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I am an engineer and President of Integrated Renewable Energy in Seattle, WA, USA. After 30 years doing systems engineering for space programs, I decided to transition to renewable energy systems and energy efficiency strategies. I am working to develop and implement energy strategies for industrial and commercial users in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Energy & Emissions: Many people already realize that cows are a climate change catalyst. When it comes to carbon emissions, cows worldwide...

Energy & Emissions: The main problem with the failed cap-and-trade legislation is that we will be generating runaway carbon emissions fo...

Energy & Emissions: Imagine if some corporation discovered coal under your house, and you were powerless to stop them from extracting it. (...

Energy & Emissions: The DOE awarded $57 million to support clean energy technology commercialization projects for 33 small businesses acros...

Energy & Emissions: I read an article recently that advocated abandoning the "yes, but" paradigm for a "yes, and" paradigm. "Yes, but" driv...

Energy & Emissions: In a pond where the lily pad population doubles every week, the philosopher/environmentalist David Suzuki once told us,...

Climate Change: What's become clear is that the fossil fuel industry, the most profitable enterprise known to man, defeated the Senate'...

Energy & Emissions: What would Captain Kirk do? Say what you will, his ability to compartmentalize everything in a crisis and just keep mov...

Energy & Emissions: There's a persistent dream that if we just brew enough biofuels we can continue living the way we do - commuting 50 mil...

Energy & Emissions: Quick, which will save more energy, changing your washer setting to 'medium' from 'high,' or line drying your clothes?...

Energy & Emissions: I've written before about the obstacles to getting a carbon emission cap passed by the US Senate. Here's the other side...

Energy & Emissions: People of a certain age will remember putting a "tiger in your tank" at the Esso gasoline station. I remember being...

Energy & Emissions: The Laws of Thermodynamics are harsh. They mandate that each time you transform energy from one form to another, you...

Energy & Emissions: What if I told you that we already have the tools we need to reduce our nation's electric and natural gas energy con...

Transportation: One airline is advertising that its fleet emits less carbon emissions than a Prius per passenger mile. Obviously there'...

Climate Change: Just when you thought cap-and-trade was dead, the seven Western states and three Canadian provinces comprising the W...

Energy & Emissions: You really have to see this. I'm not so much a fan of NASCAR. Or, to be honest, of any auto racing event or leag...

Energy & Emissions: Thomas Friedman of the NY Times reported this from The China Daily the other day: "BEIJING - The country is set to begi...

Energy & Emissions: Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that the carbon emissions legislation, aka cap-and-trade bill, that he had hoped to...

Corporate Social Responsibility: Otto von Bismarck once said that "Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see either of them being made." You're on...