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What Counts as Renewable Energy and Who Gets to Decide?

Jeremy Quist

Discussions about renewable energy generally revolve around solar and wind power. There are good reasons for that. They are the most scalable and affordable options in our arsenal at the…

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Making Sausage: How the Legislative Process Shaped the IRA’s Climate and Renewables Funding

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The Roots of the IRA The story of how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was passed may seem incidental to the content of the bill, but Senate rules, and…

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How Solar Power Works

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Like a lot of things in our lives, we take electricity for granted. Most of us don’t think about how a car runs, how a plane flies, or how our…

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8 First Steps for Making Your Business Sustainable

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Sustainability is one of the buzziest of the buzzwords in today’s business world. That is not to say that it is a fly-by-night passing trend. The ideas behind the sustainability…

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The Future of Solar Power 2024

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The pace of change quickens Solar power has seen dramatic change over the last several years as solar has gone from a rounding error in the overall energy mix of…

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Dramatic Energy Policy? Somehow Argentina Does It

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Murder, cover-ups, spies, and a terrorist attack all somehow factor into the country’s energy sector. Argentina has achieved the impossible: it has made energy policy dramatic. Cinematic, even. A bombing…

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Internet Fact-checking 101: Case Study

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This is an extension of the Fact-checking 101 article which you can read here. I would recommend reading that first. A Case Study in Fact-checking Someone on my Facebook feed…

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Internet Fact-checking 101

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An essential skill in today’s world This isn’t exactly the Information Age we were promised. Instead of a bottomless well of the wisdom of the ages, we find ourselves wading…

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What Is Gay Identity?

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Gay identity, and identity more broadly, are misunderstood concepts. At its most basic level, identity is a part of who you are that you feel is especially important.

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Why Identity Politics Matters

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Somehow, “identity” has become a loaded term. Politicians, including some on the left, bemoan the influence of “identity politics,” an even more loaded term, on our political system. Some have…

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