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    Claus Schafhalter is Management Consultant and owner of Sunogos.


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    Squandered Opportunities — How Not To Manage Public Land For Renewable Energy

    Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

    No renew­able energy is gen­er­ated when the Fed­eral Bureau of Land Man­age­ment “man­ages” sites to gen­er­ate renew­able energy on pub­lic land. And Gold­man Sax seems to be in the non-generating busi­ness — why?

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    When We Measure The Wrong Things

    Monday, July 19th, 2010

    GDP is a poor met­ric for eval­u­at­ing invest­ments to increase effi­ciency. Every­thing else equal, more effi­ciency means that GDP is reduced. This is totally con­trary to any lean man­age­ment approach.

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    Germany Plans To Switch To 100% Alternative Energy By 2050

    Thursday, July 8th, 2010

    A new study issued by the Ger­man “Umwelt­bun­de­samt” comes to the con­clu­sion that Ger­many should be able to switch energy pro­duc­tion to 100% renew­able sources within 40 years. Inter­est­ingly the head of the agency, Jochen Flas­barth, states that this is doable with tech­nol­ogy that is avail­able today. Build­ing the nec­es­sary infra­struc­ture would need deci­sive action […]

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    Low Sustainability Ratings For Oil And Gas Corporations

    Thursday, June 24th, 2010

    An Oekom Study look­ing at 27 lead­ing oil and gas cor­po­ra­tions rates orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing their sus­tain­abil­ity. The study’s authors granted that cor­po­ra­tions try to do the right things, how­ever over­all their activ­i­ties are not focused enough and lack tan­gi­ble results. On a scale from A+ to D-, the small Aus­trian com­pany OMV ranked first with […]

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    Green Homes Sell!

    Monday, June 7th, 2010

    Many builders attend­ing the National Green Build­ing Con­fer­ence stated that they have been able to sell sus­tain­ably built homes con­sid­er­ably faster than the tra­di­tion­ally built new homes that have been lan­guish­ing in today’s tough mar­ket. Espe­cially energy effi­ciency remains the fea­ture most impor­tant to con­sumers inter­ested in green build­ings. Good news is also that the price […]

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