By John Addison (9/24/08). Chrysler builds on the success of its 38,000 GEM EVs that are currently on the road in the U.S. with new battery-electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid announcements. Any time I visit university towns, corporate and government fleets, I see these GEM electric vehicles being used for practical transportation and hauling. Often, [...]
I was contacted last week by a journalist doing a story on ‘the future of water’. When I asked what the publication was, I was told it was for Esquire. Needless to say I was only too glad to help, – it’s not often I have the opportunity to have my name in print alongside [...]
by Marguerite Manteau-Rao (This post originally appeared on La Marguerite blog) Sustainability wikis such as Wikia Green or Appropedia have an important role to play, in the gathering of solutions for a sustainable future. The big challenge of course, is how to engage contributors into volunteering free content. As a content creator in the sustainability [...]
by Richard T. Stuebi Great blog post last week by David Roberts in the Huffington Post profiling a new country tune entitled “Drill Here, Drill Now”, written by a Nashville artist named Aaron Tippin. For those who want to skip the music, here are the lyrics: Hello … Is anybody out there listenin’ in Washington [...]
Author: Mark Henwood Capping a crazy week, broad markets end up, while commodities retreated slightly.Camino’s indices ended the week mixed amid highly volitile trading. In Biofuels, we again saw the potential for huge losses driven by poor risk management practices applied to hedging strategies. Read more here. Veresun (VSE) dragged the Biofuels strategy down for [...]
By John Addison (9/18/08). FedEx is sometimes referred to as a bellwether for the U.S. economy. The bellwether appears to be doing OK, based on the quarterly financials which FedEx released today. Revenues increased, but earnings decreased 22% over a year ago. For fiscal year 2009, FedEx expects to earn $4.75 to $5.25 per share, [...]
by Cristina Foung My favorite green product of the week: the Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicleWhat is it?The Chevy Volt is being called an “extended-range electric vehicle.” And while the wheels are turned directly by electricity, there is a small gasoline engine which will kick in to generate said electricity. In any case, now that [...]
With high energy prices, one would think that energy companies would awash with cash and would be investing in their future. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. The US energy industry in particular is only spending $ 4 billion on research and development while making record tens of billions in profits. So, what’s [...]
by Heather Rae Installment 1: Fuel Switching Mounds of firewood dot the backroads of Maine, like warts on a toad. This old house will make use of the large maple that fell on my husband’s land; it’s mostly cut into mis-shapen hunks that will fit into the old leaky Home Atlantic wood stove that commands [...]
by Marguerite Manteau-Rao Two weeks and 77 tweets later, the Twitter “green_watch” project has come to an end. Lots of insights, problems raised, and beginning of answers. The goal was to use Twitter as a real time, online reporting tool for my personal energy consumption, round the clock. Lessons learned from the project: #1. The [...]
by Richard T. Stuebi I just returned from my first trip to China – a whirlwind ten-day tour spanning the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Wenling – involving a number of private meetings (some with senior public officials) as well as public presentations at PennWell’s China Power Oil & Gas conference and at [...]
Those of you that know me know that fighting climate change is an issue near and dear to my heart – and day to day life, since I am currently involved with a start up working on helping to deliver even better transparency and environmental integrity to carbon credits. So as a small government, energy [...]
by Cristina Foung My favorite green product of the week: the Tendril Residential Energy Ecosystem (TREE) What is it?TREE is an end-to-end residential energy management system. In a nut shell, the system allows you to monitor your home’s energy consumption. It gives you real-time consumption details, can predict your next bill, and help you compare [...]
Strategies for Staying Warm This Winter,A Call-in Program on Maine Public Broadcasting Network Radio “On Friday, August 29th, MPBN News & Public Affairs Director Keith Shortall spoke with two energy experts, Dan Thayer and Heather Rae, about home heating issues and tips. They took calls from listeners with questions and concerns about home heating issues. [...]
Op-Ed by John Addison (9/11/08). My ninth trip to teach a workshop at Two World Trade Center never happened because of the great tragedy 9/11. For years Sun Microsystems, my former employer, had invited me to conduct a series of workshops about technology and strategy. Much of the Wall Street ran on Sun servers, Java [...]
by Richard T. Stuebi Before I was introduced to EnLink Geoenergy Services in 2000, I had never heard of geothermal heat pumps (GHPs), even though I had been in the energy industry for almost 15 years then, and even though GHP systems had been in successful operational service for over 50 years by that time. [...]
Author: Mark Henwood Emerging markets (EEM -7.7%),EAFA (EFA -6.5%),and commodities (DJP -5.8%) drop sharply also. With only 3 of the 87 companies in Camino’s indices rising, this week ranks as the worst one week period since we started our commentary. And the underlying news, for instance in Solar stocks, wasn’t too bad: LDK Solar (LDK) [...]
(By John Addison 9/4/08) The warm summer breeze carried the aromas of ripe berries, almonds, fresh honey, heirloom tomatoes, and exotic mushrooms. I was like the cartoon character lifted by mouthwatering fragrances and carried to the source in a hungry trance. I was soon in the middle of a farmers market, a tradition as old [...]
by Cristina FoungMy favorite green product of the week: the Nova solar camera bag from Eclipse Solar Gear What is it?The Nova solar camera bag first and foremost is a camera bag. It’s a large cavity bag that can hold an SLR and 3 lenses. It also comes with adjustable foam dividers so you can [...]
by Marguerite Manteau-Rao This week, I started a new experiment, this time using Twitter to monitor my energy consumption 24/7. A Web 2.0 version of my earlier Daily Footprint Project, when I kept a diary of all my carbon footprinting activities for 30 days. The project is called “green_watch” and you can follow it on [...]
