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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the 2008 International Global Energy Prize award ceremony The Christmas to New Year period is traditionally ‘hibernation mode’ for blogs, when page views and comment counts plummet (my hits have dropped about 70% compared to early December!). I suppose this is a time when people find better things to... [read more]
The Economist Embraces Climate Pragmatism
"Next steps" to restart climate progress are to pursue emissions strategies that don't have to be centrally motivated by climate concerns, according to a recent article in the Economist. The approach resonates strongly with the recommendations made in the recent report "Climate Pragmatism," the product of the combined efforts of 15... [read more]
Audio Archive: Growing Wind Power
Can the growth of the wind industry substantially reduce our dependence on fossil fuels? And if so, how soon? What evolutions in technology, policy, and economics are necessary to drive that growth? What are the obstacles to a large increase in wind power? [read more]
Maybe It’s Time To Stop Talking About Climate
Maybe it’s time to stop talking about climate change. And to stop pushing for comprehensive “climate policy.” That’s what New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, did last week when he gave $50 million to the Sierra Club to fight coal plants. Coal plants should be shuttered, he said, because they endanger public health, pollute the air,... [read more]
Audio Archive: Fukushima and Nuclear Power
Listen to The Energy Collective's panelists as they seek answers to questions raised after Fukushima and discuss nuclear power's role in our energy future [read more]
The Great Rationing
We need to begin by acknowledging that our problem has no precedent.It appears that polite and reasonable pursuit of a transition to sustainability has failed in the face of a sort of twisted unnatural malice accidentally written into law. We are at the mercy of a tyranny of the "fiduciary responsibilities" of the officers of the large... [read more]
WattHead's Jesse Jenkins on NPR: Nuclear as Usual
Lost in the hyperbolic claims of nuclear opponents, the defensive reactions of the nuclear industry, and the carefully calibrated repositioning of politicians and policymakers is the reality that Fukushima is unlikely to much change the basic political economy of nuclear power. [read more]
Energy Innovation 2010 - Event Recap and Videos
For 35 years, government and the market have been trying and failing to get energy policy right. Congress has failed to pass large-scale clean energy and climate legislation, while China and other competitors are moving aggressively to take the lead in new energy technology. And the market has failed to create needed low-carbon... [read more]
Energy Innovation 2010: Moving the Conversation Forward
For 35 years, government and the market have been trying and failing to get energy policy right. Congress has failed to pass large-scale clean energy and climate legislation, while China and other competitors are moving aggressively to take the lead in new energy technology. And the market has failed to create needed low-carbon... [read more]
The New Energy Conversation
By Rob Atkinson, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger For forty years, presidents and policymakers have promised and planned for a new energy future just over the horizon. While the rationales have varied - reducing dependence on imported oil, stopping global warming, reducing air pollution, creating clean energy jobs - the song has... [read more]
After Copenhagen: From Climate Nihilism to Climate Pragmatism
In late September, Breakthrough Institute Chairman Ted Nordhaus gave the keynote address at the World Climate Solutions conference--northern Europe's biggest annual clean tech event. The conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark in the Bella Center, the very place where the international climate negotiations collapsed less than one year... [read more]
Post-Partisan Power: innovation is not enough
There’s a lot to like in Post-Partisan Power, a proposal for how the federal government should address the climate and energy crises. The proposal was written by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution and the Breakthrough Institute. Focusing on energy innovation and providing $25 billion a year to fund the work... [read more]
Do we need “Post-Partisan Power”?
Last week scholars from the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institutions, and the Breakthrough Institute joined together to release “Post-Partisan Power,” (more here) a paper advocating substantial increases in federal spending on energy research and development in pursuit of goals including American economic growth,... [read more]
The Next Bipartisan Energy Agenda
Only a couple short months after the demise of cap and trade, a new bipartisan flag for national energy and climate reform has officially been flown. It stands as a report released yesterday called “Post-Partisan Power” by scholars at three major U.S. think tanks – including the conservative American Enterprise Institute, the centrist Brookings Institution, and the Breakthrough Institute – and represents a powerful new rallying point for U.S. clean energy and climate advocates of all stripes. [read more]
Green Jobs for Janitors: How Keynesians and Neoliberals Wrecked Obama's Promise of a Clean Energy Economy
By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger A shorter version of this article appears in the October 28, 2010 print edition of The New Republic (and online here, subscription required) In August 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama traveled to Lansing, Michigan, to lay out an ambitious ten-year plan for revitalizing, and fundamentally... [read more]
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