It has been a while since I wrote about automotive news and how we are going to move Beyond Oil (the name of the Sierra Club Campaign to get the U.S. off of oil by 2050). In fact, the Sierra Club Board of Directors, of which I am one, voted last week at our November Board meeting, to officially adopt…
Finally, there are an increasing number of well documented research papers being published that are validating what I have been saying for a long, long time: SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS TECHNOLOGICALLY POSSIBLE AND WILL NOT DESTROY OUR ECONOMY. IN FACT, IT WILL ACTUALLY BE ECONOMICALLY PROFITABLE TO DO SO ESPECIALLY WHEN PUBLIC HEALTH COSTS ARE ALSO PART OF THE…
Due to the People’s Climate March in NYC in September, the Sierra Club Board of Director’s meeting for that weekend was postponed to October. And since it was scheduled to be our Annual Meeting, that aspect of the meeting was rescheduled for our November meeting. This post will cover both meetings. Sorry for including so much in one post…
I have been debating in my mind as to whether to write about the new US-China climate deal that President Obama announced last week. After all, it’s been all over the main stream media and you’ve probably read enough about it such that you don’t need another article about it from me. But then I read the following piece that…
Last December 16th I published an article indicating that when a new technology reached 1% market share it was half way to 100%, as counterintuitive as that may sound. (http://www.franklytalking.com.php53-7.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com/3315) That article was about electric cars. But that applies to the solar industry as well and the following charts and data show that, once again, we are close to a tipping…
It’s now several months later since the following article was written and we know that the Tesla Battery Gigafactory will be built in Nevada. The following article details what the intent of this factory will be and how Tesla plans to make battery powered vehicles price competitive with those of ICE’s (Internal Combustion Engines). Elon Musk, Tesla’s owner and founder, expects that…
Some of you that have been receiving my emails since I began sending them in the mid 90’s may recall one back then that referenced the initial report from the Pentagon declaring that climate change was their biggest concern for the threat to long term world security. And over 15 years later, their initial perceptions have only become more solidified as,…
The following article reports that a “sea change” appears to be occurring. As I have previously mentioned, we are moving beyond the point where it’s necessary to convince people that the climate is changing, temperatures worldwide are getting hotter and that humans are the major cause of this phenomena. While there are still climate skeptics, there are less and less of…
For me and many others, divesting their investment portfolio from fossil fuel companies is a moral issue. Like the Sierra Club Foundation, that manages a $35 million investment portfolio, we did not want to be deriving our incomes from an industry who’s output was destroying the climate. Sure, we still need gasoline and fossil fuel powered energy, at least…
A couple years ago there began a movement for investors to divest from coal and other fossil fuels similar to the movement 40 years ago to divest from South Africa stocks and products to protest apartheid. I will admit that initially I didn’t think much of this effort as I didn’t believe it would gain any traction or have any impact…