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The Power of Mail Order, April 17, 2008
There's a Silicon Valley company which believes that some day you'll purchase electricity for your home the way you current rent DVDs from Netflix - through the mail. Seriously....

Fuel of the Future, April 15, 2008
Do you remember a car called the Karmann Ghia? What if they brought it back like the VW Beetle, only it was powered by a hydrogen fuel cell? That would be cool - especially if you had a laptop computer...

The Ultimate Dirt Bike?, April 8, 2008
A hydrogen fuel-cell speed bike, and harvesting electricity from dirt - my latest postings over at the Fuel Cell Store Blog....

Green Blog Fades to Black, December 16, 2007
Ecotality Life, the group blog where I have recently been blogging about alternative energy and so-called "green" tech, is ceasing publication in its current form - despite rising readership. I happen to know that some of the regular contributors there...

Eclectic Eco-News, November 29, 2007
It's an eclectic mix of stuff at Ecotality Life today, as several posts I wrote over the past few evenings have finally been moved from "draft" to "published." I've got a look at eco-friendlier fireplaces, an update on the fight...

Eco Update, November 26, 2007
Over at Ecotality Life, I've got a post about a car maker based in the Nashville area that even most Nashvillians have probably never heard of. Plus a look at the future of zeppelin travel. And a post looking at...

Green Bean Casserole, November 22, 2007
Here are ten ways to have a Green Thanksgiving. Brett Favre is involved....

Green Fast Food, Clean Fast Cars, November 21, 2007
Over at Ecotality Life today I've got one post about eco-friendly fast food, and another about the next Honda I'd like to own, a hydrogen fuel cell-powered sedan called the Honda FCX Clarity. Other recent posts look at "green" cosmetics,...

The Latest in Eco-Tech, October 29, 2007
Be sure to check out my latest posts on environmental tech and trends over at the Ecotality Life blog. You can find all my posts there at this link, including this post looking at some fascinating research that may create...

Net Impact 2007, October 21, 2007
There's an interesting conference coming up Nov. 1-3 at Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management at which some 1,500 MBA students and professionals will discuss how to use business to create a more "sustainable" - that is, environmentally friendly -...

Enviroblogging, October 17, 2007
My latest at Ecotality Life today: Getting oil from algae and electricity from cows, planting trees by purchasing a boombox - and revolutionizing the third world with a $5 wind-power generator. Four news dispatches from the intersection of environmental issues...

Greenovation, October 16, 2007
Among my recent posts at Ecotality Life: Why the corporate "green" push may survive an economic slowdown, and why Europe lags the U.S. in green-tech venture capital investing. Plus these headlines: Sprint Runs Toward Alt-Energy for Cell Network Pushing LEDs...

Flying Solar, October 6, 2007
Denver International Airport will soon be getting half of its electricity from a solar array - and it isn't costing the taxpayers a dime up front. With Nashville International Airport in the midst of a $35 million renovation, I wondered...

NYT Attacks Ethanol, Google Pushes Pedal Power, October 2, 2007
I'm continuing to blog for Ecotality Life, an interesting new blog about "green" gadgets and "green" investing sponsored by Ecotality LLC of Scottsdale, Arizona. Today and yesterday my posts include a look at the New York Times' recent attacks on...

Eco News, September 19, 2007
At the Ecotality Life blog today: A look at "green" investing. Also: Sugar-powered batteries? Plus, a couple of posts about light bulbs....

Eco-blogging, September 13, 2007
At the new Ecotality Life: Carpooling via Facebook, plus eco-friendlier skateboards, the high potential of solar steam, and eco-tourism in the land of Muammar Qaddafi. Plus one I didn't write on a possible new technology for producing virtually unlimited amounts...

First, They Gave Up Their WMDs..., September 11, 2007
As I mentioned recently, the Ecotality blog is now Ecotality Life, and has a new URL - www.ecotality.com/life - and a new focus exemplified by its new slogan: "EcoDevelopments You Can Use and Invest In." The focus is shifting away...

Ecotality Blog To Be Revamped, September 5, 2007
The Ecotality blog where I have been writing about environmental-related news for the past several months is being shelved, and a new Ecotality Life, with a somewhat different focus, will be rolling out soon. Not sure if I'll be writing...

Car Talk, August 30, 2007
Peugeot has unveiled ">a diesel-electric hybrid that gets 69mpg. Unfortunately, it won't be sold in the U.S. Because Peugeot doesn't sell cars in the U.S. and hasn't since 1992. But you can get a 2008 Jetta "Clean Diesel" model, and...

Global Warming Got the Rest of 'Em, I Guess, August 28, 2007
It started out as a group blog but right now, for the time being, I'm the only regular contributor to the Ecotality blog. Which is rather ironic,if you ask me....

Ethanol is Bad For You, August 20, 2007
At the Ecotality blog today: Ethanol is Bad for You. Also, The Oil Iditarod, and Not-So-Green Nashville....

Oops!, August 9, 2007
NASA admits the data showing 1998 was "the warmest year on record" is wrong. Oh, and the accuracy of the network of temperature sensors upon which such calculations are based can not be validated. Details at the Ecotality blog....

