Oil spill and carbon emissions not enough
In The Daily Beast of the 8th of July BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not enough to create a bipartisan majority in favor of taking America off it’s addiction to oil. No, neither carbon emissions, nor a major oil spill is likely to be enough. The fact that will eventually do [...]
Small Progress Explained by Lack of Structures
Why so little progress at COP 15? While many people and experts seem aware of the pressing need for change, decision makers seem to be at a loss as to what decisions need to be made in order to initiate speedy transformation of global energy systems. Yes, by now we know about the problems and [...]
New book: "Overcoming Overuse: Energy Transformation for a World Gone Fad"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 13, 2009 CONTACT: M.J. Szimanski Washington, DC 202.560.7516 mike@buzzbinder.com Mats R. Larsson Höör, Sweden 0046-733-552411 mats@getinstitute.com Mats R. Larsson, Global Energy Transformation Institute (GETI) Founder, Releases Latest Book: “Overcoming Overuse: Energy Transformation for a World Gone Fad” Washington, DC – Mats R. Larsson, President and Founder of the Global Energy Transformation [...]
Big business is an important resource, says Jared Diamond
An increasing number of environmentalists seem to re-evaluate some of their core views about how sustainability will be achieved. In a previous posting I referred an article in the Washington Post, saying that environmentalists increasingly view nuclear power as one of the solutions that will help us produce clean energy in the future. In an [...]
Al Gore – ”Our Choice”: The Good News!
In his new book “Our Choice” former vice President and Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore outlines the opportunities of energy systems transformation. The book starts out where the previous book “An Inconvenient Truth” ended. The book provides extensive discussions of many of the most important technological opportunities for the development of renewable fuels and energy [...]
Nuclear power gains unexpected support
Environmentalists who previously lobbied and took action against nuclear power are now among the unexpected supporters of this alternative that may become one of the primary technologies for combating climate change. This is the theme of a front page article in today’s issue of The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112303966.html?hpid=topnews This is a really interesting sign of [...]
The IEA warns that goals to reduce emissions are too low
The previous week the International Energy Agency warned that the peak of non-Opec oil production will happen in 2010. A “whistleblower” inside the organization also warned that the official statements from the agency on the ability to increase global production overall are too optimistic. In a statement of the 14th of November the IEA states [...]
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
I only yesterday saw that Al Gore has published a new book: “Our Choice”, with the subtitle “A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”. How exciting that the former Vice President, and Nobel Prize winner, has written a book with a subtitle that eerily rings of the ideas promoted on this web-site and in my [...]
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Mats Visits GWU June 21
