The War on Big Oil
No, I’m not talking about the violence of war, although, in my upcoming Over Brooklyn Hills, Book Three in my literary climate fiction series the Steep Climes Quartet, I have…
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.
What is the State of States’ Efforts to Make Home Solar and BESS Easier and Cheaper?
Red Tape, Not Technology, Is the Biggest Threat These days the American solar industry finds itself in a paradox. The technology has never been better, cheaper, or more essential to…
How Do I (Big Oil) Love Thee (Big Oil)? Let Me Count the Money, Despite the Costs
The fossil fuel industry’s war against the world Sure, the fossil fuel industry is powerful, but this only means we should go after it as hard as we can.…
Climate Fiction, Optimism, and Realism
“On the Urgency of Climate Change, Creating Hope in a Crisis, and the Limits of Western Storytelling: A Roundtable on Our Climate Futures with Libia Brenda, Vandana Singh, Gu Shi,…
Let’s Go Big on the Clean Energy Transition
Why Bet on Big Oil When Fossil Fuels Are Clearly Not the Future? “The clean energy transition is projected to be a strategic necessity for long-term economic stability, characterized by…
Putting the Bite of Law on Fossil Fuel Corruption
There’s no valid defense against the conclusion that fossil fuel energy systems expanding emissions of greenhouse gases is criminal… well, except the current law I say there’s need for as…
OBBBA and PUHCA: Rigging and a Runaround
Big Oil’s been busy in all sorts of bad ways It is hard to exaggerate just how strenuously President Big Oil Stooge has been sucking at Big Oil’s greasy tit.…
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…
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…