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David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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To y’all readers, that is
On Nov. 30, we published an interview with Travis Bradford, author of Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry and founder of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development.The interview was reprinted on Alternet, where it kicked up a vigorous, extended discussion. I asked Travis if he'd like to respond to some of the themes and comments there. His thoughts follow.
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I was delighted to see so much serious discussion of solar and other renewable energy sources follow my interview with David Roberts. Many of the questions and ideas readers raised are addressed in much greater detail in my book. But I'd like to take a few moments to address some specific issues.
First, should the solar revolution -- which has already happened in Japan and Germany, and is well underway in other European countries and in California -- be centralized or localized?
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JibJab’s latest
The fellows at JibJab have put up their latest animation. It's a fairly apt and amusing summary of 2006, though I am surprised to see Al Gore and his movie escape mention:
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You really need to ask?
The riffs on energy, climate change, and renewable energy are all the excuse I need to link to Barack Obama's remarkable speech in New Hampshire.
