Published on December 1st, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
If you’re at all like me, then you might find listening to the rhetoric being spat back and forth between republicans and democrats to be a bit nauseating. According to our elected officials, whatever ails our ... Read More →
Published on December 1st, 2014 | by Jeremy Bloom
The government of a Louisiana village decided on second thought that maybe killing all the pit bulls and rottweilers in town might not be the best idea, and backed down from the idiotic ordinance it passed ... Read More →
Published on December 1st, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
By Meteor Blades Twenty-nine states across the nation have mandatory renewables portfolio standards in place. These require that a certain percentage of electricity consumed in the state be generated by renewables—solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, tidal, hydropower—by ... Read More →
Published on December 1st, 2014 | by Jeremy Bloom
The biggest player in the Eurpoean energy market is divesting of fossil fuels and nuclear. E.ON says it sees renewable energy and distributed energy models as the wave of the future. That’s good news for climate ... Read More →
Published on November 26th, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
1 commentThree headlines this week drove home a point that I often make when discussing politics with friends. That point is a psychological phenomenon known as confirmation bias (a subset of cognitive bias), and it’s one of ... Read More →
Published on November 23rd, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
2 commentsBy Meteor Blades Sorry I’m a few days late giving a nod to you on your 80th birthday, Sen. Inhofe. I suspect you had an extra-special celebration this year since you’ll soon be getting back to the ... Read More →
Published on November 21st, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
By Meteor Blades A poll conducted by Yale’s Project on Climate Change Communication has found 67 percent of Americans favor federal regulations to limit carbon emissions from power plants even if that means paying more for their ... Read More →
Published on November 20th, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
By Meteor Blades Sen. Mary Landrieu’s effort to squeak by in the Louisiana run-off election that every prognosticator of note says she will lose, failed in a squeaker of its own Tuesday. She could only get 13 ... Read More →
Published on October 12th, 2014 | by Chip Martin
3 commentsFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be ... Read More →
Published on August 15th, 2014 | by Chip Martin
1 commentThis post originally appeared on PV Solar Report. It is cross-posted here with permission. By Carter Lavin The politics that surround and shape the solar industry can be confusing and hard to navigate. We as an ... Read More →
Published on July 30th, 2014 | by Chip Martin
1 commentBy Chip Martin, Special to RGB In 1957, 20th Century Fox produced a movie called The Three Faces of Eve, starring Joanne Woodward as Eve White, a woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder (previously known as ... Read More →
Published on July 24th, 2014 | by Scott Cooney
There is a term that is often used in the debate of renewable energy whenever there is discussion of adding tax credits for renewable energy or when the cost of energy from renewable sources is discussed. ... Read More →
Published on July 1st, 2014 | by Chip Martin
By Chip Martin, Special to RGB In the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction, Glen Close’s delightfully insane stalker character Alex Forrest famously proclaimed to her victim Dan (Michael Douglass), “I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, DAN!” Alex, you ... Read More →
Published on June 17th, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
So far, the story of US renewable energy transformation has skipped a key chapter, which is the exploitation of our massive offshore wind power potential... Read More →
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