Efforts to improve it and increase its use should be strengthened, not shunned, as the world moves toward a global climate agreement by its self-imposed 2015 deadline.
Samsung says that it could increase its use of renewable energy in other countries.
The company said it will increase its use of recycled plastic content in its packaging to at least 25percentt by 2025.
FedEx, which grounded its 660 aircraft, said it expected to increase its use of ground transportation.
Mr. Ashcroft's aggressive approach in the New York region was criticized yesterday by lawyers who said the best way to eliminate geographic disparities in capital punishment was not to increase its use but to reduce it.
Now it has also promised to increase its use of energy from zero-emission sources to 20% by 2030.
In other words, as the energy becomes cheaper, it provides an incentive to increase its use, a phenomenon known as the 'rebound effect' [2].
Starting next spring, Starbucks plans to increase its use of Fair Trade coffee by making it the "Coffee of the Day" one day each month.
In the first half of the 20th century, it took the U.S. 45 years to increase its use of oil until that fossil fuel represented 20percentt of the total energy used.
Meanwhile, India is poised to dramatically increase its use of energy in the next decade, much of it generated by coal.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been an enthusiastic backer of Cape Wind, pushing it as key to the state's efforts to increase its use of renewable energy.
