Four Principles for Bioenergy: Most-Read Stories of the Year, #2

Among all (non-award) articles that ran in the Digest this year, none picked up as much readership as a summary from this year’s Dodgen Lecture at Mississippi State University,  “Four Principles for the shift from a fossil-fuel based society.”

Digest editor Jim Lane identified “the right to clean, affordable energy,” “Energy must be consumed within the radius that it is produced,” “An energy finance system must permit individuals to participate,” and “Energy must be recognized as a special class of investment,” as four core principles without which the conversion away from fossil fuels will be made extraordinary difficult.