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NPR 2-Part Series on California Cap and Trade Legislation

Media coverage of COP17, the latest United Nations climate conference in Durban, South Africa that wrapped up on Friday, was sparse in the United States. With no national legislation in this country to address limits on greenhouse emissions, the state of California has taken some steps ahead of the federal government. Last week, NPR aired [...]

Governor Ritter Question and Answer Session

A few days ago I wrote up the presentation given by former Colorado Governor, Bill Ritter. Ritter currently holds the position of Director and Senior Scholar at Colorado State University’s Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE). After his 30 minute speech, he took questions from the audience. What follows are notes from the question [...]

Five Friday Facts: The Nature of Design

A friend recently lent me her copy of David Orr’s The Nature of Design. I read and reviewed his 1994 book, Earth in Mind several months back. In the first few chapters there were a number of interesting facts. I culled a few from Earth in Mind for a past Five Friday Facts and noted [...]

Biochar Engineering Corporation Brings Biochar Technology to the Rockies

The first time we came across biochar here at 2nd Green Revolution we were exactly one month old. As a result of that post, we were contacted last summer about the publication of Biochar – its Production and Application to Soils which launched at the 3rd International Biochar Conference in Brazil last September. It turns [...]

The Race For A Clean Energy Future: Is China Our Only Hope?

Over the past month, American Public Radio’s Marketplace has aired a series titled “The Climate Race“. Yesterday’s installment focused on the role that China is playing in the clean energy economy. According to the story, China is churning out solar panels and wind turbines and “it produces more alternative energy than any other country.” However, [...]

Impact of Climate Change Bill on Rural Farmers

Over the past century, the number of Americans living on farms has fallen from nearly 40% to less than 2%. As large agribusiness and monoculture farms take over, smaller farmers have had difficulty finding ways to compete. Michael Pollan featured Polyface Farms in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his treatise on food. By making sure that the [...]

BBC’s One Planet Interviews Energy Secretary Stephen Chu

Mike Williams, host of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s program One Planet, interviewed United States Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu this past week. In the discussion, Secretary Chu argues that “the consequences of business as usual could be catastrophic [and that] we must change our way of thinking about consumption.” He goes on to say that [...]

U.S. – Japan Clean Technology Cooperation

2nd Green Revolution has written about the potential positive impacts of strong U.S. – Japan cooperation on clean energy technology. It is therefore exciting to see the two governments now taking steps toward further exchange and teamwork in that sector. On May 4th, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) Minister Toshihiro Nikai and US [...]

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