Why I Haven’t Installed Solar Power and Batteries
Hey, I know the acronyms: DER, VPP, REC, FEOC, SMART, FRCEC, PPA, ESHEP… I recently went through the process of reviewing options for a 12.32 kW Solar Electric System with…
Category: Other Writing
When it comes to writing I have wide interests. I hope that is not simply another way of declaring that I’m shallow and pretentious. The beauty about writing is that the writer can say whatever he or she (or xe, for the gender non-affixed) wants to about his or her (or xer) own work, but it is the reader that has the real say.
Blues Skies by T.C. Boyle: Oh You Humans!
C. Boyle has entered the climate fiction arena before—A Friend of the Earth (2000) comes to mind—but I suspect that Boyle doesn’t see any of his work as primarily climate…
Matt Martinez of The Berkshire Eagle Writes Me Up!
You’d usually find in the post category of “DRG’s Writings” non-The Steep Climes Quartet writing of mine, or climate fiction reviews, or some sort of pontificating, but when the spotlight…
My Report About EROI, Written by AI
When you read widely about climate change and renewable energy you come across a bunch of articles about what’s wrong with very concept of the renewable energy transition. Often, such…
What Can You Do About Climate Change?
[Author’s note: I’ve written earlier versions of this short essay, but recently I’ve been exploring AI and clarifying what AI can do for me. Much of my attention has been…
Growing Energy Demand and the 2600 GW of Renewables Waiting “In the Interconnect Queue”: I Asked AI to Explain
A recent post of mine, “The Truth Will Out,” discussed not only Trump’s reactionary stance on climate change and the general lack of sense in pushing for long-term expansion of…
The Displacements, A Novel by Bruce Holsinger, Has Climate Change Manifest as Place Change
The Displacements, by Bruce Holsinger, was published by Riverhead Books in 2022, so I’m not beating myself up for only recently finding it, and I’ll admit to liking the book…
Plot- and Character Development-wise, Snowflake involves Thinking about Killing Trump
I’m sure I can’t tell you why I find myself thinking about the novel, Snowflake: A Novel, by Arthur Jeon, a novel that fits within the odd category of “climate…
Jake Bittle’s The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration Never Quite Arrives
When I review books, typically the books are climate fiction. Here, though, is a non-fiction climate change book review. I’ll confess this right up front in these thoughts on Jake…
My Latest Column in The Berkshire Eagle
Thanks to The Berkshire Eagle for publishing another of my columns, part of a project by Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s Berkshire Chapter Media Team. Today, April 22, 2024, my second column,…