Tag Archives: op-ed
Al Gore: Praying Obama Stays in the White House
In a sit-down interview with TakePart, former Vice President Al Gore says he “would fear for the future of our environmental policy” if Mitt Romney were elected President in November. Gore’s comments were taped in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 21, two days before the presumptive GOP presidential nominee unveiled his energy plan, which many [...]
Non-Residential PACE Rebounds in Los Angeles
It has been nearly a year since we last wrote about PACE, or Property Assessed Clean Energy, a means by which an assessment against a parcel’s property tax is used to pay for Clean Energy improvements, including solar. At that time, PACE for residential properties had been dealt a mortal blow by Fannie Mae and [...]
Shell Dissed by Greenpeace
For the past few days, people have been amazed by the marketing blunder committed by Shell when they launched their Arctic Ready website, looking for users to create their own ads with slogans to promote arctic drilling. The ad generator tool was, naturally, overtaken by environmental activists and general ‘internet trolls‘ alike to make Shell [...]
Climate Change Op-Ed on China Daily
Yesterday’s China Daily, featured an opinion editorial entitled “Tough climate policy would benefit China” that I co-wrote with China Greenspace’s Scott Moore. This op-ed should been read together with GLF’s previous post “Thinking Out of the Climate Box: Rethinking Monolithic Approaches to the ‘Common But Differentiated Responsibilities’ Impasse.”The basic message of the op-ed is that [...]