At Stanford, GOP members gird for battle against fossil fuels
October 25, 2011 at 07:50AM
Sustainability 2030 in Climate change, Energy, Secretary of State George Shultz, Senator John Warner, Stanford, renewable energy, security

Finally, momentum may be shifting the game. What irony. The most conservative element in society, the military, "gets" the business rationale for clean energy and increases its renewable energy R&D tremendously over the past few years, when civil society has been decreasing its investment in renewable energy R&D to a mere few to none percent of GDP since the Carter administration. It's no wonder that China, Germany, and other countries are in the lead in colonizing the renewable energy market. Maybe intelligent republican thought leaders like Schultz and Warner can shift the republican business-as-usual juggernaut onto a more prosperous course of energy security and the ecological-economic innovation that will be the motor to drive progress towards a regenerative economy capable of levels of durable and secure prosperity that are impossible under the crashing-prosperity business-as-usual scenario. Read the article.

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