Saving can be hugely benefiting to all. But it doesn’t show up in increased sales and higher GDP.
A bigger, newer SUV is always better…
Hmmmm?
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jun/10/good-natural-malignant-five-ways-people-frame-economic-growth?CMP=share_btn_tw
Welcome to the World Water Day of 2014: This year’s theme is Water & Energy. By the Way: Earth Day is coming in a month, April 22!!! Look for Seminar information. See the 2011 SustainZine post related to World Water Day. Some info is borrowed here. World Water Day The 44th World Water Day (March 22, 2014): http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/ World Water Day can easily flooded past us without most of us hearing a drop about…
Here is a June 7 2020 post over on IntellZine, our Intellectual Property-centric bog. The blog post was about Renewable Energy patents an how much they have expanded, especially solar IP. Here is the Big winners of Renewable Energy: IP and Manufacturing article. As you look at the companies that are winners in Renewable Energy (RE) you have distinct winners (and losers, especially in the fossil fuel world). But there are entire countries that stand to win…
In one recent edition of the New York Times, there were two very positive articles on energy efficiency and improving the cost/kwh of renewables. The Monday, November 24, 2014, issue featured “Good News on Energy,” by Ralph Cavanagh of theNatural Resources Defense Fund, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/opinion/good-news-on-energy.html? and “Solar and Wind energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels,” by Diane Cardwell, http://nyti.ms/1yJq2r0. From Cavanagh, peaked energy use occurred in the US in 2007 and has trended downward since…
The Farmer’s Dilemma Elias, a farmer in eastern Ohio, stands at the edge of his fields with competing futures before him. Is there a carbon-negative future ahead? His corn stretches toward the horizon, but beneath the soil lie the Utica and Marcellus Shale formations, some of the richest fossil reserves in North America. He could lease to an oil company tomorrow and receive an upfront check larger than any harvest he has ever sold. Yet…
Nice Bloomberg article here. Renewable of Wind and Solar are now cheaper than coal, oil, gas, nuclear. No big need for subsidies to make them competitive. But, there’s also no need, quite the contrary given the externality costs, for subsidizing fossil fuels! Nice article with great graphics show the fall in price for wind and solar.
Next generation of biofuels is still years away | Hattiesburg American | hattiesburgamerican.com: Biofuel is a byline in the energy mix. So biofuel is mandated. And because it is ordered to be true, it must be. And because it is ordered to be true, the mandate must meet the expectations. Thus is the problem with government subsidies… Burning food for fuel (corn to ethanol) is still a rather dumb idea, even though it is finally…
