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Smoke filled rooms, solar power, and the long shadow of grid parity
An rambling complaint surfaced at TriplePundit.com (slogan: people, planet, profit.) linking a “number of articles questioning the economic viability of solar power [which] recently hit the streets” to “a new, well-oiled regime coming to power in Washington.” We could stop right here to consider that articles questioning the economic... [read more]
The Gulf Oil Spill: What Does it Mean for U.S. Energy Policy?
Exploring the Gulf Oil Spill: What Does it Mean for Energy in the U.S.? Live Webcast June 2, 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT REGISTER HERE for FREE WEBCAST More than a month after the tragic explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, and despite multiple efforts, oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico and the full environmental... [read more]
AUDIO: The Energy Collective Webcast on the Senate Climate and Energy Bill
Yesterday, The Energy Collective hosted a unique, in-depth discussion about the Senate climate and energy bill that Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman had planned to release on April 26, but has been on-hold, with upheaval from Senator Graham's defection on April 24 over immigration reform. LISTEN TO THE WEBCAST AUDIO HERE The... [read more]
Climate Legislation in the US Senate: Will Obama Get a Bill in 2010?
May 6, 2:30 PM ET / 11:30 AM PT Register Here Free Live Webcast Featuring Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, and Energy Collective Featured Bloggers Marc Gunther and Jesse Jenkins In the wake of significant upheaval over the climate and energy bill that Kerry,... [read more]
Audio Archive: A Conversation with Stewart Brand and Marc Gunther
A few of the audience-submitted questions were: "What about the issue of water and nuclear? By that I mean that nuclear uses tremendous amounts of water - which is an issue in the West for instance? is this too much of a strain on this natural resource?" "Turkey Point 6 & 7 south of Miami will cost from $24 B to $ 35 B,... [read more]
A Conversation with Stewart Brand
Live Webcast with a Pioneering Environmentalist February 18, 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST Click here for free registration In Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, (Amazon) lifelong environmentalist Stewart Brand (right) lays out what has been called “a mind-blowing vision for the planet's salvation: migration to the cities,... [read more]
Podcast of Exclusive Energy Collective Webinar: Prospects for International Climate Agreements
On Tuesday, January 26, lead Energy Collective blogger Marc Gunther moderated an exclusive webinar discussion with Professor Robert Stavins of Harvard University, Aimee Christensen of Christensen Global Stategies, and Dirk Forrister of NatSource LLC. The panelists shared valuable insights about what to expect next for... [read more]
Ringside seat on the fight to steer the Chamber of Commerce`s climate bus
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]
TEC discussion about "Nuclear power: An Inconvenient Solution"
Jesse Jenkins is the Director of Energy and Climate Policy of the The Breakthrough Institute, an active Energy/Environment Blogger, and an active participant on the Energy Collective. Yesterday Marc Gunther posted an essay on Lamar Alexander's recent speech on land use. Marc's post is titled Nuclear power: An inconvenient solution. I... [read more]
Experts Discuss Senate Climate Politics and Policy in an Exclusive Energy Collective Webinar
The Senate climate debate is on. Yesterday, Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry released a discussion draft of their "Clean Energy Jobs and America's Power Act" - aka Kerry-Boxer, or for you acronym fans, CEJAPA (see pronunciation guide at end of post!). Always on top of the climate policy pulse, theEnergyCollective.com... [read more]
The Wal*Mart Game-Changer: How Green is Your Sustainability?
Image via WikipediaI've said it before and I'll say it again, if anyone can make the transition to the new green economy work, it is Wal-Mart. Oh, some argue that they are the evil empire, with their huge building footprint and their aisles upon aisles of cheap, sometimes useless stuff. Others will ask, why don't they treat their... [read more]
What does Waxman-Markey have to say about kites?
The answer to the title question is “nothing,” according to Marc Gunther (though he admits of the difficulty of being certain when the bill is 932 pages and still in process). The kind of kites he has in mind are high-altitude solar power collectors, under development by the Makani Power company. That Waxman-Markey has nothing to say on... [read more]
Defending Big Government - Or Why We Can't Leave Energy Innovation to Markets
Marc Gunther, the excellent Fortune magazine and GreenBiz.com writer and fellow blogger at the Energy Collective, published a piece last week skeptical of the Obama Administration's new push to support the commercialization of advanced batteries in the United States and help accelerate the day when efficient plug-in hybrid electric... [read more]
Gunther: "Phony Green Jobs Debate"
Marc Gunther at The Energy Collective pretty much agrees with me on the "green jobs" thing.Let’s get real: We can’t predict oil prices 12 months out. Last spring, virtually no one anticipated the global financial crisis of last fall. And we are projecting the number of green jobs that will be created or lost on a state-by-state basis by... [read more]
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Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More »
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Jesse Jenkins is the director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute. More »
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CSP Today South Africa 2012
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