Duff Badgley sat at a corner table of the Tully's Coffee shop in Ballard, eyeing the cars passing before him at one of Seattle's busiest intersections.
Just a few tables away, Congressman Jay Inslee, a champion of renewable energy and its future industry potential, sat discussing a breakthrough technology: the use of algae to remove carbon dioxide from the emissions of factory smokestacks.
Badgley shook his head. In January, the environmentalist protested at an event to promote Inslee's new book, Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, because he says it touts crop-based biofuels that aren't really green and help starve the world's poor.
"He says we can get rich off climate change," the environmentalist says. "Those leaders who have a notion we can prosper