Greener Gore, August 4, 2007
Criticism of Al Gore's energy-hogging mansion and carbon-spewing lifestyle that seemed so at odds with Mr. Inconvenient Truth's anti-global warming crusade seems to have spurred the former Vice President into some serious greening of his Nashville estate. And we're not...

TVA Considers Nuking Global Warming, July 27, 2007
The Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing a major effort to combat global warming. Read all about it - and why it is necessary - at the Ecotality blog today. Here's the link....

Betting on the Wrong Horse?, July 16, 2007
Is Tennessee about to bet $70 million of the taxpayers' money on the wrong horse? While the state of Tennessee is preparing to spend some $70 million in taxpayers' money subsidizing an effort to develop an ethanol industry based on...

Don't Ban Incandescent Light Bulbs!, May 22, 2007
The growing movement around the world to ban incandescent lightbulbs in order to force a mass switch to compact flourescent bulbs as a way to fight global warming is misguided policy-making for a number of health, environmental and economic reasons....

GAO Asked to Probe "Carbon Offsets", May 21, 2007
Two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate the growing business of selling "carbon offsets," those modern-day environmental "indulgences" that let individuals and organizations claim to be "carbon neutral" in terms of their carbon dioxide emissions....

Shop Your Way to a Cleaner Planet, April 27, 2007
Over at Ecotality today: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: Shop at Kohl's....

Actually Factually Factual Facts, April 25, 2007
Over at Ecotality today, I tweak the true-believer treehuggers a bit with a handful of posts including Industrialization = Cleanliness, which explores why most of the 25 cleanest cities in the world are located in wealthy and industrialized democracies. Also,...

TVA: Green Power Demand Rising, April 24, 2007
Tennessee Valley Authority spokesman Gilbert Francis says, "The AP story that shows TVA’s green power use going down is absolutely wrong." After speaking with Francis by phone, I have thoroughly re-written this post from yesterday to reflect accurate information. I...

How Green is My Tennessee Valley Authority?, April 23, 2007
The Tennessee Valley Authority, the big government-owned utility that provides electricity to 158 retail power distributors across a large swath of the southeastern United States, isn't selling as much "green" power as it has the capacity to produce. UPDATE: I...

Is Solar Worth It?, April 16, 2007
The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle had stories this weekend that presented opposite views of the economics of residential solar power. While the NYT says solar power "makes no economic sense" for the average homeowner, the San...

A Gorgy of Hate, April 5, 2007
Nationally syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock has written an article about the thousands of threatening and abusive calls and emails which the Tennessee Center for Policy Research after the Nashville think tank generated a global media storm by exposing Al Gore's...

Yet Another Inconvenient Truth, April 4, 2007
The company from which Al Gore gets those "carbon offsets" to offset his huge carbon-emissions stemming from the global warming hypester's energy-hogging, jet-setting lifestyle actually spends less than a quarter of its revenue on projects that offset carbon emissions, according...

Sweet! Energy Techno Breakthroughs, March 27, 2007
My newest posts over at the Ecotality blog include this one that looks at Ecotality's core technology itself, a device that creates hydrogen-on-demand for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. It potentially solves many of the problems that otherwise might prevent hydrogen fuel-cell...

The Low Cost of Doing Nothing, March 24, 2007
Over at the Ecotality blog today: Carbon offsets as cheap political symbolism, and as cheap airline PR. Plus, the world's most famous user of carbon offsets to mask the hypocrisy of his energy-hogging, atmosphere-polluting lifestyle has started a blog....

A Brief Environmental Progress Report, March 23, 2007
Over at the Ecotality blog today: Wind-powered economic development and solar-powered universities. Plus: A brief back-of-the-napkin essay on regarding environmental oversimplification, and a look back at why one of Nashville's leading environmentalists once fought a proposal that would have recycled...

The Wheels On the Bus Go 'Round and 'Round, March 22, 2007
Over at the Ecotality blog today: The Wheels on the (hydrogen-powered) Bus Go 'Round and 'Round. Plus: Why American Industry now begs for federal caps on C02 emissions....

Ranchers, Diplomats and Hippies, March 20, 2007
Lots of new posts over at the Ecotality blog today involving hippies, ranchers, ethanol, solar power, baseball and our embassy in Bulgaria. Al Gore even gets a mention. So does presidential candidate John Edwards, who claims his mammoth mansion -...

Questioning Inconvenient Truths, March 19, 2007
Two new posts at the Ecotality blog today: Questioning Carbon Offsets explores the inconvenient truth about that trendy way that wealthy folks can pretend to be "green." And, speaking of inconvenient truths, the New York Times, of all papers, is...

Al Gore, Meet Mike Strizki, March 15, 2007
Al Gore could learn a thing or two from Mike Strizki about living one's inconvenient truth. I've got that story and other clean-tech bloggage over at the Ecotality blog, where I write about environmental news, trends and technology on behalf...

Fly the Carbon Neutral Skies, March 8, 2007
The Ecotality blog, where I write about environmental news, trends and technology, is temporarily a mess as it is transitioning to a great new design with all sorts of new features - but right now all the archives are...

