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Category: Energy Efficiency

  • ‘Sleeper’ items on Tuesday Council Agenda: Before the Pave, the Pipe

    Below is an excellent little analysis of a couple of items destined to be rubber stamped by our paving council this evening. This comes from a small local listserv*: On just about every City Council Agenda you’ll find ‘sleeper’ items — seemingly innocuous — but which have huge implications in future. Twenty-or forty-years from now,…

  • MGE: The Rustbelt Mindset

    Word has it that Madison Gas & Electric was the lead lobbyist in scuttling the state’s green energy plan during the state’s recent budget deliberations. One major component of the plan: 25% of state’s total energy was to come from renewables. It also included a massive conservation push. There were significant provisions for reeling in…

  • Green Collar Job Symposium, Saturday May 1 — Tomorrow

    Green Collar Job Symposium, Saturday May 1, Madison Labor Temple, 1602 South Park Street, 9:30 – 5:30.

  • Americans Ditching Deathmobiles in Droves

    Americans scrapped more cars than they bought over the past 15 years — Wooooooh-Hooooo!!!!!

  • Pay No Attention to the Trainwreck on the Left

    Reluctantly, very reluctantly, and after much pleading from the organizers, I agreed to show up to a meeting entitled, “What’s Up With The Left in Madison.” My reluctance was based in my long involvement with Progressive Dane from its inception (’93?) until a couple of years ago. For all of those years I tried to…

  • The Sustainability Mirage: A NYT Update

    Back in January I had an article published entitled “Madison’s Sustainability Mirage,” thesis of which was, all the groovey-green gizmos in the world won’t make a hill-of-beans difference as long as we keep siting “green buildings” in car-mandatory places. Looks like the smart gate-keepers at the NYT just figured it out, too.

  • The Next Messianic Miracle Fuel

    Ok, so lithium is not a fuel, it is a material component for storing fuel– in this case, electricity. Lithium-ion batteries are the latest “green” holy grail. Eco-mirage of the hip. Messianic miracle material for the eco-techie. Any good (paid) environmentalist tell you that if only we had enough hybrids on the road, we would…

  • Q: What’s the Greatest Threat to the Planet?

    A: http://www.youtube.com/user/1standMain#p/u/1/VGJt_YXIoJI …. a fun & lighthearted take on a serious topic thanks to our friends over at the Congress for New Urbanism. Robbie Webber exasperatedly declared that they captured her entire 50 minute class talk on the Environment & Urbanism in 3 minutes! D’Oh!

  • Efficiency Pays, Renewables Cost

    McKinsey report states the obvious: Energy efficiency is significantly more cost-effective than renewables in lowering carbon spew.

  • Pick Up an Isthmus! Then read more about Jevons Paradox here….

    Moving toward a resilient, sustainable, green world will require a thoroughgoing ethic of conservation; emphasis on ethic.

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