With food prices doubling in the past decade, food security is back on the international agenda. But, given that we already produce more than twice the number of calories required by the […]

Assembly Bill (AB) 327, which California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law, sets an important precedent for the rest of the country. Surprisingly, that precedent does not have anything to do […]

The talk in Texas is about using its newly discovered shale gas abundance and its growing renewables capacity synergistically. But is natural gas a bridge to renewables or an environmental sin?   […]

Prices for crude and oil-based fuels, which have been declining in recent weeks, will continue to fall through the end of the year and will average lower in 2014, according to a […]

The oil industry has a long history of getting ahead of itself. If you believe some of the early prognostications about hydraulic fracturing, we now have as much as 100 years worth […]

New forecasts estimate solar PV will be cost-competitive with retail power prices in nearly every market by 2017; annual installations will double by 2020. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/graph-of-the-day-global-solar-pv-installs-to-double-hit-parity-by-2020-2020?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=graph-of-the-day-global-solar-pv-installs-to-double-hit-parity-by-2020-2020

We should think about a day when most of our energy sources for electricity and transportation are renewable sources rather than fossil fuels. Why? Because this is an achievable goal as R&D […]