Beating Swords Into Solar Panels: Re-Purposing America’s War Machine
Why should we maintain our grossly expensive military-industrial complex when tax dollars are so desperately needed at home?
Electrifying Africa – But at What Cost to Africans?
Two U.S. initiatives to provide Africans with electricity seem likely to lead to large, climate-polluting projects rather than the locally sourced renewable energy rural Africa needs.
Cleaning Up Our Portfolios
A new movement is putting pressure on people and institutions to dump their investments in dirty energy companies.
Defense Braces for a Bad Decade
Rather than just sitting on the sidelines, watching in anxiety and frustration as this Washington catfight proceeds, defense-dependent communities and workers should get going on the proverbial Plan B.
The Koch Brothers’ Moonshine
The paper industry’s titans have teamed up with practitioners of the legislative black arts to turn their sludge into a slick tax loophole.
How Romney Could Blow Iowa
The wind energy industry relies on a soon-to-expire tax credit that protects American jobs and our health.
Green Scissors for Congress
The United States can’t afford giveaways for mining and oil companies anymore.
Blowing a Chance to Save American Jobs
Congress must renew a successful tax credit supporting the budding wind power industry.
Scraping the Bottom
We are all trust fund babies living off the wealth of our ancestors.
Greening the Pentagon
If we want to build up a green manufacturing economy, we should directly invest in it, not plow more money into military spending.
IT Systems Are Just as Important to Flow of Oil as Straits of Hormuz
The oil industry becomes more susceptible to sabotage every day.
Brown Bag Discussion: Venezuela, Heavy Oil, and a Renewable Energy Transition
IPS’s Sustainable Energy & Economy Network and the Embassy of Venezuela co-sponsor a timely discussion on steps Venezuela is taking to abolish fossil fuel dependency.
The GOP Loves the Federal Spending it Hates
Sen. McConnell’s tirade about the Solyndra debacle would’ve had a lot more moral punch if it were not for Zap Motors.
Solyndra’s Implosion Burned Taxpayers
We need to put the brakes on the Department of Energy’s flawed loan guarantee program before taxpayers lose billions.
Energy Finance: Perspectives from the Experts
With a global climate crisis fueled by rising greenhouse gas emissions on one hand and 1.6 billion people lacking access to electricity on the other the global community faces a serious quandary: How do we increase energy access while ensuring that our growing energy supply is clean and renewable? How can we structure a financing regime that meets both our environmental and social goals?