Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It’s big things, and small things. I don’t know if these qualities come from growing up in the Depression, being a hard working man, not growing up in the computer age, or just learning to be a good person. But for my grandfather, every decision matters, to ourselves, our family, our friends, our communities, and the world as a whole.
Undoubtedly you’ve been following, more or less, the economic crisis that energy scarcity and the mortgage debacle has largely precipitated. Depending on where you live, you’ve probably also noticed over the past few years the shopping centers, office, and industrial parks popping up continuing the urban sprawl toward the exurbs. While these new bright and shiny, luxuriously landscaped pods of energy waste are well lighted, manicured, and maintained now, all you have to do to see where they will be once they’ve been abandoned for the next wave of urban development is to reverse direction.
“The challenge we face at this moment is pretty simple. We just need to completely transform our economy, our technology, our system of agriculture, our food system and the governance systems that go with it, and we needed to have done this all 10 years ago! It’s easy.. ” (laughs).
Gray turns green – Older people stay fit keeping the environment in shape
Natural air conditioning with sandwiches and a shake
Don’t let green roofs be victims of the crunch
Give your home an eco facelift
Posting at Energy Bulletin will be light over the next week. Also, a change in course for EB – fewer collections of headlines and more standalone articles.
Natural air conditioning with sandwiches and a shake
Don’t let green roofs be victims of the crunch
Better than new: Give you home an eco facelift
MIT’s guru of low-tech engineering fixes the world on $2 a day
7 rules of design From MIT’s guru of low-tech engineering
Short week for state workers proposed
As gas prices rise, police turn to foot patrols
Don’t blame speculation- look at depletion and supply- one man’s effort to educate the folks who never thought much about Energy until now.
Madam Speaker, I want to begin this evening’s discussion by reading a little reminisce that was written by one of my staff members, Dr. John Darnell. He’s imagining that he is talking to his granddaughter at some future date, and this little reminisce is called, “Making It Through the Energy Crisis–Future Reminiscences with my Grandchildren.”
“Grandfather, tell us the story about the men who went to the Moon and barely made it back–and how that was like when the world discovered there wasn’t enough oil.
The unfolding crisis of industrial civilization has become a dumping ground for Utopian fantasies of a better world to come. Getting beyond these mythic formulations may be crucial to any meaningful response to the future opening up before us.
College leaders, with help from facilities managers, sustainability directors, faculty members, and even students, should think hard about how systems on their campus would operate in an energy-scarce world. That thinking should range beyond running part of the campus fleet on a cafeteria’s fryer oil, a seemingly-popular response at the moment.
Forests to fall for food and fuel (RRI report)
Buying your own wood
Bulgarian eco town ‘the biggest mistake of Norman Foster’s career’, say protesters
