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 [...]
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Governor Ritter Question and Answer Session
November 26th, 2011 
Eric Wilson Is China Headed in the Right Direction?
November 10th, 2011 Chris DeArmond China may be one of the first countries that pops into your head when you think of clean technology, but its government has only just begun to recognize the environmental damage caused by two decades of unhinged economic growth. In a 2011 study, the World Bank found that 20 of the world’s 30 most polluted [...]
Posted in China, Featured Posts, Renewable Energy 
Tags: Chris DeArmond, Coal, Environment, Oil Consumption, Pollution, Solar Energy, Water, Wind Power 
No Comments »The Economic Advantages of Green Energy
October 14th, 2011 Guest Author The world is changing, and maybe not for the better. A look at The United States, as well as many other industrialized countries, finds that nearly 85% of energy comes from fossil fuels. Oil is integral in today’s society: we’re dependent on it. When oil is transported or burned, it emits CO2, among other air [...]
Five Friday Facts: The Nature of Design
September 30th, 2011 Eric Wilson 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 [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Coal, David Orr, Food, Population Growth, Science, Waste No Comments »Energy Efficiency and Economic Recoveries
August 28th, 2011 Eric Wilson Although the United States economy generates something on the order of 15 trillion dollars in GDP, several figures in terms of expenditures have become particularly worrisome. A Five Friday Facts from a few months ago contained the following figure: $202 billion is spent annually on home heating and cooling bills in the United States. In [...]
Posted in Behavior, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed Tags: Coal, Electricity Generation, Energy, USGBC No Comments »EPA’s Renewable Energy Cost Database
August 23rd, 2011 Eric Wilson Until costs of renewable energy can compete with traditional sources like coal and nuclear, it will be difficult for them to gain a large foothold. Recent news of hydroeletric power surpassing nuclear, at least temporarily, indicates that some shifts in electricity generation are occurring. However, finding reliable data to compare these alternative sources to extant [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Clean Energy, Coal, Electricity Generation, EPA, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Nuclear, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »EPA Announces Tighter Regulations for Coal Fired Power Plants
July 12th, 2011 Eric Wilson Last week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it added protections to the Clean Air Act aimed at reducing smokestack emissions that are responsible for causing air pollution in neighboring cities and states. The protections are aimed to replace the EPA’s 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). According to the EPA, “a December 2008 [...]
Making Road Construction More Environmentally Friendly
July 9th, 2011 Eric Wilson Let’s face it, there’s nothing really sustainable about the current transportation sector in this country. While bike sharing programs and walkable, carless cities have emerged both domestically and abroad, the reliance on infrastructure – namely roads and rails, not to mention air travel – alone comes at a great cost to both the pocket book [...]
Posted in Economics, Eric Wilson, Recylcing, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Bike Sharing, Carless Cities, Coal, Environment, Lifecycle, Natural Gas, Solar Roadways, USGBC No Comments »Denver Federal Center Completes 2nd Solar Installation
July 6th, 2011 Eric Wilson The Denver Federal Center, home to numerous federal agencies, recently finished installing the second photovoltaic array. Located in the western suburb of Lakewood, the Federal Center is located just south of Highway 6 and on the new light rail line that will run out to nearby Golden starting in 2013. According to 9 News, The [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Colorado, Denver, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Stimulus Bill, Xcel Energy No Comments »Germany Eschews Nuclear in Favor of Renewable Energy
June 30th, 2011 Eric Wilson As yet further evidence of the backlash from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant’s post earthquake crisis in Japan, German officials have announced that they will shutter all remaining nuclear reactors within the next decade. Last month, the BBC reported that the German leadership would move in this direction. Officially, all reactors will be taken [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Japan, News, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Electricity Generation, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Nuclear, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »
