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Did Douglas Adams Explain The Roots Of Climate Change Denial & Cleantech Backlash?

5 years ago Barry A.F. 0 Comments

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

—Douglas Adams

California Utilities Make Progress on 20% by 2010

14 years ago susan 2 Comments

California’s utilities generated 15.4% of their energy from renewables in 2009, up from 13% in 2008, according to the CPUC quarterly report. If demand had remained constant, the percentage would have been 18%, but some small hydro decreases, increases in consumer demand, and the end of some renewable contracts cut … [continued]