Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
December's Science carried a wonderfully insightful letter from William Laurance from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. (Here's the link to the letter, if you have a subscription, or Climate Progress has pasted it in full here.) In the letter, Laurance...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
My New Year's resolution is to start thinking big. This is harder than it sounds given that the technologies I think about, renewable energy technologies, each generally provide less than 1 percent of the markets that they serve (and the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
As I wrote about here, two months ago, I testified about biofuels before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Its standard practice for committee members to send follow up questions "for the record." Below are the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Just a few hours ago, President Bush signed into law an energy bill that requires more efficient cars and trucks, more and better renewable fuels, more efficient light bulbs, and more efficient appliances. As everyone is quick to acknowledge, the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The big news out of the US House of Representatives last night is that the Democrats including most importantly Speaker Pelosi and Rep Dingell on a comprehensive energy bill that includes a historic increase in vehicle fuel economy, an all...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Tonight I had the pleasure of seeing "Everything's Cool," an uplifting documentary about various people that have been trying to get the message out about the urgency of global warming and what we can do about it. The film has...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, Sen. Bingaman, chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said that he thought the energy bill debate would continue on into December. On the one hand, this suggests that momentum for a comprehensive bill is flagging; on the other hand,...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
No sooner had I hit publish on my post Wednesday night about the UN right to food guy calling the use of any arable land for biofuels a "crime against humanity," than two dueling polls poped into my inbox. One was...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I'm spending most of my time these days working to try to make sure the comprehensive energy bill being reconciled by the House and the Senate includes a robust renewable fuels standard that drives the industry forward and sets clear...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
For those of you who don't subject yourself to media overload on all things biofuels, consider yourselves lucky. There's a mounting level of rhetoric and a sliding amount of substance. This can probably to be expected to continue as the House and Senate move...continued→
