Green Leaf Report

T. Boone Pickens came out with the Pickens Plan  for reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil this week. It seemed to hit every newspaper, website and television station around.  I’ve written about him several times before- there are always parts of his plans that I agree with, and parts I’m concerned about.  But that’s […]

Fast Company and BusinessWeek are currently running opposing articles on T. Boone Pickens and his wind/water plans for North Texas. The Fast Company article addresses his plans for a $10B wind farm in the panhandle and mentions the water project as almost an afterthought, while the BusinessWeek article talks about the $100M Pickens’ has […]

At the WindPower 2008 conference I spoke with a University student from North Carolina manning the North Carolina Renewable Energy booth.  He was part of a community outreach program for solar and wind; when I asked him how that was going for him, he said people in North Carolina tended to complain in the […]

Unfortunately, the Exxon Mobil shareholders meeting in Dallas yesterday was unsuccessful in splitting the chairman and CEO roles, achieving only 39.5% of the vote.  Several shareholders groups are angry at Exxon Mobil’s lack of investment in alternative fuels, and think Exxon Mobil is short-sighted in its reliance on oil.  Shareholders - including members of the […]

Sometimes the small things in life can be the most annoying. For example, when visiting the local cafeteria, why do they serve meals onto Styrofoam clamshell packages instead of onto washable, reusable plates?  A friend of mine asked one day, and was told: “We can’t use these Styrofoam containers in California anymore, so they […]

My Earth Day resolution this year was to continue to chip away at the personal and professional challenges to living right.   In honor of Earth Day, this past week I’ve:

Planted another tree in my yard. It’s an apricot tree- so hopefully it will have a dual role of absorbing CO2 and providing local fruit.
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So TXU is trying to rush in the coal plants so that if carbon dioxide emission caps come into play they’ll have a higher cap level to work within.  Great.  But some large TXU investors are also questioning the intelligence of the planned new coal plants.  Maybe we should join these other investors at the […]