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Book Review: Cheaper, Faster, Better – by Tom Steyer

2024-06-09T16:14:00+00:00June 8th, 2024|Book Review, Business and Environment, Climate Change, Climate Strategy|

I like Tom Steyer. I’ve supported his campaign and his grassroots organizations since 2015 because he's a climate champion. He is an optimistic, strategic, and pragmatic thinker and this book is very much worth the easy read that it is. If you need a boost in well-reasoned climate optimism, [...]

Can Big Oil and Utilities Help in the Transition from Carbon?

2024-03-07T20:49:19+00:00February 7th, 2019|Business and Environment, Climate politics, Energy Policy, Environmental Messaging|

For a while there has been popular speculation that utilities were in a death spiral. They have been hit with pollution regulation, clean energy mandates, higher fuel costs and disruption from clean low cost distributed renewable energy. Their primary purpose has been to “keep-the-lights-on,” and the world is changing [...]

Uranium Mining in the Grand Canyon – What Could Go Wrong?

2018-05-17T13:37:07+00:00May 16th, 2018|Business and Environment, Nature|

I am camped on the Colorado outside of Moab, Utah. The river winds past willows just a few feet from my tent reflecting the red rock canyons. Unfortunately, I learned too late that across the river and upstream several hundred yards is a radioactive uranium mining tailings dump. The [...]

Three Tactics for Dealing with the Solar Tariff Increase

2018-01-25T17:12:06+00:00January 25th, 2018|Business and Environment, Renewable Energy|

There was never much doubt about what the current administration would do with the solar tariff trade case. Now that we know what’s going to happen, what tactics do solar system integrators and installers have for dealing with a panel module price increase? The first step is not to [...]

The Path Forward

2017-10-23T16:00:39+00:00October 23rd, 2017|Business and Environment, Climate politics, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy|

On January 5th, before the inauguration, I wrote about this administration's short-sited energy policy in my post, Trump to Allow China to Destroy US Manufacturing Again Under His Energy Policy. Now almost ten months later, Trump is proving he  will be successful in destroying our opportunities. The following video is [...]