Yesterday I joined a panel at the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners. I was the odd man out in the group but that was the point. The organizers wanted somebody other than the Usual Suspects to bring an outside perspective to the …

I just heard a segment of Living on Earth in which Kevin Doran described the privacy concerns raised by smart meters that read the energy signatures of your appliances and report back to the grid. For example, an insurance company might see that you r…

I’d like to thank Caleb Clark for recording and posting a video of the talk I gave last month at the Marlboro College Graduate School. I watched it the other night and I think it’s my best explanation of a cluster of things I’ve been thinking a…