Nathanael Greene's Blog

About

Bio:: I work on clean energy technologies and policy that will advance them -- energy efficiency technologies, renewable energy technologies, and for the last few years I've spent the lion's share of my time working on biofuels. Basically I try to understand what these technologies are capable of, what are the research, development, and economic challenges standing in their way, and what standard we need to put in place to make sure they really deliver the environmental benefits they promise. I went to Brown undergrad and Berkeley for my masters. I have just enough science, engineering, and economics to be dangerous and use this training to translate the cutting edge energy technology developments into policy recommendations
Roots in:: New York and New England
Favorite place:: With my wife and two little girls by the sea or walking around the West Village here in NYC
Why "environmentalism" matters:: Because everyone deserves clean air, clean water, healthy food, and the standard of living we enjoy here in America, and when I look at my two little girls (1 and 3 years), I realize that the great global warming experiment we're conducting is really a moral challenge to my generation to protect the world for all the generations to come.

In hand wringing over biofuels mandate, safeguards at risk (May 7, 2008)
Massachusetts moves to adopt low-carbon fuel standard (April 24, 2008)
Cape Wind is needed now; MMS should move quickly (April 21, 2008)
The dangers of the food vs. fuel debate (April 20, 2008)
Philpott and I discuss biofuels (April 4, 2008)
Biogasoline and the search for renewable fuels that fit better (March 26, 2008)
Pimentel and Philpott pile on biofuels (March 20, 2008)
Giving voice to my biofuels birthday wishes (March 12, 2008)
Still struggling with land-use change and biofuels (February 19, 2008)
Biofuels: not quite dead yet, thankfully (February 8, 2008)