Jeremy Leggett's Blog

Dawn of an energy famine

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:11:18 GMT

Jeremy Leggett reports on a recent renewable energies experiment carried out in Germany

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:20:17 GMT

A recent German experiment shows that renewable energy, harnessed on a national scale, can indeed replace fossil fuels and nuclear power - Jeremy explains.

Read the full article on the Guardian website.

Jeremy Leggett selected as CNN 'Principal Voice'

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:30:23 GMT

Principal Voices gathers together a series of the worlds foremost thinkers in their respective areas. For 2007 this is in social entrepreneurship, technology and innovation, and alternative energy.

Solarcentury CEO, Jeremy Leggett, has been selected as a Principal Voice on alternative energy.

As well as contributing his thoughts on the subject, including written White Papers to be published on the Principal Voices web site in the coming months, he will take part in Principal Voices round table events around the world over the course of the year.

Principal voices will be aired on CNN on Saturday 17th November at 1930 GMT / 2030 CET.

See here for more information

Jeremy interviewed on Chatshow.net

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:24:19 GMT

Watch the interview on Chatshow.net
In part one, Dan and Jeremy discuss Jeremy�s search for oil in Belugistan, and why this experience changed his career path completely. Jeremy tells us about his realisation of how much human race is damaging the earth. Previously with Greenpeace, Jeremy had found his vocation and set up a solar power company, Solar Century. Solar power being a renewable energy and much kinder to the environment.

Part two is where we find out about Jeremy�s new book, Half Gone. He writes about the oil industry and how he believes that the wool is being pulled over the eyes of the public when it comes to the truth of just how much of this precious resource there is left. He desperately hopes that his analysis is wrong and that we have been more careful with this natural fuel than he suspects.

In part three, Dan and Jeremy discuss how solar power could be made cheaper and become the competitive alternative to traditional fuels. They go on to discuss James Lovelock�s book, The Revenge of Gaia, and his spiritual views in comparison to Jeremy�s scientific approach to environmental problems. Stay tuned to watch Jeremy take part in Cheesey Dips!
Watch the interview on Chatshow.net

One step forward, two steps back

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:48:11 GMT

When it comes to green energy, we need industry and the government to start acting in harmony with each other.

British Gas sees the marketing of green energy services, including the selling of solar panels, as a route to doubling its profits. So says a headline in the business pages today. Traditional power supplies are providing only "low single-digit" profits, and going green in this new way can lift the profits to fully 9%, a spokesman says.

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Cheap flights to extinction

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:51:30 GMT

So, Michael O'Leary wants to fly people to the US for �7 in a fleet of new planes in three years' time. If society allows him to succeed in his latest scheme for the betterment of his business to the wilful detriment of the climate we will surely be on a suicidal course by the end of the decade.

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Let the train take the strain

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:32:36 GMT

The theory is this. The world is full of wonderful books, and terrible airports. Drop the airports. Read the books. Take the train.

Just as we now celebrate Slow Food, as opposed to its temporal opposite, let us now learn to love Slow Travel. This is my Mobilisation Resolution Number Two. (I will have to except love miles to Japan, where the in-laws live, and some other, currently inescapable, long-haul flights. So, fire away, cynics.)

War and skis

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:14:30 GMT

The Intergovernmental Panel�s warning was all across the front pages and TV news this morning. Apparently even the US networks turned up in force to the scientists� news conference in Paris. For the Guardian�s man on the spot, the graphs said it all. �The words �hell� and �handcart� came to mind,� he wrote. I guess no amount of evidence will ever be persuasive for some of the contrarian contributors to my blog strings. But in the history books of the future, I suspect yesterday will prove to be the day that all reasonable doubt was set aside

A call to arms on climate change

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:04:29 GMT

In today's report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have a mayday alert. The fourth scientific assessment from this expert group in 17 years tells us that the first tank battalions have already broken through the border. Reading between the committee-written lines one can sense the panic.

In 1990, I listened to the scientists who had completed the IPCC's first assessment in a Berkshire hotel. At a press conference, Margaret Thatcher, not otherwise known for eco-doom-mongering, warned the report would "change our way of life", and that we would cry out in the future not for oil, but water. The world seemed to be listening. The UN called for multilateral negotiations and most governments signed up. But these have run now for 16 years, and have done little to stem greenhouse gas emissions.

Take to the fields

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:14:12 GMT

The tipping point of global oil production will be accompanied by a dire energy shock, and we will have to redefine the concept of farming.

On Friday and Saturday last week, a potentially historic meeting took place in the rather unpromising location of the CIA, otherwise known as the Cardiff International Arena. Britain's organic farming community gathered en masse for the annual meeting of the Soil Association , and their theme was peak oil and farming in the post-petroleum era. Organisers and peak-oil whistleblowers alike thought that perhaps this was the first time an organisation in a critically affected sector has held a conference on the theme of peak oil.

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