Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Some of our elected officials have assessed the current financial crisis and decided to back pedal on their commitments to build a clean energy future for America. But a report released today by Deutsche Bank's Asset Management Division confirms once...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Today's Washington Post has a great op-ed written by Susan Hockfield about the urgent need for federal investment in energy research and development. Hockfield asserts that the best way out of our energy and economic crises is by shifting to...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I've written here before about the simple steps people can take to help reduce energy use and cut global warming pollution. To the list of things you can do—such as buying efficient air conditioners and pumping up your tires—I want...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The final sentence in Tom Friedman’s piece from last Sunday’s New York Times has stuck with me this week. Friedman was traveling in Denmark, and he wrote about meeting Ditlev Engel, the president of Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times that outrage is the proper response to last week’s Congressional debate on offshore drilling. I agree. It is outrageous that in the face of the combined energy and economic crises, our representatives...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Congress spent last week engaged in the wrong debate: "should we or should we not expand offshore drilling?" The right conversation to be having is: "Are we going to move America backward in time or forward to a clean energy...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Earlier this week, Congress blocked the most important green energy incentive America has: the renewable energy tax credit. This incentive for wind, solar, biomass and other sustainable energy sources has been allowed to lapse three different times since 2000. Investors...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
During this summer driving season, two things are crystal clear: 1) Americans are worried about soaring energy prices, and fed up with the lack of solutions and 2) how little leadership we are seeing on the issue from the White...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Solving Global Warming
When people learn that I spend a lot of my working hours battling global warming, one of the first questions they ask is, “What do you think about nuclear power?”This is how I reply: I think it is important to look...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
For the second time in two weeks, President Bush returned to the Rose Garden to offer outdated ideas on how to manage America’s energy crisis. On April 16, he trotted out a plan for tackling global warming that was weaker...continued→
