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Welcome, Susan Thomas
Susan Thomas is a marketing and communications consultant who works with organizations to build awareness and credibility for their key initiatives. She began her career as a business journalist in Silicon Valley and later founded her own public relations firm. After her firm was acquired by an international PR company, Susan ran their Global Technology … Read more
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Loving Clean Energy – It’s a personal thing!
It is true: I love clean energy, but not necessarily because of some ideology, technical fascination or theoretical notion that it will contribute to a safer planet. I love it because it makes my life better. My day-to-day work at The Climate Center revolves around advocating Community Choice and other clean energy policies in California. … Read more
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Meet Scott Pruitt – and weigh in
The Senate is likely to hold a floor vote on Pruitt’s confirmation as EPA administrator later this week. Read on to learn about Scott Pruitt. Call your representatives to express any concerns. Kamala D. Harris (CA) and Dianne Feinstein (CA) ————— Trump’s EPA pick recently called climate change a ‘religious belief’ by Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress Scott … Read more
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Sonoma County’s Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery shows sustainability is sound business
by Jane Bender, The Climate Center Jane Bender is president of The Climate Center. Powering the Bottom Line (nbbj.news/powering) is a recurring column from that Santa Rosa-based organization. In 1978, Jennifer Bice took over her parents’ small goat dairy. Today, her award-winning goat milk yogurt, kefir and artisan cheese are sold nationwide, and she has expanded … Read more
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LA Times breaks story on California’s overbuilt electricity system
The article below, published in the Los Angeles Times, demonstrates the need for a shift in our current energy system to better align the needs of California residents and businesses with the goals of energy providers. Currently, the main objective of private California utilities is to maximize shareholder profits. In the Community Choice Energy model, … Read more
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Energy Policy Leader Update: Hans-Josef Fell
In 2010 I invited Hans-Josef Fell, at the time a German Parliamentarian, to visit Sonoma County to talk about the policies he successfully advocated for, which helped lead Germany in the transition to renewable energy. I caught up with him again in 2012 at the annual InterSolar conference in San Francisco shortly after he had … Read more
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Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground
In researching climate communications, I’ve been dabbling in the world of moral psychology. It’s a fascinating topic and Jonathan Haidt offers some very interesting insights into those funny creatures we call human beings. He has done quite a few TED Talks, but this one seemed particularly relevant to climate communications. If you want to reach … Read more
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How is the fossil energy industry like the circus?
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus just announced that it will cease operations forever this May. It will hold its final performance in New York where I saw it in the mid-sixties as a young child. As I read the reasons offered by circus owners to end after 146 years, I was struck by … Read more
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Wyoming lawmakers propose renewables ban, new study touts renewables standards
While Wyoming Republican lawmakers try to ban the purchase of renewable energy by utilities, it is clear that state renewable energy mandates are producing great economic benefits. A recent study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab shows benefits outweighing costs for renewable energy portfolio standards – by more than 200 percent. State renewable portfolio standards (RPS) … Read more