ESG = Especially Savvy Greenwashing
2021-04-08
Don’t be fooled… ESG investing won’t help save the planet. Let’s call ESG investing what it is: ‘Especially Savvy Greenwashing’.Keep Reading
Food And Greenhouse Gases
2021-02-27
Check out the two charts below for a great visual presentation of the carbon and methane emissions footprints of differentKeep Reading
Answers To My Friends’ Toughest Electric Car Questions
2021-02-10
If you know someone who’s thinking about buying an electric car, please share this with them; I put it togetherKeep Reading
How Many People Work At That Power Plant?
2021-01-29
‘Millions of new well-paying jobs’ is the political mantra for accelerating investments in non-fossil fuel energy and transportation infrastructure. AndKeep Reading
Jay Inslee’s “G.I. Bill” For Fossil Energy Workers
2021-01-27
We need to help people who lose jobs in the transition away from fossil fuels. As a reference point forKeep Reading
Before Bailing Them Out, Make Corporations Stop Destroying The Planet
2020-03-19
Make corporate America stop profiting off carbon emissions, and start creating sustainable jobs, as a condition of the bailout. CorporateKeep Reading
If Climate Education Was As Good As Coronavirus Posters
2020-03-14
The world’s governments are moving quickly to educate people about the Covid-19 coronavirus; specifically: 1) how to tell the symptoms;Keep Reading
How Design Made Extinction Rebellion A Global Movement
2020-03-11
Most protest posters are one-offs. And so are most climate protests. But Extinction Rebellion broke that mold, becoming the firstKeep Reading
Make Your Own CO2 Learning Game
2019-10-14
Last week at the Getting To Zero (carbon) conference I played an excellent group game that showed how with aKeep Reading
How Berkeley Can Lead The World In Bold Climate Action
2019-09-19
Let’s act now with radical policies that can change the global trajectory. August 2020: Note that this post is alreadyKeep Reading
Why Berkeley Should Ban Natural Gas Hookups
2019-07-15
Update: On July 16, 2019, Berkeley became the first California city to ban natural gas in new buildings. I’m a businessperson.Keep Reading
Electric Cars’ Low Operating Costs, Confirmed
2017-12-04
Finally some research is coming out about the real cost of owning electric cars – confirming that while they costKeep Reading
Hour By Hour, See the Excess Solar Power
2017-04-04
Update: To see solar (and all other supply sources) on the California grid in real time, just go to thisKeep Reading
Songs About Pollution, 50 Years Later
2017-03-21
Most songs about political issues aren’t very good songs. But check out these tunes written in the 60s and 70s,Keep Reading
Songs From The War on Coal
2017-03-04
Every good fight needs some fight songs, but the climate battle doesn’t have many. People don’t sing much about car emissions,Keep Reading
Marketing Ideas For Electric Cars
2017-01-25
Electric cars in 2017 are selling at a snail’s pace – in the tens of thousands per year. At thisKeep Reading
The Power of Staying Power: Pete Seeger Never Stopped Teaching
2014-02-02
[The following is an email I sent out to my team a few days after Pete Seeger’s death on JanuaryKeep Reading
Will Electric Cars Swamp the California Grid?
2013-03-13
Update: I wrote this in 2013, right when I bought my Nissan Leaf, which is now almost a decade old.Keep Reading