Climate Change

Further to my post immediately below, Californians yesterday showed the world that they, living in the most-populous US state, and the eighth largest economy in the world, care enough about their public health, environment, jobs and the state of the world’s climate system to categorically reject the attempt to roll back their GHG regulations. With […]

I’ve been sitting in yesterday afternoon and this morning on some fascinating discussions on the state of play of GHG regulation, how US politics is influencing our work on climate and energy, and what the world is going to look like tomorrow after the mid-term elections here.  (More on that later.) For the moment, the […]

There is a very nice essay on climate change in the NYT this morning in a somewhat unlikely spot:  the “Our Towns” column about what’s going on in various locations around the region outside the big city.  Peter Applebome’s excellent stories are usually focused on local political, social and cultural highlights.  Ignoring the Planet Won’t […]

There is yet more headline news on the renewable energy front.  On offshore wind, I’ve been noting some of the positive developments in several of the last posts.  Go-ahead for wind to generate 70,000 jobs in Britain is the word from the FT.  General Electric, Gamesa and Siemens all announced plans to build big new […]

I noted in the last post below how the UK is ramping up its offshore wind industry and providing the port infrastructure to do this efficiently and in a timely fashion.  I also noted recently the major boost that Google’s Eastern Seaboard offshore cable initiative is giving the industry and that the Cape Wind project […]

Offshore Wind and Ports – What’s the big logistical bottleneck that concerns the British as they try to build a formidable offshore wind industry?  Port capacity.  The good news:  The UK’s Crown Estate leased nine sites offshore early this year that, if fully developed, will provide 32 GW of electricity – 25% of the UK’s […]

It was shocking and sad to learn that the great Hermann Scheer died last night.  He leaves behind an extraordinary legacy.  That he had such vision, energy and commitment is one of the reasons why renewable energy is taking its rightful place in the world economy.  It will be, before much longer, the dominant form […]

Following up on my post of the other day, there’s a poll just out from the Financial Times and Harris:  in the US and the five largest EU countries, “Big majorities of the public … favor the building of more wind farms in their countries, varying from 90% in Spain and 87% in the U.S. […]

The good folks at Change.org have organized this year’s Blog Action Day around water.  (Last year was climate change.) Click here to find out why water matters, and to link up with groups that are very deeply involved.  Then dive in and get involved yourself.

The venerable Matt Wald has been covering nuclear power and renewable energy technology at the NY Times since Hector was a pup.  He has the lead story today:  Offshore Wind Power Line Wins Backing.  A high-voltage cable, costing $5 billion and with a 6 GW capacity, would run offshore connecting wind farms from Virginia to […]

We were in Cambridge this past weekend having a fine time, very much including getting out for Honkfest.  The best band we saw was the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable, “Atlanta’s wildest community band,” but they were all pretty anarchically blessed. Meanwhile, 350.org was staging it’s 10/10/10 Global Work Party.  We saw some evidence of  […]

In my last post below, I once again lauded President Obama and his administration for taking action on clean tech. Hear the message on clean tech jobs and the economy from the President himself.