America’s Energy Future
America’s Energy Future
The Village Square was first born with this series on America’s energy future. It was about that important question, but really much more. The founders of our organization were on opposite sides of an important local energy decision that made it clear to us that we needed needed a space to discuss facts, but even more so, we needed to stay friends with each other.
Order is hard to build and easy to destroy. Sure, democracy is a pretty chaotic affair by definition, but this chaos now feels dangerous and destructive and harder to control with each passing day. We’d better be able to talk about it.
2007-2008 Season
Dinner Series: The Usual Suspects on the Coal Debate
Nuclear Energy Debate 2.0
Energy Alternatives a la Carte
The Economics of Power Generation 101
The Economics of Power
We’ll never come up with common sense solutions to providing the energy we need affordably and with as light a carbon footprint as possible unless we actually talk to each other. We’ll start that conversation tonight.
Fossils and Sunshine and Garbage, oh my!
We’ll never come up with common sense solutions to providing the energy we need affordably and with as light a carbon footprint as possible unless we actually talk to each other. We’ll start that conversation tonight.
Nuclear Energy Debate 2.0
Nuclear power seems like a bad idea and settled debate to those of us of a (cough, cough) certain generation. But turns out that perhaps it shouldn’t be? It’s zero emission and some of the things we’re afraid of aren’t so very true. So we’ll talk.
The Usual Suspects on the Coal Debate
We’ll never come up with common sense solutions to providing the energy we need affordably and with as light a carbon footprint as possible unless we actually talk to each other. We’ll start that conversation tonight.