Author: Justin Rathke

Vergent is fortunate to be in the position of speaking with businesses and communities every day on what they can do to accelerate their sustainability initiatives. Across the economy, organizations feel compelled to contribute something towards the global efforts to tackle climate changes. Some groups want to act to comply with regulations.  Some are motivated […]

Unfortunately, many of the current approaches are dangerously misguided.  Here is a simple critique of two of the more dangerous GHG reduction strategies: 1: Electrification of everything. Many electric utilities are pushing this with little opposition from state policymakers.  The idea is to electrify building heating and transportation.  The already-stressed power grid would somehow (through […]