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Will a Trillion Trees Stop Global Warming
As our society recovers from the triple threats of Coronavirus, economic collapse and social unrest, the longer term threat of global...
Jun 8, 20201 min read

Drawdown - A Plan to Reverse Global Warming
Global Warming or Climate Change — whatever you want to call it — there is a general consensus that burning fossil fuels are heating up...
Mar 11, 20201 min read

Climate Smart San Jose with Ken Davies
The global warming crisis is a slow-motion train wreck that requires an all hands on deck response. Individuals, businesses and...
Mar 2, 20201 min read

Converting a House to Zero Net Energy
Buildings consume 40% of our energy, most of that for heating and cooling. Almost all of this energy is supplied by fossil fuels,...
Jan 31, 20202 min read

Environmental Entrepreneurs - Bob Keefe
Entrepreneurs are the job engine in the United States. Many of the companies founded by today’s entrepreneurs have products or services...
Oct 3, 20191 min read

DOE Continues Solar & Storage Progress
In today’s accelerated and politicized news cycle it is easy to confuse White House pronouncements with the policies that government...
Sep 19, 20192 min read

Politics of Energy and the Environment
With one notable exception, all of the presidential candidates have positions on climate change – AKA Global Warming. President Trump’s...
Jul 28, 20191 min read

The Green New Deal
This week’s Energy Show is about the Green New Deal. Candidly, I’m all for the “green” parts, and not so enthusiastic about some of the...
Mar 21, 20192 min read

Rolling Back Fuel Economy Standards - Dumb Idea
Energy is so important to our civilization that, going back to the invention of fire, there continues to be an abundance of great ideas....
Mar 8, 20192 min read

Clean Energy’s Prospects with the 2019 Congress
We’re starting to see the impact that the 2018 congressional elections had on clean energy. Although the House of Representatives is now...
Feb 7, 20192 min read

Avoiding a Global Warming Disaster
The bad news about global warming continues unabated. This fall the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (fondly...
Nov 27, 20182 min read

Protecting Your Rights to Go Solar with Dave Rosenfeld
We take it for granted that you can install solar on your home or business anytime, just as you can make any other energy saving...
Nov 2, 20182 min read

Recycling Solar Panels with Sam Vanderhoof
On this week’s Energy Show were talking about old solar panels. Specifically, what do you do with them? Solar panels last 30 years or...
Aug 27, 20182 min read

Reducing E-Waste with Lou Ramondetta of Surplus Services
Ours is a consumption economy: we buy electrical equipment, building materials, appliances, toys and innumerable ephemeral knick knacks....
Jun 13, 20181 min read

John Farrell on Why It Costs More For Utilities to Sell Power
For over a hundred years our civilization has been getting electricity from centralized generation. This utility business model relies on...
May 30, 20182 min read

Regional Energy Policy Leadership with Tim McRae
California has the best energy policies for clean and renewable energy in the country. And by no accident, because in general that is...
Apr 18, 20181 min read

Natural Gas - Our Most Popular Fuel
Here’s a trivia question… What do you think is our most commonly used energy source? Is it solar, wind, nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas?...
Dec 19, 20171 min read

National Climate Assessment
Global annual surface air temperatures have increased by 1.8 degree Fahrenheit over the last 115 years. It’s the warmest in the history...
Dec 6, 20171 min read

DOE Grid Reliability Study
The Department of Energy’s “Grid Reliability Study” came to the logical conclusion that low cost natural gas-fired power plants are the...
Nov 6, 20172 min read

Trump’s Anti-Environment Policies
Killing the Clean Power Plan Changing utility pricing policies to favor coal and nuclear fuels Providing huge loan guarantees to nuclear...
Nov 1, 20172 min read
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