America’s Energy Future

America’s Energy Future

“To the village square, we must carry the facts of atomic energy. From there, must come America’s voice.” — Albert Einstein

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

Jul 15, 2008

Dinner Series: The Usual Suspects on the Coal Debate

We’re circling back around for a respectful and constructive conversation this time.
Apr 15, 2008

Nuclear Energy Debate 2.0

What do bananas and the fencepost man have to do with nuclear energy?
Feb 12, 2008

Energy Alternatives a la Carte

Fossils and Sunshine and Garbage, oh my!
Oct 16, 2007

The Economics of Power Generation 101

Our very first Dinner at the Square!

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.

Energy Alternatives a la Carte

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.