Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy Politics’ Category
EnergyStar: Who is going to certify our certification programs?
Recently EnergyStar was in the news, and obviously not for the right reasons. If you do not know what EnergyStar is, it is a brand built by the Government to help businesses label their products as energy efficient. The website with it’s ostentatious offers to help you improve the energy efficiency of your house among [...]
March 28, 2010
Tags: EnergyStar, EPA/DOE, GAO, Senator Snowe, sensational environmental politics Posted in: Causes, Government and Sustainability, Renewable Energy Politics 
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Global Warming is a hoax. Global Frying is real…just look at everyone on Fox News
I have to admit, it is impossible to try and separate sustainability and ecologically cognizant behavior. With Fox News, you usually get a good laugh from Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. However, sometimes, you cannot just stand by at the kind of nonsense that gets thrown around on Fox News.
So, here is what I found [...]
December 15, 2009
Tags: climategate, Fox News, politics and global warming Posted in: Causes, Renewable Energy Politics, Sustainability and Media No Comments
Biomass Vs. Petroleum – The plastic “source” wars intensify
Introduction
Plastics are manufactured from hydrocarbon bases that have traditionally originated from petroleum products. This has had two problems:
1. Petroleum products are not abundantly available and their acquisition, transport, etc. are riddled with political and economic twists and turns.
2. Petroleum products have a larger damage on the carbon footprint. How is this? While both biomass and [...]
December 12, 2009
Tags: biomass, biomass to replace petroleum, succinic acid, sustainable entrepreneurship opportunities Posted in: Clean Technology Funding, Renewable Energy Politics, Sustainable Opportunities No Comments
The renewable energy industry decides to “renew and reuse”
I know, the title sounds cutesy, but I couldn’t resist myself. It appears that the renewable energy industry is here to stay, and as part of that, they need to ramp up manufacturing for their products. Setting up manufacturing plants from the ground up can be a tough task. The capital required is immense and [...]
October 18, 2009
Tags: Green Jobs, Manufacturing Industry in Detroit and Iowa, Renewable Energy Employment, Renewable Energy Manufacturing, Solar Manufacturers Posted in: Government and Sustainability, Renewable Energy Manufacturing, Renewable Energy Politics No Comments
It’s okay when we do it…on the machinations of the “new” EPA
Old habits die hard, even if you are new to the game. What with hope, change and all that free flowing juju, you might have figured that all’s well with the “new” changed, and hope-layered EPA. Not really, nothing’s changed over there. Apparently, a one Alan Carlin (learn about him here ) with degrees from [...]
June 28, 2009
Tags: Al McGartland, Alan Carlin, Denial of Science by the EPA, EPA, Federal regulation of Carbon dioxide, Policies of the Obama Administration Posted in: EPA, Emission Control Policy, Government and Sustainability, Renewable Energy Politics, Science and the Environment No Comments
What lies between you and solar energy at your home?
Here are a few things I learned from the SciAm blog:
1. A mountain of paperwork through multiple agencies – federal, state and local, encumbered by draconian laws.
2. Your own energy service provider
3. Any random chock of houses declared to be “historic”
among, of course, a myriad of other factors.
Apparently, the paperwork is so mountainous that some [...]
June 8, 2009
Posted in: Energy Economics, Renewable Energy Politics, Solar Energy One Comment
