A Citizen’s View: City Needs Energy and Climate Action That Matters, Not Pretends
This article was originally published as an op-ed in the Lake Oswego Review on July 30, 2015. Just a few weeks ago, the Lake Oswego (Oregon) City Council spent more than $25,000 seeking to promote renewable energy by purchasing Portland General Electric’s (PGE’s) Clean Wind product. The city now intends to claim being 100 percent […]
There May Be No Such Thing as Pure Environmental Truth, but Deception is Alive and Well
The U.S. EPA recently posted a new YouTube video. It’s not about the dangers of climate change, or mercury, or any of the many other depressing topics the EPA has to address. Instead it’s about renewable energy, and specifically about voluntary Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). Titled RECs: Making Green Power Possible, and produced by the […]
Building the Climate Risk Case for Renewable Energy Development
Renewables have long been promoted as cleaner technologies that can help provide energy independence from foreign gas and foreign oil. Climate change has been part of the picture, but not a very prominent one. Shale gas, which has become an important source of natural gas in the United States in recent years, is a game […]
Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of EV Victory?
This blog post was originally published by Dr. Mark C. Trexler in Sustainable Business Oregon, Sept. 3, 2013. It’s way too early to really tell what the future of “pure” electric vehicles will be. Judging by the incredibly rich value of Tesla stock, one might conclude that the future is bright indeed. But it’s easy […]
Reality Check: It Takes a Village to get EVs to Prime Time
This blog post was originally published by Dr. Mark C. Trexler in Sustainable Business Oregon on January 28, 2013. We bought our Nissan Leaf almost a year ago, and we love it. It’s now our primary mode of transport around Portland, and it’s been great to see the growing number of Leafs and Chevy Volts […]