If We Are Serious About Environmental Justice

If We Are Serious About Environmental Justice

This week’s Energy Rant was guest written by Teri Lutz, Director of Sales & Marketing at Michaels Energy. Teri believes in a fair and just energy economy and hopes this Rant edition will inspire our readers to get involved and advocate for environmental justice...
China Holds the Climate Cards

China Holds the Climate Cards

This week’s post is prompted by further research developing my decarbonization course scheduled for May 19, 2021, via AESP, and information provided by the American Energy Society. Would you believe the course is filling up? Just asking. I like and respect the...
Discount Rates, Carbon, and the Ministry for the Future

Cascading Effects and Market Transformation

Like many, I was transfixed in late March by the huge container ship stuck in the Suez Canal. And also, like many, I enjoyed the many versions of the meme of a “little” excavator trying its best to free the enormous ship but making minimal progress. As often happens,...
Zero Net Cost for Zero Net Energy – Melt the Calf

Zero Net Cost for Zero Net Energy – Melt the Calf

Have you ever thrown a cat into the deep end of a swimming pool? Neither have I, but I bet they wouldn’t like it. Likewise, status-quo program evaluators will not like what’s coming down the pike for several reasons, starting with one in this post for residential and...