Local Energy News Podcast
LOCAL ENERGY NEWS reports on policies and practices that help – or inhibit – your community’s efforts to build local self-reliance in energy.
- Update frequency
- every 79 days
- Episodes
- 4
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2009
Van Jones Promotes Smart Grid, but is it Really Smart?
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If ever you need to push a progressive agenda, you’d do well to have Van Jones on your side. The first time I saw him, at a confere…
Creating Local Energy Markets
This commentary aired October 1, 2008 on KUNM.
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One of the greatest myths of our time is that renewable energy isn’t quite ready to compete with so-called “conven…
Drilling Offshore in the Age of Hurricanes
This commentary aired on KUNM on September 2, 2008
There’s nothing quite like a hurricane bearing down on the world’s largest collection of oil and gas rigs to remind you jus…
Telling the Truth About Oil, Wind, and Water
With the news these days dominated by Michael Phelps winning Olympic gold medals, John Edwards confessing to marital affairs, and Paris Hilton deciding to run for president, I barely even want to kno…