Nathanael Greene's Blog

About

Bio:: I coordinate NRDC's work on renewable energy--fuels and power--and policies that will advance them. For the last few years, I've spent the lion's share of my time working on biofuels, biopower, wind, solar, and geothermal. Along with a great team from our land, water, oceans, and climate programs, I try to understand what these technologies are capable of, what are the research, development, and economic challenges standing in their way, and what standards 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 (3 and 5 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.

The WSJ tries to use biofuels fear factor to urge climate inaction (October 31, 2009)
Biofuels and climate: first step to getting them right is counting them (October 31, 2009)
A Greener Biofuels Tax Credit (October 29, 2009)
Video: Science on must-fix biomass carbon accounting error (October 26, 2009)
Time to reform biofuel tax credits; Say hello to the GBTC (October 7, 2009)
GAO: corn ethanol is risky and tax credit unnecessary (October 5, 2009)
Independent peer review confirms EPA's approach to biofuels (August 10, 2009)
Bad biofuels politics make for strange bedfellows pressing for science (July 22, 2009)
Nuclear energy folks are starting to sound a little shrill (July 21, 2009)
Wise men saying smart things about biofuels and land use in Science (July 17, 2009)

Proposal seeks fuel boon from blooms | starbulletin.com | News | /2008/07/16/: Work in Maui on algae to biofuels. Projected start date 2011 for 200 acres. At 5000 to 10000 gals pe...
Crosscut Seattle - Gauging the biofuels backlash: This is a thoughtful overview of the complexities of issues these days. Worth a read and not just be...
Peak Oil News >Major progress in technology needed for 25 % affordable renewable energy target: This looks interesting. Argues for using the carbon allowances and auction revenues from a cap and t...