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Still Worth It On mercury in CFLs	Umbra Fisk	16 Jul 2007	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, For the past 10 years or so I have been patiently and methodically replacing the incandescent light bulbs in my house with the more efficient compact fluorescent ones. Even though they cost more than incandescents, I have been confident that their lower energy requirements and longer life span more than made up for the increased cost. Thus I was greatly dismayed the other day when I went to our local transfer station and ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, green products, toxics (all these topics)

The loan arranger Consumers are stingy about buying new energy-efficient appliances	Clark Williams-Derry	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
We've been meaning to replace our furnace -- an old oil heater that was converted to gas back in the '70s -- for years. It's big, it's ugly, and worst of all, it's inefficient. So we pay much more for heat than we'd like, even in Seattle's relatively mild winters. But new furnaces don't come cheap. In fact, some back-of-the envelope calculations a few years back convinced me that it could take nearly a decade before the savings on our gas bills paid for the ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Dingell calls our bluff He proposes a carbon tax, assuming it will fail	David Roberts	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Last Sunday, Rep. John Dingell appeared on the C-SPAN show Newsmakers for a 30-min. interview (transcript here; video accessible via the website), and caused an enormous ruckus with this: SWAIN: Mr. Chairman, I want to go back to your statement that the American people want action [on climate change]. Does that also correlate with the American people being willing to pay higher prices, because of energy legislation? DINGELL: I sincerely doubt that the American p ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Sustainability gets a warmer embrace from U.S. companies Mindy S. Lubber of CERES looks at how far we've come and what the future might hold	Grist	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the GreenMoney Journal asked leaders in the realms of green business and socially responsible investing to forecast 15 years into the future. How green will our economy be in 2022? GreenMoney's anniversary issue features responses from Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments, Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm, futurist Hazel Henderson, and others. Mindy Lubber. Here, reprinted with permission, is a view from Mindy S. Lubbe ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, United States (all these topics)

Leaving Dustbusters in the Dust High-tech gadgets will overtake appliances as energy-suckers, says report		06 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Leaving Dustbusters in the Dust High-tech gadgets will overtake appliances as energy-suckers, says report Primed to overtake kitchen appliances and lighting as the biggest drain on domestic power, high-tech gadgets -- we're talkin' to you, iPhone -- will use nearly half an average household's energy by 2020, according to U.K. nonprofit Energy Saving Trust. In a report cleverly titled &quo ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, news (all these topics)

Attention toddler shoppers A short video clip introducing CFLs to kids	Christina Larson	03 Jul 2007	Gristmill
You can watch Disney and the Department of Energy's co-produced energy-efficiency PSA here. It's half an ad for Ratatouille, half a push for compact fluorescent lightbulbs. Maybe the marketing theory is, 'Hook 'em while they're young.' Works for soft drinks and breakfast cereals. Perhaps it will work for Energy Star, too.
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, parenting (all these topics)

Big oil, stopped clocks, energy efficiency An oil exec gets the diagnosis right	David Roberts	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill
One hesitates to agree with the CEO of a major oil company, but ... I can't really figure where Jeroen van der Veer, head of Royal Dutch Shell, is wrong in all this. He says: Energy demand is growing, and is likely to double by 2050. Oil and gas are going to become more difficult to reach. Coal will kill us. Even optimistic estimates for renewables -- say, growing from 1% to 30% in the world energy balance -- still leaves a hell of a lot of fossil fuels ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, energy efficiency, oil (all these topics)

The power of feedback Getting rid of the remnants of the sell-more-power utility model	JMG	23 Jun 2007	Gristmill
This is an important article on one of the best, simplest, and fastest ways to reduce home electric usage: make it visible.
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Study: No fuel economy and safety trade-off We can have both	Joseph Romm	23 Jun 2007	Gristmill
A new study entitled 'Sipping Fuel and Saving Lives: Increasing Fuel Economy without Sacrificing Safety' notes: The public, automakers, and policymakers have long worried about trade-offs between increased fuel economy in motor vehicles and reduced safety. The conclusion of a broad group of experts on safety and fuel economy in the auto sector is that no trade-off is required. There are a wide variety of technologies and approaches available to advance vehicle fuel ec ...
Topics: cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency (all these topics)

Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase		22 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase First, the good news: the U.S. Senate has passed an energy bill containing the first significant fuel-economy increase in years. The bill requires cars and light trucks to get an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, up from the current 22.2 mpg for l ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, Harry Reid, legislation, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Cleaning house The House of Reps leads the way to a greener capitol	Kate Sheppard	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The Hill's alive with the sound of greening. Or at least, it should be, as soon as our representatives start following through with their 'Green the Capitol' initiative, the final report on which was released yesterday in Washington, D.C. The report is the result of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's call for an energy audit of the Capitol complex four months ago, right after she first assumed her new post. Yesterday's report presents the findings of the audi ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives, Washington DC (all these topics)

Kill the vampires! There oughta be a law: Off means off	JMG	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Here's why you need to put all your electronics on power strips/surge protectors; so you can actually turn them off and save the massive amounts of energy these vampires suck out of the system (and your wallet). We need a law that says by 2009 no new electronic devices can be sold without a hard off setting that actually turns the device entirely off (i.e., no current drain whatsoever). It's not hard -- it's how everything used to work.
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Threat of customer revolt is what is hurting plans for nukes The days when they would take whatever you served up are gone	JMG	11 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Why does Amory Lovins say that the market is deciding against nukes?One of the things that not many people seem to realize is that we had just enough deregulation in this country to scare the pants off investors who formerly treated utilities as stocks you could safely put in widows' and orphans' portfolios. Even with the largess being showered on nukes in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EP Act 2005), there hasn't been quite the stampede to license new nukes that many hoped fo ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, nuclear power (all these topics)

