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Newsom says San Francisco will adopt Berkeley green financing model
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said something that caught my ear: San Francisco is going to adopt Berkeley’s innovative financing program to fund not only rooftop solar (as Berkeley does) but other distributed generation and energy efficiency projects. That is excellent stuff. Hopefully SF can pull it off successfully and influence other cities to follow […]
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A key climate and clean energy pick by Obama: Wellinghoff for energy commission chief
President Obama has stacked his administration with experts and advocates for strong action on global warming and clean energy. Now he has added one more — in an unusually important position as the Washington Post reports: Add a new name to the list of Obama appointees devoted to aggressive action on climate change. President Obama […]
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Dave’s gonna blog from a green internet conference — awesome!
Just a reminder: I’m at the Earth2Tech Green:Net ’09 conference all day today. It looks like about half the people here are media, but if you don’t find the dozens of other outlets for commentary sufficient, you can follow along with the action on my Twitter feed. (Needless to say, Earth2Tech also has extensive coverage.)
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Putting organic baby foods to the test
Mmm. When I had my son last year, I wasn’t lulled into thinking his body was a pure, unsullied canvas. I knew that babies are born polluted and that breast milk is full of rocket fuel. Still, it’s nice to maintain the illusion of purity, so as not to go completely insane. So I buy […]
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EPA tells White House that greenhouse gases are threat to public welfare
The Environmental Protection Agency told the White House on Friday that climate change is a danger to public welfare — a move that takes the administration a step closer to regulating planet-warming greenhouse gases. The agency’s finding — which the White House will now review — comes in response to an April 2007 Supreme Court […]
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This post brought to you via clean solar electricity
I’m staying with a friend in San Francisco who just recently (in the midst of doing a massive renovation of his 1870s row house) put up a solar PV system on his roof. Two systems, actually, one to power his unit and one to power the downstairs unit. After all the city, state, and federal […]
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Bachmann advocates revolution to save country from pricing externalities
“I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not […]
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Obama picks climate, oil expert David Sandalow to oversee U.S. energy policy
President Obama has picked David Sandalow to be assistant secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the Energy Department. He also plans to nominate BP chief scientist Steven Koonin to be undersecretary for Science. And I hear that renewables expert and UC Berkeley professor Dan Kammen (PDF) is on the short list for assistant secretary […]
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World trembles with anticipation as David heads to green tech conference to tweet
All day tomorrow (Tuesday) I’ll be at Green:Net, a greentech conference sponsored by the excellent blog Earth2Tech. Specifically, the conference will be about how the tools that created the net and net architecture will help to revolutionize energy. You can check out the line-up here. Looks like there’s a big appetite for this stuff — […]
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Obama hypes the green aspects of his budget plan
President Obama is giving top billing to clean energy and green jobs as he promotes his $3.6 trillion budget plan. Addressing a group of clean-tech entrepreneurs and researchers on Monday, the president noted that his proposed budget includes $150 billion over 10 years for direct investments in clean energy and efficiency, as well as $75 […]
