Posted January 27, 2012 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Who doesn’t want more good things? And by good things, here’s some of what I mean: pollution cuts that help protect the health of our children and of our increasingly fragile atmosphere. (Just how bad are things getting, climate-wise? To...continued→
Posted November 17, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative works. That’s the conclusion of a new, independent review of RGGI by the Analysis Group. Undertaken three years ago by 10 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, RGGI was designed to: Cut the air pollution from power...continued→
Posted September 12, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his administration talk a good game about transparency and ethics in government. “Folks in this state have a right to know what we’re doing in their name every day,” the Governor told his cabinet...continued→
Posted August 22, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
When New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was running for office in 2009, he promised to be the Garden State’s “#1 clean energy advocate.” He wanted “not only to reduce dependence on foreign oil, but also to make sure we bring...continued→
Posted July 14, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
If you had a program that reduced pollution as it lowered energy bills, created jobs and injected hundreds of millions of dollars into the state economy, would you toss it out the window? Probably not. But that’s what New Jersey’s...continued→
Posted June 3, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
Who would have thought a utility company energy-efficiency program could double as a job-saver? Probably no one but a bunch of environmental economists. But that’s just what’s happened in Michigan, where the state’s energy-efficiency standard—the so-called EEPS—is not only reducing...continued→
Posted May 26, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
In recent months, out-of-state oil interests have been clamoring for New Jersey’s Governor Christie and the state’s legislature to pull out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, in hopes of protecting their billions of dollars in profits at the expense...continued→
Posted April 29, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Anyone who knows me knows I’m tethered to my Blackberry. That means that I’m also tethered, willingly or not, to a network of energy-hogging data centers. They’re the backbone of our information infrastructure—huge, warehouse-like buildings that house equally huge networks...continued→
Posted April 8, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
It was so cold in Dorothy Johnston’s trailer in Hannibal, Missouri that the retired factory worker sometimes couldn’t get out from under her covers to go to the doctor. High heating bills meant “it was a stretch to make ends...continued→
Posted March 29, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
With his pressed Oxford shirt and his white hair neatly combed, Darrel Cubbison, a retired member services manager at Guernsey-Muskingum Electric Cooperative in Southeastern Ohio, doesn’t look like much of a revolutionary. Darrel Cubbison promotes energy-saving ground-source heat pumps among...continued→
Posted March 11, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Living Sustainably
Step aside healthcare and financial reform. There’s a new political lightning rod in the halls of Congress these days. It’s called the lightbulb. That’s right, in the midst of everything from government shutdown fears to unrest in the Middle East,...continued→
Posted March 4, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
If you'd open the website of the Lakota, Ohio School District last week, the first thing you would have noticed, center-page, were the words “Lakota Budget Reductions” spelled out in bold letters. The district, situated between Dayton and Cincinnati, educates...continued→
Posted February 28, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
In a country that can seem crippled by partisan rancor, where we’ve really never had a comprehensive energy plan, it’s nice to see that it is possible to make meaningful progress on some of the most challenging issues of our...continued→
Posted February 28, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
What if there were a mechanism that could help you save money, cut back on pollution, and create jobs all at the same time? Would you jump at the chance to use it? I would. And a few years back,...continued→
Posted February 11, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, U.S. Law and Policy
Things were pretty rough for Marcos Cde Baca before he got work in the energy-efficiency field. He was out of a job, behind on his child support. As an independent carpenter and handyman, he wasn’t even eligible for unemployment. “If...continued→
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