In 2008, the Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett was named best Business and Finance Journalist in the British Press Awards and was highly commended in the Reporter of the Year category for her coverage of the credit crunch. She also authored the book “Fool’s Gold” about the origins of the global financial crisis. We find [...]

A physicist, a chemist and an economist are stranded on a deserted island. A case of canned food washes ashore. The physicist says “I can open these cans by climbing that tree and dropping rocks on them!” The chemist says, “No, I can open these cans by creating a corrosive solution from salt water and [...]

- The latest issue of Foreign Affairs is out and is filled with climate and energy related issues: an analysis of the upcoming Copenhagen Conference,  “Black Carbon” emissions, Cap and Trade versus a Carbon Tax, and a contrarian forecast for an extended period of low oil prices.  We expect some insightful commentary from this well-respected [...]

There must be something about mid-July that triggers looking back.
A year ago July may turn out to be the date of “Peak Oil” although it will be many more years before we know for sure.
40 years ago on July 20, 1969 was the first manned lunar landing.  (And NASA is announcing plans to return to [...]

Okay, the pile on Sarah Palin  is so high that we’re just going to crawl on top of it.  We refer you to an op-ed on Cap and Trade she wrote for yesterday’s Washington Post.
Why is this the new focus of her attention? Because, Obama’s Cap and Trade Energy Plan “is at the top of [...]

Today’s New York Times was heavily tilted to renewable energy, both purposely and not:
Debate on Clean Energy Leads to Regional Divide: The lack of a national grid is a common complaint/refrain for renewable power developers: optimal generating sites are located far from end users. This is an interesting scoop, then, from Matt Wald on [...]

The magnitude of the change that is encompassed by even the term “alternative energy,” which is just a portion of the broader “cleantech” universe, is staggering. Over the next roughly two generations (call it 50 to 60 years), the world needs to get itself largely off of fossil fuels as sources of energy. Driven by [...]