What Solyndra didn’t teach us about clean energy and job creation | Grist

Still, if you can picture a Venn diagram with clean energy development in one circle and economic stimulus in the other, there is some overlap....why is the other 98.7 percent of DOE's loan portfolio doing fine?

“Why’s this so good?” No. 12: Ian Frazier digs into piggery

Environmental journalists often feel married to the tragic narrative. Pollution, extinction, invasion: The stories are endless, and endlessly the same. Our editors see the pattern and bury us in the back pages; our readers see it and abandon us on the subway or in the dentist’s office.

Nathan Myhrvold on the stats behind global warming - YouTube

["What used to be in balance is now off by 1%"] Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures, discusses the science behind global warming and how small changes "add up" over time

Recent Discoveries Put Americas Back in Oil Companies’ Sights - NYTimes.com

For the first time in decades, the emerging prize of global energy may be the Americas, where Western oil companies are refocusing their gaze in a rush to explore clusters of coveted oil fields.

“This is an historic shift that’s occurring, recalling the time before World War II when the U.S. and its neighbors in the hemisphere were the world’s main source of oil,” said Daniel Yergin, an American oil historian. “To some degree, we’re going to see a new rebalancing, with the Western Hemisphere moving back to self-sufficiency.”