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40 Years On, Summing Up NRDC in One Word: 'Sound' (adj.)

April 22, 2010

Posted by Pierre Bull in Green Enterprise , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
40earthday, earthday, green, science

Reading today's New York Times on my subway commute in this morning (I got a seat!), I paused when I came across the term "big greens" an article titled, "At 40, Earth Day is Now Big Business": Yet the eagerness...

e-TV

March 24, 2010

Posted by Pierre Bull in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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appliances, consumers, energyefficiency, energyguide, FTC, TV

MTV changed how pop music is consumed by creating a fourth dimension to how music could be played and promoted beyond traditional forms of radio, concerts and selling records (er, cassettes, by that time). The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...

Potential Bio-Energy Resources Are Plentiful in Florida - Let's Develop Them Right

August 11, 2009

Posted by Pierre Bull in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
biofuels, biomass, energyandclimate2009, energysecurity, markettransformation, renewableenergy, RFS

I recently presented at the 2009 Florida Farm to Fuel® Summit (airing on the Florida Channel this Thu, Aug 13 at 8 AM) with the message that bio-energy development - including biofuels and biomass,  which is potentially very abundant...

Heralded economist sheds light on a second inconvenient truth for America and what we ought to do about it

May 14, 2009

Posted by Pierre Bull in Greening China , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
ARRA, china, cleanenergy, energyandclimate2009, energyefficiency, globalwarming, greenjobs, obamaadministration, renewableenergy, waxmanmarkey

Nouriel Roubini, one of the earliest voices to speak out on the shaky economic underpinnings of our financial system and resulting economic crisis in which we now find ourselves entangled, today opined in the New York Times that within the...

Repowering our nation’s energy future: The Waxman-Markey Renewable Energy Standard

April 7, 2009

Posted by Pierre Bull in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
energyandclimate2009, energyefficiency, energysecurity, globalwarming, renewableenergy, waxmanmarkey

"A wise [nation] will make more opportunities than [it] finds." Francis Bacon The Waxman-Markey renewable electricity standard (RES)  will put us on a path to achieve 25% renewable energy by 2025 in our nationwide electricity supply.  It offers an ambitious challenge to guide...

Pierre Bull
Pierre Bull
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Air & Energy, New York City
I advocate for clean energy and energy efficiency in states and utilities throughout the Eastern...
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