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Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
So, there was Community Energy Systems (CES). And that was weird, but okay. Now there's the Coalition of Energy Suppiers. Does anyone else want to be a CES
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Diane sent me this article about why carbon trading, like a cap-and-trade system, won't work to lower carbon emissions sufficiently, and that therefore we ought to embrace a carbon tax. I gave her a quick rundown of what I thought of the controversy, and ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Treehugger has a post about a theoretical idea for "food towers," condominiums for farms, to fit into dense urban landscapes. On the one hand, it's a nifty idea that's worth a try--and I have to confess I get a little Tom Swifty-ish when presented with an...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Good op-ed in the SJR today from Eric Grimm, about the perverse attempts to undermine the science of global warming. A lot of advocates of climate change (as opposed to myself, an opponent of climate change ;) ) claim to be speaking in favor of sound scie...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Whoa! Stopped home for lunch today, and what do I find, but that the Supreme Court has ruled (5-4) against the US EPA's refusal to regulate greenhouse gases. Grist has a quick overview here, and you can read the whole opinion, including two dissents from ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
One idea I've been kicking around that I think would be a useful attention-getting tool is to perform a greenhouse gas inventory of Springfield. This basically would be a pretty rudimentary way of figuring out what Springfield's carbon burden is--how much...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
One of the difficulties in a whole range of environmental endeavors is the problem of activating general environmental commitments. That is, how do you translate a general kind of pro-environmental belief into specific actions and into political support t...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Federal judge rules that the Army Corps of Engineers is violating its own laws when it approves the coal-mining operations known as mountaintop removal.One thing that's always important to keep in mind is the lifecycle of energy costs--not just the moneta...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
One thing that's always important to keep in mind is that, as technological development goes, wind power, solar power, geothermal, and all the rest are still in a growth stage. They haven't had decades of industrial investment like coal and natural gas. S...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I don't think there's anything groundbreaking here, but Kirk Westphal, from my alma mater, put together a short video about Ann Arbor's lively downtown (two links to his video are toward the bottom of the linked page). Probably everyone at Downtown Spring...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Some bad news to go with yesterday's good news out of the UK. Those salmon that are returning to the Thames have apparently brought coal mining with them.
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Dr. Podlasek, probably the most visible skeptic of the clean energy plan, after some of the aldermen, has a letter in today's Journal-Register raising a few questions about CWLP's contract with FPL for wind power. (See my exhausting previous posts on the ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
The garden took me to the west-side Lowe's this weekend--no, really, I had no choice. While there, I saw some good and I saw some bad. First, the good: Lowe's is carrying a composter that does pretty well in urban areas (i.e., it's not open air, so you wo...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Nothing strikingly new here, but researchers have identified climates in the world that are likely to disappear entirely, as well as zones that will have new climates, unlike any others we experience today. This doesn't have much meaning for Illinois (we'...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Representative Henry Waxman has introduced his Safe Climate Act into Congress for consideration. I think that it's the strongest bill floating around Congress right now, but also probably the best. As David Roberts in that Grist link notes, the strength i...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I'm going to be on a panel discussing the movie Power Shift on April 11 at the Lincoln Library. Because I'm special, I get to see the movie in advance; otherwise, I'd just drool on the other panelists for half an hour. It's good--anyone interested in clea...
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