The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.