This week Anne-Sophie Garrigou interviewed Al Maiorino, who has developed and managed multiple corporate public affairs campaigns in a variety of industries such as gaming, power plant/wind farm projects, or housing/residential projects. Here Al Maiorino talks about the role of social media in the development of renewable energy and how it influences people’s opinions.
A group of respected Republican leaders has proposed a new carbon tax idea and is headed to Washington to talk up their idea. Chances are their proposal will fall on deaf ears.
In yet another clue that the Trump energy plan is poised for loser status before it even gets off the ground, GE reports banner results for onshore wind.
The California Air Resources Board will be awarding up to $10 million in grants as part of a new school bus electrification and alternative fuels program known as The Rural School Bus Pilot Project, according to recent reports.
The most simplistic — but I think quite valid — way I can find of describing the differences is that there are 1) moderate “small government” Republicans, 2) extremist anti-government Republicans with shallow ideological perspective but who actually like social support systems and basic societal protection (just don’t realize this until it touches their lives), and 3) extremely extremist Republicans who think the whole system needs to be destroyed to some degree or another.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has found itself the target of significant criticism and vitriol over the last year, and a new bill introduced by Florida representative Matt Gaetz is looking to terminate the EPA altogether.
The solar energy workforce skyrocketed last year and the pace of growth is likely to continue as solar culture takes hold in the US, Trump or no Trump.
According to Greentech Media, SunShot has shattered its 2020 goal of reaching $1.00 per watt for utility-scale solar utility costs 3 years earlier.
If you’ve been paying close attention to US politics this past month, I probably don’t need to tell you what’s been going on. If you haven’t been, well, I can’t even find the word to describe it — it’s been a mix of insanity, corruption, hypocrisy, lies (aka “alternative facts”), irony, fictional history, idiocy, chaos, and looming disaster. In other words, just another month in the life of a con man from Queens.
Infrastructure that supports multi-modal travel makes it possible to live comfortably without a car. Vancouver is perhaps North America’s #1 city in this way. How unusual is the city of Vancouver? Well, for one thing, in the 1960s, Vancouver’s citizens refused to allow freeways in the city. That may seem like an obviously smart move today, but it was radical back then.
