THE Manila Times' most recent forum, this one on the broad topic of 'sustainability,' was held on Thursday, April 18, and as I prepared to set off to engage in my discussion moderator duties, an interestingly coincidental article appeared in my morning news feed: an opinion piece by Dan Gearino, a senior writer and editor for Inside Climate News who specializes in 'the business side of the clean-energy transition,' musing on the somewhat ironic subject, 'Is it time to retire the term 'Clean Energy'?'