Energy Sec Chu Shows the Path Forward for Gridlocked Clean Energy Policy in DC
I include some excerpts here from an interview which Energy Secretary Steven Chu just gave with Platts Energy Week television (http://www.plattsenergyweektv.com/) an independent all-energy news and...
View ArticleChinese PV Solar Caught in Boom/Bust Cycle
Today’s industry press on the renewable energy industry in China carries an instructive piece of analysis on dynamics in the photovoltaic solar market — i.e., the ‘chips’ on solar panels that do the...
View ArticleInnovation & Disruption: Choosing between Tomorrow & the Museum
There’s a curious disconnect in discussions about China’s ability to innovate. Yes, there’s no question that China lacks the chemistry to produce tomorrow’s Google — rigid educational system, lack of...
View Article4 Minutes of Global Insight to Last a Lifetime
Thanks to BBC, 2.5 million people have already enjoyed this but it DOES pack 200 years of history into 4 minutes. It also drives home the key dynamic for us all to internalize about the natural impact...
View Article‘Shale Gas versus Renewables’ for Real World
I was asked during the UNEP Symposium in Philadelphia yesterday how I thought shale gas and ‘tight gas’ projects — which are at an early stage of operation in various parts of the world such as the...
View ArticleFinding the Pathway for U.S.-China Nuclear Cooperation
Premise Participation in China’s fast-growing nuclear market offers promise and peril for global market-leaders. A model coupling U.S. innovation with Chinese scale and speed of deployment offers the...
View ArticleHappy Year of the Snake – Update 1
Happy Year of the Snake! I have some major catching up to do so let me begin here with a link to my book which the Wilson Center launched on September 24, 2012. (Note: if you want to download the PDF...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Region & Tianjin Partner Win U.S.-China EcoPartnership Recognition
The summer’s over and the new work-year has begun. No better way to kick it off than with a reprise of our summer’s big news — China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia and the City of Philadelphia...
View ArticleQ & A with Author Mark Clifford on “The Greening of Asia”
The following post comes courtesy of Sinosphere, the China blog for The New York Times. Like a flower poking out of the cracked pavement of a concrete jungle, this is another hopeful sign that ‘The...
View ArticleSustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy
The motto of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is ‘knowledge in the public service.’ This publication of mine from September 2012 is made available to the public free of charge here...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 / Climate Change Nexus –––– 10 Key Impacts
The COVID-19 pandemic holds lots of lessons for addressing the climate change challenge. I’ll tackle the knottiest set of lessons — those concerning differing global responses, U.S. partisan...
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