The recession is not preventing progress at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (ACUPCC) and their effort to get our country’s campuses climate neutral. The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment just passed 600 partner institutions. New signatory institutions include Colgate University of upstate New York and Caldwell Community College in my native state of North Carolina. Of course, signing the commitment is only step one of a decades-long process to achieve climate neutrality. More difficult steps remain for many signatories — from (more…)
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Higher Ed Going Climate Neutral
Monday, December 1st, 2008Presidential Goals for Wind & Solar
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Standing in line at 5:40am this morning was exciting. My wife and I were #s 10 and 11 in a line that grew toward 100 before the polls even opened at 6am. This election is historic in so many ways, not least of which is the high turnout taking place throughout the country.
In celebration of the history unfolding, I thought a perfect followup to yesterday’s presidential climate goals blog is an offering of deployment goals for renewables industry leaders, wind and solar. (more…)
OPEC estimates third quarter global demand growth was negative
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008OPEC just released its monthly oil report for October which included lower estimates for oil supply and demand for 2008 and 2009. Each year, global growth is projected to be positive: at almost 600,000 barrels per day (b/d) this year and 800,000 b/d in 2009. But there was one piece of information on page 25 of the report that raised my eyebrows and my hopes that we can keep oil prices and global greenhouse gas emissions in check: global oil demand in the third quarter of 2008 is reported to (more…)
Fossil energy prices continue rise, PTC not yet renewed, etc.
Monday, June 23rd, 2008US coal prices remained at record highs, with the only significant change this past week being the 8.8% increase to $118 per ton of Northern Appalachian coal. The oil market generally agreed with my sentiment yesterday that Saudi Arabia’s production announcement was mostly underwhelming, especially with the news of disrupted production in Nigeria. Oil gained over 1%, approaching its record in the upper $130s per barrel. And natural gas rose more than 1% to $13.23 per MBtu on anticipation that the emerging summer heat will prevent sufficient storage buildup for winter. China recently bought LNG supplies ~$13.90 per MBtu so if we want to attract more LNG tankers, it looks as though natural gas prices will need to climb another 5% or so. (more…)