Hypocrites and Heretics, February 28, 2007
Over at the Ecotality blog today: Why the Gore story matters. Also, a look at the very interesting Stewart Brand, one of the original founders of the modern environmental movement who now urges more use of nuclear power....

Al Gore's Other Inconvenient Truth, February 27, 2007
Five western states have signed an agreement to reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions. Also, the Bush administration's energy proposals don't put a high priority on hydrogen energy technology R&D, but some money is going to the sector, with promising results. Plus:...

Power to the People, February 26, 2007
New at the Ecotality blog today: Power to the people from the ocean breezes, and the West Texas plains. Plus: privaty equity firms say green can be good business....

Still No Flying Cars, February 24, 2007
I'm writing about cool green technology like solar-powered cellphones and $2 million hydrogen cars over at the Ecotality blog today. Also: Mitt Romney's views on alternative energy policy, and the military's role in alternative energy technology development. And a hydrogen...

West Texas Winds, February 22, 2007
When I lived out in West Texas in the late 1980s I didn't think of the near-constant wind as a resource. I thought of it as a nuisance that made my neck hurt, peppered my face with grit and sometimes...

Wind, Waves and Hot Rocks, February 21, 2007
My latest posts over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc., include wave power, wind power and questioning ethanol. Also, Austin is the nation's top city for "cleantech" development....

Symbolism, Saab and Solar, February 20, 2007
My latest posts over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc., include: A look at Hybrids, HOV Lanes and Symbolic Gestures Also, Colleges Pledge to Cut Carbon Emissions, a "Saab...

Hot Air, Hot Feet, February 12, 2007
Here's my latest over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: More on the Tennessee Biofuels Initiative, why the global warming debate doesn't really matter, plus a look at the...

Mythbusters and Gift Horses, February 8, 2007
Here's my latest over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: Mythbusting Ethanol, a new breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cell technology, a capital investment surge in the alt-energy sector, and...

Ethanol Push Fuels Higher Food Prices, January 31, 2007
Here's my latest over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: The ethanol pugsh is driving up food prices around the world - and ethanol production itself may be a...

Warming Up to Global Warming, January 30, 2007
Here's my latest over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: sometimes global warming is good, while sometimes ethanol is bad. And there still is no silver bullet. Today's shilling...

Priorities, January 29, 2007
Here's my latest over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: Which should come first in alt-energy policy: energy independence or environmental concerns?. I argue that it's energy independence -...

Reality Check Please, January 25, 2007
New today over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: A State of the Union reality check on cutting gasoline usage. Also: a look green investing. And, close to home,...

The High Price of Cheap Gas, January 22, 2007
New today over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: the high price of cheap gas. Plus: an inconvenient joke....

One Two Punch, January 19, 2007
New today over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: The "CLEAN Energy Act" the House just passed would make America more dependent on foreign oil, not less. Also, American...

Detroit Chases Green as BP Sucks Wind, January 15, 2007
New today over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: American automakers drive for the green, but its fuel prices, not environmental concern, that's causing American car buyers to look...

Race Drivers Start Your Hydrogen Fuel Cells, January 12, 2007
New today over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: Meshing sports and technology with a new Hydrogen Electric Racing Federation that hopes to race at the famed Indy track...

Fuel of the Future, January 9, 2007
New today over at the Ecotality blog, where I'm writing daily about alternative energy news and issues for Ecotality Inc: hydrogen-powered forklifts, electric and hydrogen concept cars, and states focus their economic development efforts on the much-anticipated hydrogen fuel cell...

Cow Patty Power!, January 8, 2007
I'm blogging daily about alternative energy news and issues for Phoenix-based Ecotality Inc - click the logo to go to the multi-author blog. My latest posts look at Pennsylvania's subsidizing of alternative-energy - Pennsylvania is one of several states that...

Fish Bones and Cooking Oil, January 5, 2007
I'm blogging daily about alternative energy news and issues for Phoenix-based Ecotality Inc - click the logo to go to the multi-author blog. My latest posts include a look at powering cars with used cooking oil. Also, fish bones are...

Sun and Spin, January 4, 2007
I'm blogging daily about alternative energy news and issues for Phoenix-based Ecotality Inc - click the logo to go to the multi-author blog. My latest posts include a look at allegations that ExxonMobil is funding "disinformation" on global warming -...

Chicken Fat, Congressional Pork and More, January 3, 2007
I'm blogging daily about alternative energy news and issues for Phoenix-based Ecotality Inc - click the logo to go to the multi-author blog. My latest posts include a look at developments in energy policy at the state level in Kansas,...

Energy, Politics and Pond Scum, December 30, 2006
I'm blogging daily about alternative energy news and issues for Phoenix-based Ecotality Inc, for at least the next six months - click the logo to go to the multi-author blog. My latest posts include a look at developments in energy...

Power Up, December 27, 2006
I'm blogging daily about alternative energy news and issues for Phoenix-based Ecotality Inc., for at least the next six months - click the logo to go to the multi-author blog. My latest posts include a look at developments in energy...