Category: Energy

By Clark A. Miller Even as leader after leader in New York exhorted each other last week to take action to address climate change, a steady drumbeat of news has also highlighted just how rapidly global energy systems are beginning…

By Elisabeth Graffy, Professor of Practice, CSPO and Lightworks Debates about federal carbon control regulations and a solar-energy-induced “death spiral” for electric utilities have been heating up, but along separate tracks. Those two debates have now effectively collided. In retrospect,…

Expanding access to reliable energy offers better route to address global challenges, climate and energy scholars say in new report. Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and…

Clark A. Miller and Jennifer Richter Nuclear advocacy is at fever pitch in the United States. This week, CNN will air Pandora’s Promise, Robert Stone’s new film advocating a major push for new nuclear power plants. This weekend, several prominent…

By Clark A. Miller Everyone knows an energy revolution is coming—yet the most important feature of that revolution remains obscure to most people, even inside the energy industry. The social and economic organization of energy is about to change radically,…

By Mary Jane Parmentier It has been <a title="Yasuni National Park One of Most Biodiverse Places On Earth" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119133510 team collaboration app.htmhttp://” target=”_blank”>said that there are more types of frogs in the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador than in the…

By Travis McKnight, The United States is moving increasingly closer to an oil shortage shock that will make the 1973 fuel fiasco, in which prices quadrupled in mere months and people stood in line for hours to fill up a…

Latasha Ball and Eric Kennedy, students of CSPO faculty member Gregg Zachary, provide a revealing glimpse of two parallel technological systems in the Navajo nation in northern Arizona. Both systems deliver water to people, but in very different ways. In…