The Smart Money
May 23, 2012 2 min. read

     I went to a very interesting presentation a couple of weeks ago:  The good folks at the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes and their partners at SAM, a Zurich-based group focused on sustainability investing, took the time to enlighten several of us ink-stained wretches of the press (if I can still characterize myself as such […]

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Climate and Energy Lists
January 5, 2012 3 min. read

Having done the Year End Review, I’ve been looking a bit at some of the end of year/beginning of year lists lately and thought I’d share some of these.  (Sorry to have been off the air for so long, but I had final papers to evaluate, had shopping to do, letters to write, helped out […]

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Gas, Renewables and Fracking
January 23, 2011 4 min. read

(Here’s a great graphic from DOE’s Energy Information Administration that shows how we deploy energy in the US.  Gas is a big factor.) I caught this comprehensive but succinct item at the NYT recently:  Time to Tap the Bounty of U.S. Natural Gas.  It lays out the fact of the astonishing ballooning of new, proven […]

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Fear and Loathing on Greenhouse Gas Regulations
February 26, 2010 5 min. read

I wrote last month about The Reaction to EPA’s proposed regulations on greenhouse gases.  The virus of fear is spreading.  People who should know better, in my opinion, namely eight Democratic Senators from coal, oil and industrial states, wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson warning her, for all intents and purposes, to back off.  Coal-State […]

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