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When in RoME…
As expected, the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) in Boulder, CO, which I had the pleasure of attending, inspired some welcome moral pondering. In particular, the keynote address on Thursday of...
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Third year of triple-digit growth in US solar PV market
In the second quarter of 2012 the US installed 742 Megawatts of utility-scale solar PV, reports GTM Research. This growth is largely attributable to the new Agua Caliente, Mesquite, and Silver State...
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Is Denton fracked?
At this point, one can surmise that natural gas drilling is a booming issue. This is especially true on big shale plays like the Barnett shale in North Central Texas. The challenge for municipalities,...
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A letter to the Denton City Council
Denton is knee deep in revising its natural gas drilling ordinance. A draft of the revised ordinance was released for public comments on October 2, and I thought y’all might like to read the comment I...
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Ambiguous policy language
“…as is feasible…” “…as nearly as practicable…” “…as needed…” Environmental policy language of this sort creates loopholes that undermine the strength of regulation. The problem is a lack of consensus...
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Geo-ancestral politics
Steve Pinker recently published this NY Times piece on the geo-ancestral cultural roots of contemporary political divisions – my advisor at BCEP was kind enough to bring it to my attention. The...
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Please take this survey for my Master’s thesis on hydraulic fracturing for...
Technology and Society: Fracking Ideology A survey of beliefs about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas Dear energy consumers, Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for natural gas plays an important...
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Science Progress publicizes study of beliefs about hydraulic fracturing for...
http://scienceprogress.org/2012/12/technology-and-society-fracking-ideology/ As a follow up to the Science Progress article I co-authored with Dr. Adam Briggle earlier this July, we have written...
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A prognosis of T. Boone Picken’s LNG vehicle future
I stumbled across this piece by Alan Krupnick this morning while browsing Real Clear Energy (one of my stops along my daily morning news adventure). Essentially, he offers us an evaluation of the state...
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Sierra Leonean prodigy comes to MIT
Last night I came across this MyScienceAcademy gem featuring Kelvin Doe, a 15 year-old Sierra Leonean who is nothing short of an engineering, mechanical, and technological prodigy. For years this kid...
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Listen up utilitarians! Friedman’s “win-win-win-win-win”
Putting a tax-based price on carbon emissions would be, literally and figuratively, a bold and explicit valuation of life itself–both of biodiversity’s preservation and of its fundamental elemental...
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Does being anti-fossil fuels mean being anti-modern?
To be adamantly anti-fossil fuels and then go home to happily relax in luxuries enabled by fossil fuels is an exercise of hypocrisy. But it is not hypocritical to be anti-fossil fuels and still be...
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Congress’ assault on knowledge
Last month, half of Congress decided that political science isn’t worth NSF funding unless it advances economic development or national security. Imagine, politicians making it more difficult to study...
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To frack or not to frack? That is the question
After a year’s work between Texas and New York studying the science, politics, and ideology of natural gas development–I present my Master’s thesis: To Frack or Not to Frack. Here is the abstract: The...
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The ideology and politics of fracking in an image
If you prefer visuals to text, here’s To Frack or Not to Frack condensed into a single image. Consider it an elaborate way of saying: when it comes to the risks and regulation of natural gas...
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Are we lobsters?
I am not a Constitutional law expert, but I have had a fair amount of legal education between my BA in Government and MS in Environmental Policy—and I’m sure I’ll receive more as I move through my PhD....
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Our new hydroverlords
The image below is one of four precipitation models published by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) that together forecast extreme global drought less than 50 years from now as a...
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A greener White House
As promised by Energy Secretary Chu and White House Council on Environmental Quality Sutley in 2010, the Obama administration is joining the legacy—alongside Presidents James Carter and George W....
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Wet and wild weather
Living in Boulder through this week’s historic flood was wild. And I mean that literally. Extreme weather is some of the only wilderness most urbanites are exposed to these days. There’s something...
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Prime real estate!
Antarctica is melting! An iceberg the size of Chicago recently broke off of the Pine Island Glacier because of an enormous and growing crack in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The Chicago-sized glacier...
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