The obstacles to installing a transformative technology
Joan Fitzgerald
Joan Fitzgerald is a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University and the author of Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change.
Posted inClimate of Opportunity
The Case for Taking Back Solar
Installing a lot more solar is part of the path to clean, renewable energy. But we also need to be producing the entire supply chain.
Posted inTransportation
Cleaner Air Should Not Require Sheltering in Place
This is the moment to get serious about electric vehicles powered by clean electricity.
Posted inGreen New Deal
Cities on the Front Lines
Cities can promote green energy and local deliberations—what they need is more federal resources.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Mass Transit in the Sun Belt
If you build it, they will come—but not if the system is skimpy and unreliable.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Moving People, Not Cars
Dedicated lanes for bikes and buses are a great idea. But there is only so much city street to go around. The missing link? Limiting cars.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Green Wall Against Trump
He may repeal Obama’s Clean Power Plan, but states and cities can, and will, still do a lot to advance clean power.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Solar Eclipse?
Can the U.S. have a coherent solar policy in the face of China’s strategic trade moves?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Why Markets Can’t Price the Priceless
It takes government planning to promote the rational conservation and use of water.