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Rome Burns While Politicians Fiddle

by Mike Mulvihill
Back in November, my Buzz Bin post warned that as campaigning for the next presidential election heats up, green energy would become a football tossed back and forth for political gain with little concern for whether these actions foster or retard the creation of needed alternative energy generation and a foundation for achieving [...]

Skillsets Every PR Pro Needs

Guest post by Gini Dietrich (@ginidietrich)

If you missed it a few weeks ago, the New York Times wrote a piece about redefining public relations.
You see, the last time PR was defined was in 1982. Yes, 30 years ago. And, in the last five years, our industry has completely been turned on its head.
All of the [...]

Renewable Energy: Santa or Scrooge?

By Mike Mulvihill
If you asked Santa for more renewable energy in the U.S. portfolio this Christmas, you may hope that Scrooge intercedes with your request. Otherwise, your well-intended wish will bring with it a substantial increase in your utility bill for at least the next 10 years.
Perhaps the best example of this is in California, [...]

What Bill Gates Knows That Congress Doesn’t

By Mike Mulvihill
Whatever your opinion of Bill Gates and Microsoft, you have to admit he is one smart dude. So when Gates makes a plea in a guest editorial in Science magazine for more energy research & development by the U.S. government, perhaps it is worth taking note.
In the editorial, Gates says the U.S. should [...]

Solar is Drowning in Political Backwash

By Mike Mulvihill
An article in the NY Times this weekend, A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search, has generated a number of posts in support and in opposition of the article and solar subsidies.
The article points out that several investor-owned utilities and large projects capable of shopping for private capital, are utilizing federal [...]

Clean, Green and Bankrupt

by Mike Mulvihill
As a House Subcommittee probe into the collapse of Solyndra, Inc. widens (Solyndra received a $535 million federal loan guarantee), a second clean energy company with a $43 million Department of Energy loan guarantee has filed for bankruptcy. Beacon Power, which also received a $26 million in stimulus grant from DOE, was [...]

Are physicians ready for consumer-driven healthcare?

I have great respect for physicians. I think most people do. In fact, doctors were ranked in second place (right behind firefighters and before nurses and scientists) in a Harris poll that measured consumer perceptions of the top 23 professions So, why are some doctors having a Rodney Dangerfield moment and feeling like they “get no respect?”

Protest 101

By Mike Mulvihill
This weekend, our family posted a question to our friends on FB querying if anyone knew what the Occupy Wall Street folks really wanted. The response was voluminous, but so were the array of answers and their alarming lack of clarity. As the movement continues to pick up speed in cities around the [...]

The Rise of Texting, The Fall of Phone Calls: New Options like Apple’s iMessage Makes Texting Free

By Jeff Wilson, APR (@wilson0507)
I admit it. I’m slow to embrace change. The older I get, the more that seems to be true.
Case in point, text messaging. I text. Not because I particularly like it. It’s out of necessity. I have friends and family who refuse to pick up the phone to talk, yet will [...]

Steve Jobs-Inventor, Designer, Marketing Genius…a Buzz Bin Tribute

By Jason Stemm (@NYCubsFan)

A company lost a leader, an industry lost a visionary and a family lost a loved one yesterday when Steve Jobs passed away. He created and rebuilt a company into something than he may never have imagined as a young man in his parent’s garage. It reminded me of a friend I [...]