One of the dominant American arguments against public transportation hinges on this idea of “Individual Freedom” – freedom to choose how we get around…
Individual “Freedom,” energy use, and the common good.
Category: Energy conservation
Adaptive Management during the hottest week on record.
The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…
Were New Jersey strandings associated with offshore wind surveys?
Cluster of whale strandings concurrent with offshore wind surveys raises some difficult issues.
What are we asking for?
When talking about de-carbonizing our future, “Responsible Use of Energy” should be in the first paragraph – before we whittle away at what constitutes ‘responsible’ ways of generating that energy.
Offshore wind and habitat changes
As we start installing these many offshore wind projects over the next 30 years, we will be rapidly transforming habitats that marine life has been adapting to since the beginning of biological time.
Twelve years since the commencement of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
It has been twelve years since – due to some reckless, schedule-driven decisions, British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon disaster began.
California wind energy and nutrient upwelling
Harvesting California wind energy will impact the iconic nutrient upwelling which feeds all ocean life in California.
Exposure metrics in relief
…the beauty of this approach is that we don’t have to wait another ten years for the findings to become regulations, rather they provide some guidelines in applying existing regulations to inform current practice.
What is truly sustainable energy?
That Toyota is planning the release of a hybrid “Tundra” in 2022 pretty much says it all….