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Apeakalypse Now

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The culture shock I felt upon my return from Thailand was so severe I was in a stupor for a month not knowing how to direct my life. I did not feel safe sitting in a house with a mortgage. I did not feel safe in America itself. I saw a nation of people carrying massive amounts of credit card debt and few practical skills. They had less of a safety net than a Thai farmer. … Just as the tide going out reveals an awesome array of flora and fauna living in hidden tide pools, so too did the economic crisis reveal an amazing array of creatures I had no idea existed.

United States – Dec 12

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Energy secretary pick argues for new fuel sources
A Past President’s Advice to Obama: Act With Haste
Obama starts filling energy team
Hurdles, opportunities for ‘green’ stimulus
Browner to get the nod as Obama’s top energy and climate adviser
Christine Todd Whitman talks about greening the GOP and running the EPA

Museletter 200: Memo to the President-elect on Energy Realism and the Green New Deal

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Our continued national dependence on fossil fuels is creating a crippling vulnerability to both long-term fuel scarcity and catastrophic climate change.

The current economic crisis requires substantial national policy shifts and enormous new government injections of capital into the economy. This provides an opportunity for a project whose scope would otherwise be inconceivable: a large-scale, coordinated energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.