Bill Ritter Jr The White House announcement today on Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is a welcome solution to a problem that has plagued states since 2010. It will go far toward helping all citizens, but especially those on a low and moderate income, to make efficiency improvements to their homes and lower...
Tag: Sustainable Development
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Playing Catch Up: The U.S. is Losing the Renewable Energy Race
Kendall Kraus November 2015 No one enjoys playing catch up. Why work twice as hard after falling behind if you are already at the top of the ladder? Right now, the United States is at the top of the global economic ladder and has been since the twentieth century. However, the U.S. is vulnerable to...
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Fewer Swords, More Plowshares: A Marine Rethinks Defense
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Huffington Post 22 & 23 January 2013 With a new foreign policy team about to join the Obama Administration and with the possibility of budget cuts for the Department of Defense,...
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Oil and Gas in the Crystal Ball
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] ALSO POSTED BY: Huffington Post 13 December 2012 For those of us concerned about the future of the United States in an era of global climate change and international competition over...
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A Silver Lining in Sandy? (Part 2 of 3)
ALSO POSTED BY: Huffington Post 28 November 2012 This is the second in a three-part post about what the Atlantic Coast can learn in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy from victims of other natural disasters. In 1993, flooding on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers produced one of the country’s worst natural disasters at the time,...
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Green Plowshares in the Pacific Northwest
ALSO POSTED BY: Huffington Post & Think Progress 19 March 2012 While the nation’s attention has been focused on ending one war (Afghanistan) and avoiding another (Iran), a different idea about national defense has been circulating lately among some of America’s thought leaders. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat”...
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Let's Talk About the Future We Want
ALSO POSTED BY: Huffington Post 25 November 2011 Here are some questions for the Occupiers, the Tea Party demonstrators, the people engaged in the Arab Spring and those around the world who are too hungry, too tired, too discouraged or too occupied with basic survival to protest. These are questions, too, for the young people...
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A Vison For Green Afghanistan
A Brief Proposal for a Comprehensive Strategy to Develop a Competitive and Sustainable Afghanistan Afghanistan faces enormous challenges. After almost 30 years of war, much of its infrastructure is in ruins, or was never completed. In the wake of 9-11, the international community, recognizing the threat to world peace of a devastated Afghanistan, pledged billions...