Democratic Diva

I’m on a quest to find good books on energy and the environment to read and recommend. My web surfing this morning led me to LifeTwo, a site devoted to midlife. The 2007 article I linked to cited Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by economist Bill McKibben. [...]

Bookmark this site! It’s Skeptical Science: Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism. The good folks there are compiling global warming denialist arguments and providing quick rebuttals to 91 of them. Sample:
Skeptic Argument vs What the Science Says
1 “It’s the sun” In the last 35 years of global warming, the sun has shown a slight cooling trend. [...]

This afternoon the lege killed the solar jobs killing bill.
House Bill 2701 was killed two days after hearing from several solar companies, including Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., which threatened to abandon plans to locate a factory in Goodyear.
The bill was seen as a potential showdown with the Arizona Corporation Commission, which had [...]

In a howler of a LTTE this morning, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-LD9) beseeched readers to support HR2701.
Join me in a fight to save utility customers millions of dollars from unreasonable mandates placed on them by the Arizona Corporation Commission.
These mandates have forced electric-utility companies to charge a tariff on utility bills over and [...]

I didn’t want my post on nuclear energy last night to get too long so I’m making a separate one for this.
HB2701 is a bill that would add nuclear to the description of energy sources that qualify as renewable for the purposes of AZ’s Renewable Energy Standard. What that means is that [...]

Yesterday CNN.com presented both sides of the nuclear power debate. I’m loathe to characterize complex issues as “debates” with concrete positions but for simplicity’s sake and because CNN presented it that way, I’ll go with that.
Taking the pro-nuke side was environmentalist Stewart Brand, who was interviewed by CNN:
Looking for a [...]

CAWCD. The Central Arizona Water Conservation District. There are 15 members on the board and they are elected. Here’s what they do:
The Central Arizona Water Conservation District acts as a Board of Directors for CAP and as primary managers of Arizona’s Colorado River water entitlement.
The Board is responsible for system maintenance and [...]