December 13, 2011 – 7:00 am
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 [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing
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Also tagged alternative energy, China, Crossroad GPS, crt-tanaka, crt/tanaka, Green, green technooogy, Karl Rove, renewable energy, solar panels, wind energy, wind power
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by Mike Mulvihill
An excellent blog post Sunday by Kate Galbraith in the New York Times (Word Choice Matters for Energy Policy) points out the depth of our nation’s political obfuscation on energy policy.
Ms. Galbraith points out that when President Barack Obama speaks about the fuels of the future; his term of choice is usually “clean [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in PR Industry Trends
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Also tagged alternative energy, American Public Media, clean energy, coal-fired power, crt-tanaka, crt/tanaka, Facebook, NASA, natural gas, nuclear energy, Priya Ramesh CRT/tanaka, Public Relations, renewable energy, solar energy, University of Montana
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By Mike Mulvihill
…married with a lack of vision.” Ah, I often recall these lyrics from popular Tears for Fear song, Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985) when I think of government
In last Tuesday’s Buzz Bin, I lamented that Congress was likely to gut the Obama administration budget that contained more than $3 billion to [...]
October 26, 2010 – 6:35 am
By Mike Mulvihill
I have issues with society’s uninformed and misguided belief that renewable and alternative energy sources offer us a quick fix, silver bullet to the world’s growing appetite for more energy with less global impact.
However, a recent conversation with an old client and acquaintance, John Woolard, renewed my confidence that there are pragmatic, bold efforts [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing
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Also tagged alternative energy, battery technology, BrightSource Energy, carbon free generation, crt-tanaka, crt/tanaka, electric energy, Green, Ivanpah, John Woolard, land use, renewable energy, solar energy, solar thermal storage
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by Mike Mulvihill
How much is your company’s reputation worth? In the case of BP, apparently the U.S. government’s estimate is $20 billion. That’s how much the government has told BP it must set aside in an escrow account to restore public trust in BP, and, oh by the way, to expedite payments to help clean [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing
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Also tagged bankruptcy, BP, BP stock dividend, Chevron, crisis communications, gulf clean up costs, Gulf Oil Spill, obama, oil spill reclamation, PR Industry Trends, Reputation, The Wall Street Journal, Top Hat maneuver
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April 20, 2010 – 12:24 am
by Mike Mulvihill
In preparing this post, my research found hundreds of blog posts regarding last Friday’s SEC suit against Goldman Sachs (i.e., deceitful, if not illegal, activities in the mortgage securities market debacle that brought on the recession we appear to be just exiting). And now today’s news, which has generated over 1,000 posts – a [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing, PR Industry Trends
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Also tagged crisis management, Democrats, financial crisis, financial markets, financial reform, Goldman Sachs, Pew Research Center, public mistrust, Republicans, SEC, SEC law suits, trust, Wall Street
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By Mike Mulvihill
Young climate activists, who worked to mobilize voters in order to elect President Obama, are expressing great disappointment in the President’s recent announcement to expand oil leasing into large areas off the Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mexico,
It’s Getting Hot in Here (dispatches from the youth climate movement) dismays their generation is getting screwed [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing, PR Industry Trends
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Also tagged Cap-and-Trade, Climate Change, energy, energy legislation, Gov. Bob McDonnell, Green Power, obama, Off Shore Drilling, Oil and Gas, Virginia
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November 10, 2009 – 1:40 am
By Mike Mulvihill
Wind Power. Renewable Energy. Green Economy. There is an awesome amount of momentum in the America right now around all of these topics. We’re on the cusp of real change in how we create the gobs of energy we increasingly consume in a manner that is kinder and gentler to Mother Earth.
One problem – [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
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Posted in Digital Marketing, PR Industry Trends
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Also tagged CBS 60 Minutes, cyber attacks, cyber terrorism, electric grid, green economy, Green energy, renewable energy, smart grid, solar energy, wind energy, wind power
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