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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Fortune Brainstorm Green An interview with Vinod Khosla	David Roberts	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Adam Lashinsky interviews Vinod Khosla. I liveblog. VK's four major investment areas: oil, coal, efficiency, and materials. AL: India finance minister called biofuels a crime against humanity. What up? VK: Food-based ethanol isn't the big driver of food prices. Regardless, biofuels don't have to be food-based. AL: But you've invested in food-based ethanol. VK: Only one, Cilian (sp?), to see if we could get a big reduction. But cellulosic has moved so quickly, ...
Topics: coal, energy, ethanol, interview (all these topics)

Boogie Woogie Google Boy An interview with Google's green energy czar, Bill Weihl	Amanda Griscom Little	07 Feb 2008	Grist Feature
The phrase "to Google" has become synonymous with "to search." But soon it may connote something altogether different: "to green." That is, if the internet titan can successfully pull off its latest world-changing endeavor. Bill Weihl. In late 2007, the dot-com giant announced its intention to make renewable energy cheaper than coal. The RE<C pro ...
Topics: business, carbon neutral, carbon offsets, coal, energy, energy efficiency, greening biz operations, greenish companies, interview, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Charlie Crist Superstar An interview with Florida's governor, a Republican climate crusader	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
Charlie Crist. Photo:Steven Murphy/WireImage Meet Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a surprising blend of Grand Ol' Party and bleeding-heart greenie. As a Republican, he defends the Bush administration's environmental record, but he also counts among his personal heroes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who wrote an entire book condemning Bush as "America's worst environmental pre ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, Florida, interview, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Clarion Caller An interview with renowned climate scientist James Hansen	Kate Sheppard	15 May 2007	Main Dish
James Hansen. Photo: nasa.gov James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, believes scientists have an obligation to speak out when their findings have important implications for the public -- and he certainly put that belief into practice last year when he told The New York Times that the Bush administration was trying to muzzle his calls for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Hansen has been ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, coal, energy, international politics, interview, IPCC, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

Her Side of the Mountain Mary Anne Hitt, director of Appalachian Voices, answers readers' questions		30 Mar 2007	InterActivist
What is Appalachian Voices doing to promote renewable energy and conservation to get the U.S. off its fossil-fuel addiction? ��-- Kristen Sykes, Asbury, N.J. Mary Anne Hitt, Appalachian Voices. While stopping mountaintop-removal coal mining does not require transitioning away from the use of coal, a sensible plan for America's energy security and stability does. Not only is coal the ...
Topics: coal, energy, InterActivist, interview, mining (all these topics)

Hitting Back Mary Anne Hitt, director of Appalachian Voices, answers Grist's questions		26 Mar 2007	InterActivist
Mary Anne Hitt. What's your job title? I'm the executive director of Appalachian Voices. What does your organization do? We bring people together to solve the big environmental problems facing the central and southern Appalachian Mountains -- mountaintop-removal coal mining, air pollution, and the loss of our native forests. What are you working on at the moment? Photo: iLoveMountains.org We recent ...
Topics: coal, energy, InterActivist, interview, mining (all these topics)

The Revolution Will Be Solarized An interview with Travis Bradford, author of Solar Revolution	David Roberts	30 Nov 2006	Main Dish
Solar power has been the Next Big Thing for decades now, yet it remains a niche player in the energy world. The problem of intermittency is unsolved, up-front capital costs remain high, and surging demand for polysilicon, a key component of solar panels, has recently outstripped supply, stifling production. Travis Bradford. So when someone claims that within decades solar ...
Topics: biofuels, coal, energy, interview, natural gas, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

In Goodell Company An interview with Jeff Goodell, author of Big Coal	David Roberts	14 Jul 2006	Arts and Minds
In 2001, around the time Dick Cheney's secret-recipe energy plan made its debut, Jeff Goodell went to West Virginia to report on coal's rising fortunes. He'd been sent to do a story for The New York Times Magazine, but the material spilled over into a book, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, published this summer. It's a journey from the mines of Wyoming, across the plains b ...
Topics: coal, energy, interview (all these topics)

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