Month: February 2016

Rice Policy and Legal Dimensions of Climate Energy Forum: Tandem Talks on Unleashing Our Home and Country from Fossil Fuels 

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Innovative Rice Air, Climate, and Energy Education found here

Tandem Talks on Unleashing Our Home and Country from Fossil Fuels can be found here.  Additional expert talks can be found here.   Student talks can be found here.

 

I had the great pleasure of being asked to give a tandem-talk with Assistant Professor Daniel Cohan at the Rice Policy and Legal Dimensions of Climate Energy Forum.  The forum, held on February 9th and 10th, 2016, was the first of a series of forums led and developed by Professor Cohan. Continue reading

A Book Whose Timeliness is Critical: Dr. David Duke, Assoc. Prof. at Acadia University

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…David Freeman and Leah Parks have written a book whose importance cannot be understated and whose timeliness is critical.  It is not a thought-provoking book in that it is aimed at an audience for whom the importance of the subject – a fully-sustainable energy future – is entirely clear. But it is an inspirational book in that the authors show clearly not only why energy sustainability has to be the most important policy issue of our time, but ways to achieve it.

Read Dr. David Duke’s full review on Laura Churchill Duke’s Blog

David Duke is Associate Professor and Head of Environmental & Sustainability Studies at Acadia University, Canada

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Turning America’s electricity sector into a growing and clean industry

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This book was a surprise and a revelation. What it does, no less, is propose in the strongest terms that America’s electric utilities do two things: (1) step forward boldly and supplant energy suppliers that fuel our buildings and transportation sectors, both of them high-energy use and high carbon emitting and (2) as quickly as possible, end use of fossil-fueled generation and replace it with renewable energy.

Read Robert Marritz’s full review at Electricity Daily

Robert Marritz is publisher and executive editor of both ElectricityPolicy.com and Electricity Daily.