1. The “Green Dream Team?”
This is not meant to be political. However, in the absence of any leadership at the federal level over the last eight years, it is refreshing to see that we may be assembling a team ready to address the complexities of market based solutions to climate change.
Fortunately, the mantra of “drill baby drill” has given way to a focus on a commitment to renewables and a cap-and-trade program for carbon. In the past few days the Obama team has nominated key staff who, as tagged by the League of Conservation Voters, is the “Green Dream Team.” This team is committed to tackling climate change and energy innovation. Carol Browner is back as the White House advisor to coordinate energy and environmental policy (go figure, coordination!), Steven Chu to run the Department of Energy (a physicist who shared a Nobel Prize in 1997 and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lisa Jackson to be the head of the USEPA (who lead the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and Nancy Sutley to lead the White House Council on Environmental Policy.
Nominees who have relevant experience and innovative ideas on how to build a forward-thinking energy and climate policy! At the least we can be hopeful that we will move towards greater energy security and a low carbon future with this team.
2. T. Boone Pickens + Al Gore = Strange Bedfellows
Even I couldn’t have dreamed this one up.
Politically at opposite ends of the spectrum but whom both get the dire need for a strategic and secure U.S. energy policy. The Pikens Plan emerged as a strong voice for wind power and the use of natural gas as a transitional transportation fuel. The goal is to build wind energy facilities that will produce 20% of our energy needs and to use U.S. natural gas reserves, resulting in replacing approximately one of U.S. foreign oil imports within ten years.
Mr. Gore is advocating producing 100% of U.S. electricity from zero-emission sources on the We Campaign’s website,www.wecansolveit.org.
For the first time we are having a very public debate on U.S. energy policy and climate change coming from usual and unusual voices.
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December 29th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Thank you for this post. Renewable energy is a term used to describe energy that is derived from resources, like the sun and the wind resources that are continually available to some degree or other all over the world. We never run out of them. And their use or capture does not inflict any material damage on the environment, but it seems it is affecting on the environment either direct or indirectly. We are the group working on Global Warming and Green World and spreading the benefits of this to many of them with the help of Internet and many sites… Recently i liked JustMeans.com, nice platform to share and debate on Green and Corporate Social Responsibility. Justmeans is where individuals can talk to organizations about their social and environmental initiatives and stay updated on CSR news and jobs. Please do spread the word and save the world.