Grist’s David Roberts has posted an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Hermann Scheer, a leading advocate for renewable energy. (New Scientist conducted the interview, but requires a subscription to access the full interview.) Dr. Scheer is a physicist, member of the German parliament, and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.
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If you provide a product or service that is more environmentally responsible than those of more established competitors, how do you differentiate your offering? Part of the way you may do so is through education about the hidden costs of products or services that were created with little concern for the environment. When governments [...]

Direct causation is a common way of thinking about problems. It can work fine for simple dilemmas: “Listening to scary bedtime stories gives Sam nightmares.” Applying the same direct logic to complex problems, however, often falls flat. This mismatch is apparent in two attempts in the last few days to respond to rising [...]

Yesterday, I blogged about the presidential candidates’ responses to rising gas prices, focusing on how they reveal views of prosperity and the role of community. There was another interesting development in this debate yesterday, which A Siegel described on his blog.  He writes that many environmentalists have until recently viewed Clinton and Obama as having [...]

There has been much discussion of the presidential candidates’ proposals to address rising gas prices. I would like to examine a dimension of this debate that I haven’t yet seen explored: what the candidates’ messages express about their views of prosperity and its sources. The word “prosperity” might seem out of place in [...]