Local Energy News Podcast
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Local Energy News Podcast
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Van Jones Promotes Smart Grid, but is it Really Smart?
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If ever you need to push a progressive agenda, you’d do well to have V...
Creating Local Energy Markets
This commentary aired October 1, 2008 on KUNM.
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One of the greatest myths of our time is tha...
Drilling Offshore in the Age of Hurricanes
This commentary aired on KUNM on September 2, 2008
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There’s nothing quite like a hurricane bearing down o...
Telling the Truth About Oil, Wind, and Water
With the news these days dominated by Michael Phelps winning Olympic gold medals, John Edwards confessing to marital affairs, and Paris Hilton decidin...
By Protecting Utilities, We Make Communities Vulnerable
“Revenue Decoupling” programs are the latest in a long series of egregious schemes designed to protect the electric-utility industry. The real name fo...
Good Energy Policy Begins With Asking Good Questions
The Cities for Climate Protection
Campaign, The 2030 Challenge, The Apollo Alliance, The Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement...there are so ma...
Nationalize the Grid, and Empower Local Companies to Build Solar
Ten years ago, in 1998, New Mexico’s largest investor-owned utility, PNM, solicited bids to build a 5 megawatt solar electric power plant. Had the pro...
Imagine a Government Promoting Local Self-Reliance in Energy
Even the presidential candidates, given a national stage every day to present a new platform on energy, have not taken the opportunity to put forth id...
Invest Two-Trillion a Year in Dirty Energy? That's Insane!
Doing the same thing over and over again, and each time expecting to get a different result, has frequently been used to define the word “insanity”. I...
The Energy Revolution: Retaking Control with Local Food and Fuel
The greatest mistake of industrializing our food and energy systems was that it put our fate in the hands of a few giant corporations. It worked for a...