In April, 2009 NPR ran a series of programs on the future of the US electric grid. The stories were accompanied by an interactive graphic on their web site that provided a compact visual representation of a lot of information about US electricity production and the US electric grid.
Tesla Motors, the start-up electric car manufacturer bidding to be the first significant new auto company in the US in over a generation, filed with the SEC for an initial public offering of stock. Tesla’s S-1 registration statement, filed with the SEC on January 29, 2010, provides the required financial information about the company prior [...]
A new round of Energy Star rebates to encourage consumers is coming soon – but these are funded by the stimulus program for this year, so they will probably not last long. $300 million is being made available to the states along population lines, with the focus on larger energy-using appliances. Each state was allowed [...]
Berkeley, California pioneered the idea to advance California’s Million Solar Roofs program and it’s finally spreading and gaining traction nationally. A State House Bill wants to bring it to Massachusetts. PACE, or Property Assisted Clean Energy financing, is another example of applying a long-standing tool to a new problem – financing renewables for homeowners. Renewable [...]
President Obama gave an excellent State of the Union address last week. But in covering so much ground – as Presidents invariably do – he missed an opportunity to drive home a fundamental message – his highest priority policy initiatives are all about building a stronger, more prosperous economy. Education – a well-prepared, agile workforce [...]
While the challenges of passing comprehensive energy and climate change legislation gets most of the attention and generates even more of the national agita, the simple and effective practice of leading by example gets far too little. Case in point – President Obama’s Executive Order of October 5, 2009 directing the government to create an [...]
Investors, policy makers and interested observers can be forgiven if they’re having a hard time determining whether they should be optimistic or pessimistic about the future of emerging companies in sustainability based on what’s going in venture capital. The best advice is probably that they shouldn’t be trying to do it at all – at [...]
