Title: Clean energy policy: Talk is good, adoption is better - by Bruce Anderson, Council co-chair, in MassHighTech

Industry sector: Government, Law, Solar

Clean energy policy: Talk is good, adoption is better

By Bruce N. Anderson

MIT built the world’s first solar house in 1939, followed by several more during the next 15 years. In 1962, Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring” as a wakeup alarm to an unaware species. On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day called the country to action. Heeding the call, in January 1973 I completed my master’s thesis at MIT on solar energy — nine months before the first oil embargo.

So you can imagine the range of my emotions this fall when I watched a president of the United States, exactly 70 years after MIT started it all, finally give a rousing clean energy speech there on campus.

At last! But not enough!

Read the full article in MassHighTech.

Bruce N. Anderson is CEO of Wilson TurboPower and co-chair of the New England Clean Energy Council