Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Today, NRDC is launching a new feature on our website (http://www.nrdc.org/renewables/) and I’d like to know what folks think of it. This new tool is designed to help regular people from farmers to politicians, financiers to reporters understand that renewables...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
A few weeks back Florida Power and Light asked NRDC to support a wind project that they have proposed for St. Lucie, Florida. Energy project siting battles take a lot of resources, and NRDC simply can't afford to get involved...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
Today we pressed send on our written comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind project.The DEIS was prepared by the Mineral Management Service as part of the permitting process for the project....continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I spent yesterday and today at the Future Fuels conference in DC, where I'll be giving this presentation (2.5MB file) shortly. There are some other interesting presentations here, that I believe will be on the conference web site soon. I'll...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Cai Steger, our former summer business fellow extraordinaire, sent me an email recently positing a set of year and cleantech pairings. As he put it: It certainly seems as though the last few years, one specific technology has captured the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Partly inspired by the chance to use "ping-pong" and "pop" in a title, and partly because I've already speculated cleantech investing as a whole could suffer if ethanol's fortunes fall too far too fast, I've been thinking about investment bubbles today. A...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
So this article from the Financial Times (subscription required) argues that the supply of polysilicon is finally increasing thanks to production facilities in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. As noted in the article: "In recent years, solar power growth has...continued→
