Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy..

As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of ….

We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters..

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate..

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming..

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since..

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in po….

In the months after George W. Bush's reelection, a lot of liberals and environmentalists were ready to take a hard look at their political agenda, th….

Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy….

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Cent….

Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant….

It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies for storage ….

We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new ….

All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can make the k….

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences..