Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
In the past few weeks, we have heard a great deal about the naysayers who hijack town hall meetings, offering fear mongering and intimidation but no real solutions for our nation's problems. Starting today, we will begin to hear about...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Last week the New York Times ran a story in which the headline said it all: "New Energy Injects Hope in a Colorado Steel Town." It described how, in a time of record unemployment, steelworkers in Pueblo are finding new...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Two summers ago, I took a tour of a large-scale wind farm off the coast of Denmark. After the boat docked in the charming, tourist town of Nysted, I asked the mayor Lennart Damsbo-Andersen, what impact the nearby turbines had...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Once again, I greet another cabinet appointment by President-elect Obama's with respect. Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is a strong choice to lead the Department of Agriculture. His guidance will be essential on a host of issues facing the department, from restoring...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Last week the Labor Department reported that 159,000 jobs were cut in September--twice as many as the previous two months. Meanwhile, energy prices remain high and Congress just handed out taxpayer subsidies for a host of polluting and costly fuels....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 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
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
I recently spent the a month working out of NRDC’s California offices. I am an Easterner by birth and inclination. I feel more at home on the subway than the freeway, the Adirondack woods than the Santa Monica beach. But...continued→
