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Green Business in Baltimore

October 22, 2009

Posted by Deron Lovaas in Green Enterprise

Tags:
business, cleantech, cleanvehicles, energyefficiency, markettransformation

October is conference month, it seems. This week I spoke at two conferences, and next week is bookended by two more. First up is one that may be of interest to you, if you live or work in the Baltimore-Washington...continued

ISO: Breakthrough Business Plans and New Performance Standards

November 7, 2008

Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
autoindustry, biofuels, business, energy, energyefficiency, globalwarming, markettransformation, oildependence, policy

Some call for an Apollo Program for energy. Others, such as Senator Lamar Alexander, a Manhattan Project. I sent a letter to the Forum section of Issues in Science and Technology commenting on an article he wrote about his big...continued

Countering OPEC by Forging a Clean Energy Coalition

September 18, 2008

Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
consumers, energy, markettransformation, oildependence, OPEC

Check out this op-ed in today's Washington Post by Henry Kissinger and Martin Feldstein, called "The Power of Oil Consumers." It echoes what my colleague Andy Stevenson and I have said about untapped U.S. market power (for those posts, click...continued

The Passing of In Business

January 29, 2008

Posted by Deron Lovaas in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
business, cleantech, markettransformation, media, victories

It's a tough time for print media, with unrelenting competitive pressures from proliferating alternatives for getting news and information on television and online. The magazine In Business: Creating Sustainable Enterprises and Communities became the latest casualty, closing its doors after...continued

On track to energy security

June 21, 2007

Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
fueleconomy, hybrids, legislation, markettransformation, publictransit

The Senate is debating the energy bill again, and fuel economy is likely to come up. Amazingly, Senator Barbara Mikulski of my home state of Maryland just announced her position, which as the Washington Post pointed out is a key...continued

Deron Lovaas
Deron Lovaas
Federal Transportation Policy Director
Washington, D.C.
I joined NRDC after working for several other conservation groups and Maryland's Environment Department. I...
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