Kosovo is a Chance for World Bank, Obama to Show Global Leadership on Climate...
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s now famous comment, “Never let a serious crisis to go to waste,” could not have been more true of Hurricane Sandy, which was a harbinger of the costly...
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What Does an ‘Energy Transition’ Look Like?
Everyone who works on energy futures – myself included – spends a great deal of time envisioning and then evaluating the scientific, technical, policy, and behavioral factors needed to initiate and...
View ArticleGood Electricity Grids Make Good Neighbors
In the poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost asserted that “good fences make good neighbors.” World history is replete with foreign policy built around physical walls, from Emperor Hadrian, to the Great...
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When Seeking the City Solution on Climate, Don’t Forget the Suburbs
Our cities have the potential to be a key climate change solution. Already they are hot-beds of innovation in local and global approaches to the nexus of sustainability and quality of life. People who...
View ArticleWhy You Don’t Need Fossil Fuel to Fight Poverty. (Clean Energy Does it Better.)
Last year President Obama launched Power Africa, an initiative to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than two-thirds of the population is without electricity. In a parallel move,...
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Three “Next Steps” for California Climate Action
California enacted its Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) in 2006. Since then, an entire network of interacting, mutually-reinforcing legislation has evolved in the state, historic in how the...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Is Ushering in a Smarter Power System
Written with Craig Lewis It’s ironic that a storm whose widespread blackouts left millions of Americans in the dark is finally helping us see the light. Hurricane Sandy brought devastation and loss to...
View ArticleThe Gathering Storm: U.S. Must Lead Action on Climate Change
Co-authored with Dr. Michael Mann Winston Churchill saw the gathering storm long before the rest of the world. Europe sacrificed millions of people before it openly acknowledged and then directly...
View ArticleA Clean Climate Must Be a Consumer Commodity
The United Nations Climate Summit taking place here in New York is, of course, a venue for important scientific releases highlighting the now well-established consensus on both the economic and social...
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The Future of Coal Passes Through Kosovo
A 1930s-vintage coal plant in Kosovo In 2013, the World Bank pledged to stop loaning money for new coal energy projects, unless no financially feasible alternatives exist. President Obama has said the...
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