Your Role in Creating a Decarbonized Future
A decarbonized future will require a movement—and a movement is made up of individual people. This means we all have a role to play in creating that future. Individuals have to take personal...
View ArticleThe Bipartisan Solution to Carbon Emissions
It is no secret that the United States is a deeply divided, partisan country. It’s part of the reason it has been so difficult to pass meaningful climate legislation. And it’s the reason I believe...
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Climate Change Conversations: The Methane Equation
Many people, when they hear the phrase “greenhouse gas emissions,” likely think of one greenhouse gas in particular: carbon monoxide. However, there is another greenhouse gas that is far more powerful...
View ArticleA Climate Change Conversation: A Consumer-Centric Approach to the Climate Crisis
I have long been saying that harnessing the power of market forces is the only way we will be able to reverse climate change — and that doing so starts with empowering the consumer to make greener...
View ArticleClimate Change Conversations: COP28 and ICEMAN
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in early December 2023, nearly 200 countries did something unprecedented in years of climate-related summits, agreements and conferences: They...
View ArticleClimate Change Conversations: All-Electric Is Not the Answer
Lately, there has been a strong movement to switch to all-electric appliances as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Some communities — including my hometown of East Hampton — are even...
View ArticleClimate Change Conversations: A Better Option Than Mandates
Recently, the current administration in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Conservative party, were forced into an embarrassing backtrack on a proposed...
View ArticleClimate Change Conversations: The Power of the Consumer
I have long argued — and have just done so again in my recent article “A Better Option Than Mandates” — that the best way to combat climate change is by harnessing the power of the consumer. In a free...
View ArticleJumpstart Climate Action by Harnessing Market Forces
In a recent opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Steven E. Koonin examines how the global transition to low- emission energy systems has progressed since the strategy was put forward in the 2015...
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Why Consumers Aren’t Buying Heat Pumps
At the beginning of August, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced it was giving $85 million to four heat pump manufacturers to “accelerate the manufacturing of electric heat pumps, heat pump hot...
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