The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) is seeking qualified applicants for the following positions:

Lead, Stakeholder Relationship Management

The Stakeholder Relationship Management Lead is responsible for ensuring high-functioning business relationships between NEEA and its many stakeholders and funders.  In addition to leadership and ( Read more... )

I talk with people often about climate change.  When it comes down to it, human interactions with the world when done without regard to our impacts on it result in horrible things.  It is for this reason that I studied sustainability, abandoned architecture (without knowing 10 years later that architects would be a part of the solution), and got ( Read more... )

Here's what 205M gallons of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico last year looks like... if processed of course.

We're blessed with an extremely dense form of energy that took millions of years to be created. It does make me a bit sad that we've overused black gold to the extent that we have. Instead of treating it as precious, it is a commodity.

What ( Read more... )

A great article has been posted on Scientific American about the real costs of carbon and carbon abatement.  It's not as economically crippling as many would have you believe:

If we could achieve a cost of $50 per ton of CO2, what would that do to energy prices? Every $10 per ton of CO2 increases the cost of electricity by 1 cent per kilowatt hour, ( Read more... )

If you're looking for work, I can not only say that energy efficiency is a great industry to get into, but it looks like it is growing pretty well.  According to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (not exactly a neutral source, but one that knows the status of the industry), the energy efficiency industry grew by about 23% last year.

If you're ( Read more... )

Aerotek Energy Services is looking for Energy Efficiency Emerging Technological Project Managers.

These positions are with Bonneville Power Administration. There are opportunities in Portland & Seattle, WA.

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General Position Overview:

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) vision is to be an engine of the Northwest ( Read more... )

Scientific American has published two great articles about our dysfunctional relationship with Mother Earth:

• The Deepening Crisis: When Will We Face the Planet's Environmental Problems?, which looks at our divided-we-fall approach to global environmentalism
• If the world is going to hell, why are humans doing so well?, which examines the kicking of ( Read more... )

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Three executives from BP, Halliburton, and Transocean each blamed the other for the deaths of 11 men on the Deepwater Horizon in their testimony before congress, yet they all walked out of the room and off to their private jets to fly off to their private mansions - but if three people had robbed a gas station and 11 people had died because one of ( Read more... )

I watch Sunday morning programmes often.  Top on my list is This Week on ABC.  In today's episode, George Will, the resident conservative, opens with the supremely fallacious assumption that cap and trade translates to higher energy prices.  The only way this happens is if he has no faith in market economics.

Under market theory (granted this is ( Read more... )