Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Years ago, when I was young, I spent most of my time working on energy efficiency technology policy. Now I spend most of my time working of renewables, but from time to time, my colleagues forget and ask me questions...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The great news of the day is that the House passed it's comprehensive energy bill. Here's NRDC's official press release. As noted in our release, the renewable fuel standard in the bill is a big change in our approach to...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I haven't gotten to do much pleasure reading since my first daughter was born way back in 2004 and even less since my second daughter was born in 2006, but I'm finally trying to tackle something longer than a New...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Last week, Wired carried a very smart article (Clive Thompson Thinks: Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs) about how the invisibility of our energy consumption makes reforming our profligate habits much harder and how gadgets that make it visible could help....
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Well I did say that things would be quiet here at the Switchboard, but I didn't realize how quiet. For my part, I was on vacation and then...how to put this delicately...well let's just say that I took this entry...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Found this post in Triple Pundit, but the original source is actually One Shade Greener. Exciting that progress is still being made on small scale wind power, but what really caught my eye was the news that the DOE has...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Just two bits of news round up. First, as reported by Triple Pundit and the New York Times, Google and PG&E are working together on plug-in hybrids that can store electricity from the grid and then sell it back. It's...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Living Sustainably
I'm going to keep my inaugural entry simple. I'm a senior policy analyst at NRDC where I work on clean energy technologies, which include energy efficiency technologies and clean generation technologies such as wind, solar, and bioenergy. For the past...
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