Environment 2/3

Jun 8, 20201 min read

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...

Mar 11, 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 2, 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...

Jan 31, 20202 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,...

Oct 3, 20191 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...

Sep 19, 20192 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...

Jul 28, 20191 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...

Mar 21, 20192 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 8, 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....

Feb 6, 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...

Nov 27, 20182 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 1, 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...

Aug 27, 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...

Jun 13, 20181 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....

May 30, 20182 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...

Apr 18, 20181 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...

Dec 19, 20171 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 6, 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...

Nov 6, 20172 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 1, 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...