Procrastination has gotten me again. The title to this post has been marinating for a couple months now, waiting for 30 minutes of inspired writing to give form to the thought that an awful lot is riding on this shift to cleaner energy. Well, it looks like Department of Energy Secretary Chu has beaten me [...]
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November 29th, 2010 
Justin Manger Californians Keep Emissions Curbs on Track with “No” on Proposition 23
November 5th, 2010 Justin Manger Californians voted to keep the Global Warming Solutions Act in place on Tuesday, one of many little talked about state ballots measures that were up for a vote in different areas of the country. The act (Assembly Bill 32 or AB32) was passed in 2006 and aims to cut the state’s industrial CO2 emissions to [...]
“Rare Earths” and China
November 1st, 2010 Justin Manger After a “wake-up call” from China, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently joined Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara in calling for the world to develop new sources of the “rare earth” minerals that are used in production of everything from missiles and computers to hybrid cars and MRI machines. Many of the green and clean [...]
Posted in Business, China, Clean Technology, Featured Posts, Green Economy, Green Products, Japan, Justin Manger, Policy 
Tags: Battery, Green Product, Green Technology, Rare Earths 
No Comments »Japan Starts Mining Old Electronics
October 20th, 2010 Eric Wilson Last year while visiting a local landfill, the tour guide hypothesized that a time would come when humankind would have to mine the landfill in order to recover valuable resources. While this is currently taking place to some extent with methane extraction, the implication was that there were products in the landfill that could be [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Japan, Recylcing Tags: Cradle to Cradle, Landfill, Rare Earths No Comments »Weekly Presidential Address Discusses Clean Energy
October 6th, 2010 Eric Wilson This past Saturday during his weekly address (which can be seen below), President Obama stated that there is “perhaps no industry with more potential to create jobs now – and growth in the coming years – than clean energy.” In particular he cited a recently approved solar energy installation in California as an example of [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Policy, President Obama Tags: Battery, Clean Energy, Green Jobs, Hybrids, Jobs, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Oil Dependence…Will Anything Change?
October 1st, 2010 Justin Manger From a well done Special Feature: Energy Urgent in the Washington Post, here are today’s facts about our overwhelming reliance on oil. More than half of U.S. oil use — and about one in eight crude oil barrels worldwide — goes to fuel our cars and trucks. #1- The U.S. is still the world’s largest consumer [...]
Posted in China, Five Friday Facts, Japan, Justin Manger, Policy Tags: Cars, Energy, Natural Gas, Oil Consumption, Peak Oil No Comments »China Tops US as Most Attractive Renewable Energy Market
September 21st, 2010 Eric Wilson According to accounting firm Ernst & Young’s recently released report (PDF) China has surpassed the United States as the most attractive market for renewable energy. Ernst and Young’s index had ranked the United States at the top of its “Renewable energy country attractiveness indices” since 2006. China (69) is two points ahead of the US [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Bio-fuels, Biomass, Geothermal, Natural Gas, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »World’s Worst Commutes; No U.S. City in Top Ten
September 7th, 2010 Justin Manger The other day we wrote about the ten day traffic jam in China. This is a brief follow up on how rapid urbanization around the world is making U.S. rush hour battles look tame. IBM released its first Car Commuter Pain Study a few months ago that surveyed “8,192 motorists in 20 cities on six [...]
Posted in Behavior, China, Japan, Justin Manger, Policy, Transportation Tags: Cars, Trains No Comments »
