 2009. According to lobbying disclosure forms released this week, the Chamber spent $123 million on all lobbying...[read more]

On the heels of my post about Apple leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, here are a few more links and excerpts for eager readers (who have been spared a longer post that vanished into the ether as pixie dust crashed Mozilla and my prior unsaved draft) (emphasis added). 1.  The Chamber`s opaque policy-making mechanism on climate,...[read more]

So now America’s biggest business lobby and late-night comic David Letterman have something in common: They have really, really embarrassed themselves. Of course, there are significant differences between Letterman’s womanizing and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s backward-looking opposition to climate-change legislation, which is causing...[read more]

QuickerTek introduced the Apple Juicz, a solar-powered charger to power the Apple MacBook  Air. The Apple Juicz Solar Charger requires the sun to charge your MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. The flexible thin-film solar cells will charge the MacBook Air in five hours. Since the MacBook Air has a non-removeable battery,...[read more]