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Computers and Appliances: Today’s Home-Based Energy Hogs

President Carter's fireside chat, Feb. 1977
by Bill Chameides
Mar 12, 2013

The government is touting the fact that “heating and cooling” now comprise less than half of our residential energy usage. But that’s only half the story.

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Climate Change Mitigation: Caught Between a Wedge and a Hard Place

The computer circa late 1960s. A lot has happened in computer technology since then. Could the next 50 years bring similar radical changes to the world’s energy infrastructure? (Photograph by cliff1066â„¢/Flickr)
by Bill Chameides
Jan 15, 2013

New study concludes that addressing climate change will require “fundamental and disruptive transformation of the global energy system.”

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Obama’s energy plan by the numbers

What does the Obama administration plan for our energy future? To find out, we’ll let the words tell the story. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
by Bill Chameides
Sep 5, 2012

How do Obama’s words on energy compare to Team Romney’s?

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The Romney-Ryan energy plan by the numbers

Mitt Romney, the recently official GOP presidential nominee, and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), have put out an energy policy document. We take a look. (monkeyz_uncle/Wiki Commons)
by Bill Chameides
Aug 29, 2012

Oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, efficiency. Which are the Republican hopefuls’ priorities? This week, it’s convention time for the [...]

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Summer Catch-Up on the Environment

postvacay
by Bill Chameides
Aug 22, 2012

Here’s some of the environmental news that was in play while I was away.

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Environmentalists Take Two on the Chin?

Here are two items for our imperfect world series. CFLs are taken down a notch, and genetically engineered cotton gets a thumbs up. (© Justin Smith / Wikimedia Commons, CC-By-SA-3.0 | USDA.gov)
by Bill Chameides
Jul 26, 2012

Two new studies set back two hobby horses for many of the green persuasion.

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Talking Green in Aspen

"Living with the New Normal" at the Aspen Environment Forum with (from L to R) National Geographic's Rob Kunzig, Kevin Trenberth (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Bill Chameides, Interior's David Hayes, Oberlin's David Orr.
by Bill Chameides
Jun 27, 2012

Desolation Row or New Morning? What does the future hold?

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Energy Efficiency: Gaining Traction or Spinning Its Wheels?

Is this the past, present and very near future of light bulbs? America’s lights are part of energy-efficient measures that have received broad support over decades from all political corners … until recently. (Smithsonian Institution, KMJ/Wiki Commons)
by Bill Chameides
May 29, 2012

Congress, businesses, and consumers show an appetite for the proverbial low-hanging fruit.

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Is There a Clean Energy Standard in Our Future?

Renewable energy sources (from L to R): rooftop solar, anaerobic digester/biogas storage, water-based turbines, wind turbines. (Credit: NREL/Mercury Solar Solutions, California Polytechnic State University, Ocean Renewable Power Company, John De La Rosa)
by Bill Chameides
May 17, 2012

Americans want it, but how much will it cost?

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Obama ‘Takes Stand,’ Rules Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

by Bill Chameides
Jan 20, 2012

Separating the substance from the rhetoric and symbolism.

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