Friedman illustrates the three key components of a consistent and powerful renewable energy policy: anyone can generate, a guaranteed grid connection, and a reasonable and...
If the government hopes to stimulate the American economy with its renewable energy cash grants, it’s going about it backwards. Cash grants to locally owned...
Can small-scale replace large-scale? With 100,000 mini gas-fired generators in homes, the answer is yes. … Read More
Cap-and-trade puts our carbon mitigation hopes in the hands of financial speculators. Could we do worse? Not by much.… Read More
The NY Times profiled a low-power radio station, noting that the number of these stations could double if Congress passes the Local Community Radio Act...
Two major cities are taking different approaches to who can use data like bus arrival times — generally used for mobile applications that allow people...
Today, in the New York Times small business blog, Robb Mandelbaum examines the membership of the National Federation of Independent Businesses has plummeted and takes...
Commentary by Neil Seldman Technical distinctions among incineration technologies are not important. All these technology cost hundreds of millions of dollars (billions when amortized over...
Recycling and composting are just the beginning. J. Michael Huls, an activist and pioneer in the US recycling movement since 1970, and an adviser to...
The Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative and the Business-NGO Working Group released the BioSpecs for Food Service Ware at the Biopolymers Symposium in Chicago, September 30, 2009. The BioSpecs...
To protect its citizens from deceptive advertising, the state of Vermont implemented a law in 2008 that says that labels like "local" and "locally grown"...
So far, the public debate about cars and climate change has been dominated by fuel economy. But driving has been growing at such a rapid...
A recently opened Walgreens in Fargo, North Dakota, is not filling prescriptions. Corporate greed, not state law, is preventing the retailer from putting a pharmacy...
States that want to spur broadband in their state would do well to look at the Virginia Resources Authority. Created in 1984, the VRA helps...
The Diane Rehm show hosted several prominent solar experts and Cool Earth Solar CEO Rob Lamkin noted the benefits of feed-in tariffs for reaching renewable...