Posted May 4, 2012 by Ralph Cavanagh in Solving Global Warming
Although environmental and consumer advocates may sometimes differ over the best ways to increase energy efficiency, we share a strong common interest in ensuring that America pursues every opportunity to save energy more cheaply than it can be produced. That’s...continued→
Posted April 9, 2012 by Ralph Cavanagh in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
If you ask most people why oil prices are so high, their responses revolve around two distinct theories: A greedy “Big Oil” cabal is driving prices to excessive levels through devious strategies of market manipulation. However, a host of investigations...continued→
Posted April 1, 2011 by Ralph Cavanagh in Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
Future historians will debate the precise moment at which the age of giant coal and nuclear power plants passed unmourned into memory, even as global oil consumption began a sustained decline. But it is closer than you think. It will...continued→
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