Marc Gunther
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Posted 6 days ago
No form of energy not solar, wind, hydropower, obviously not coal or oil comes without environmental tradeoffs.One promising new energy source a vast supplies of natural gas, trapped in shale de
Posted 1 week ago
As natural disasters go, the limnic eruption an explosion of gas from beneath a lake of Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986 ranks among the most horrifying and bizarre: About 1,700 people and 3,
Tags: co2
Posted 1 week ago
Why on earth would Houston, the city of drill-baby-drill, the fossil-fuel capital of America, the city whose NFL franchise used to be called the Oilers, embrace the electric car? For good reason, it t
Tags: electric
Posted 1 week ago
As a small d democrat, and as someone who is skeptical about the idea of expertise, I'm a fan of decentralized power.Decentralized political power, a.k.a. democracy. Decentralized economic power
Posted 2 weeks ago
This week's guest post comes from Jagan Nemani, a MBA from Chicago's Booth School of Business, a former Deloitte consultant and now the leader of a startup called SpeakEnergy.com that is focused on
Posted 2 weeks ago
Until now, Walmart's bold sustainability efforts were marred by a glaring omission.The $405-billion a year retailer has worked hard since 2005 to save energy, reduce waste and sell more sustainable pr
Posted 2 weeks ago
The people who are designing, marketing and selling biotech crops must be doing something right.Despite fierce opposition to so-called Frankenfoods in Europe, which in turn has discouraged farmers in
Tags: europe
Posted 2 weeks ago
People sometimes say we need to save the planet for our kids. I sometimes think our kids are going to save us.If you doubt it, ask Rick Schaden. Schaden is CEO of Quiznos, the fast-food chain best kno
Posted 2 weeks ago
If anyone tells you they know what building a new nuclear power plant is going to cost, be skeptical.No one has built a commercial nuclear power plant in decades in the U.S. During the 1970s and 1980s
Tags: regulatory
Posted 3 weeks ago
By most measures, wind energy has been a great business lately.The U.S. wind energy industry shattered previous records in 2008 by installing 8,358 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity, and did e
Tags: wind
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