During the rough and tumble of everyday life, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the immediate moment and lose sight of the broader perspective. This is true in all areas of our lives. In sports, a defeat can be overwhelming if not viewed as a learning experience.
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Most people in the wind industry would agree that there are two things impeding the growth of wind power in the United States right now: lack of long-term federal policy and artificially low natural gas prices. Try as we might, we can’t control either one.
It’s déjà vu all over again. Once again, political shortsightedness threatens to stifle a booming wind industry just as it did 30 years ago.
We enter 2012 in a flood of uncertainty:
What will happen in the U. S.
I love the holiday season. Where I grew up, Christmas was the major family holiday with a concentration of visits to the pub followed by overeating and naps.
As I write, members of the Congressional Super Committee have just succumbed to failure. The pundits are saying two things: that markets around the world are waiting for the U. S. to take the lead by enacting meaningful deficit reduction—but that we shouldn’t hold our breath.
Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to attend the AWEA Fall Symposium. This year it was held in southern California at a lovely hotel. To any casual observer, it appeared to be a normal corporate networking conference.
Green is gone
Remember when “green was green?” When mainstream consumers and multinational corporations discovered that environmental stewardship was also fiscally responsible? When going green was a lucrative business strategy?
Those heady days are now passed.
I’ve been wondering lately what it’s going to take to get this country of ours to wake up to what we’re doing to the air we breathe and the water we drink.
It’s August 2.