Monday, May 20, 2013
Last week in Phoenix, I watched the very conservative governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, deliver a brief keynote speech to open the second day of the CleanTech Future conference put on by CleanTech Connections and the Arizona Commerce Authority. Nineteen...
The sequester. Continued Congressional gridlock. Declining levels of venture capital funding. High-profile bankruptcies. The boom in low-cost natural gas. As the Obama administration seeks to find its footing for a second term, there appear to be plenty...
I'm not optimistic that our nation's clean-energy future will suddenly turn into the campaign issue that it should be. But looking beyond the November 6th election, I've seen some recent signs that a more bipartisan push for clean-tech growth might be...
For two days in mid-July, 100 miles off the northern coast of Oahu in Hawaii, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz played host to the first large-scale demonstration of the Navy's Great Green Fleet. More than 70 aircraft, including F/A-18 Hornet...
To those of us in the industry, clean-tech deployment in the U.S. is still a long way from what it could or should be. But as was seen in last week's release of Clean Edge's 2012 State Clean Energy Index, there are plenty of signs of positive momentum,...
In the Canadian province of Alberta, the Athabasca Oil Sands and the Keystone Pipeline are not the only important energy stories. In Alberta's capital of Edmonton, Montreal-based Enerkem is building a full-scale commercial plant that will use a thermo-chemical...
Who's harder to educate, investors or politicians?
Being in the clean tech industry these days is a little like how it must feel to be one of the Republican presidential candidates. One day things look great, you're the talk of the buzz-o-sphere, riding a surge of momentum as The Next Big Thing. But wake...
Here's a headline that I bet you didn't see (at least in the United States) in the past month, but based on the facts, could have been written:
News item: Several months after a crippled nuclear reactor disaster that shocked the world and upended long-term global energy strategies, a group of prominent rock musicians have scheduled a historic benefit concert on August 7, 2011. Performers led...
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