Adventures in the Smart Grid no. 1 Why the Smart Grid is important	Patrick Mazza	10 Jun 2007	Gristmill
It's the world's largest machine -- the interconnected network of power plants, transmission towers, substations, poles, and wires that make up the power grid. When you flip the switch you expect the juice to flow and don't have much reason to think about it, except during the occasional blackout. Power engineers and energy wonks might get passionate about the grid, but for most people it's just a background fact of life. It's time to bring the grid into the for ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy (all these topics)

Well, Uh, At Least No One Got Zero? California, Vermont, Connecticut top ranking of energy-efficient states		06 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Well, Uh, At Least No One Got Zero? California, Vermont, Connecticut top ranking of energy-efficient states Less than a week after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) declared at an economic summit in Canada that clean energy is becoming the basis for "a new gold rush," his all-star state has topped an energy-efficiency ranking issued by the American Council for an Energy ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, energy efficiency, news (all these topics)

China's unveils new climate change plan Still a Great Wall to progress	Maywa Montenegro	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
On the heels of Bush's bluster of the week, China today released its first comprehensive plan for climate change. But as the NY Times reports, it too isn't much to sing about. Said Ma Kai, head of China's National Development and Reform Commission: Our general stance is that China will not commit to any quantified emissions reduction targets, but that does not mean we will not assume responsibilities in responding to climate change. Thus, the plan calls for i ...
Topics: China, climate, energy, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Hot air And spy planes	Adam Browning	01 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Identifying energy-saving opportunities is one thing -- and a good thing -- but just think of the potential for evaluating politicians ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Honey, pack up, we're moving to ... Minnesota! Who knew the stoic people of Minnesota were so advanced?	JMG	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Wow, we hear about California this and California that, occasionally some Vermont or Oregon thrown in, once in awhile someone will know that Texas is a wind capitol. But I can't remember anyone ever mentioning that, when it comes to a serious program to address global heating, Minnesota rocks! Just for comparison, note how weak and pallid Oregon's renewable energy standard (which only applies to electricity, not energy) is compared to Minnesota's comprehensive greenhouse g ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, legislation, Minnesota, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

O Canada! Imagine a politician leveling with citizens about something	JMG	30 May 2007	Gristmill
This is a great column from a former Winnipeg mayor: 'Higher oil prices or carbon tax: Take your pick.' Imagine if all politicians were as frank. Why, we might even have the kind of discourse Al Gore mourns losing in The Assault on Reason.
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, climate, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil (all these topics)

Energy efficiency vs. liquefied coal: Which do you think Congress is subsidizing? Hint: We're talking about Congress here	David Roberts	29 May 2007	Gristmill
Those of you with strong stomachs will want to marvel at the contrast between two New York Times stories out today. Marvel ... and tear your fracking hair out. First, there's this story on energy efficiency. It makes the simple and familiar point that the cheapest, fastest source of energy is negawatts -- not using the energy in the first place. In particular, efficiency is cheaper than coal: 'When we started talking about this in 1990s in terms of energy efficien ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, Congress, energy, energy efficiency, politics (all these topics)

A new 'Stop the Draft' campaign! There's a connection between energy waste and our military adventurousness, so let's stop the draft	JMG	29 May 2007	Gristmill
This is what every utility in America should be required to provide in return for that monthly service charge that makes people who conserve energy pay more per unit of juice than people who waste it.
Topics: energy, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Good stuff at WC	David Roberts	26 May 2007	Gristmill
Two good posts on Worldchanging I've been meaning to call out: Jeremy Faludi makes the important point that control technologies are just as important as efficiency technologies. Control technologies allow us to control energy systems in a more fine-grained way, using only what we need -- think occupancy sensors for lighting or continuously variable transmissions for cars. Make room for this in your conceptual toolbox. Alex Steffen, meanwhile, has an essay grapplin ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, environmental movement (all these topics)

Taxes: bad because they produce revenue Conservative critique of the carbon tax	David Roberts	24 May 2007	Gristmill
This story contains two things: Evidence that when it comes to climate and energy policy, mainstream Democratic politicians (+ John McCain) are more or less in consensus: yes on "the need to enhance energy efficiency, introduce a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, and incentivize clean energy technology,' no to a carbon tax. The worst argument against a carbon tax ever:'A tax won't work,' said John Raidt, adviser to McCain. 'It will just raise mo ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, energy efficiency, politics (all these topics)

Noah's ark rebuilt A not-so-subtle call for climate change attention	Maywa Montenegro	23 May 2007	Gristmill
At the base of snow-capped Mount Ararat, where the bible says Noah's ark came to rest after 40 days of flooding, environmentalist volunteers are constructing a miniature version of the famed zoological craft. Its completion is being timed to coincide with next month's G8 summit in Germany, where climate change will be a hot issue. Last week, for instance, scientists from all across Africa plus Brazil, India, China, Mexico, and South Africa presented joint statement ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, G8, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Efficiency and market failure A new report says regulations are needed	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill
A while back I mentioned a McKinsey Global Institute report showing that efficiency is the fastest, cheapest way to cut global GHG emissions. Now McKinsey's got a new report out, making a heretical claim: even though homeowners could vastly improve energy efficiency and save tons of money over the long term with current technologies, there won't be widespread adoption of those technologies without market intervention -- i.e., stronger regulations. Whatever will the ma ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, energy efficiency, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

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