Everybody’s jumping on the solar bandwagon
Solar energy growth fantasies that allow us to power our plug-ins and keep the lights on without disruption are not helpful in making the stepwise changes we will need to get us to 2050 all in one piece.
Technology
Deep thought – Feb 25
New Yorker: Big Foot (confusing morality and science)
I threw my fears to the wind (eco-activism and children)
Richard Smalley:
Imagine a world that’s energy-rich
David Ehrenfeld: Friendly fire
Renewables – Feb 20
Superiority of pragmatists over idealists
Wood makes a comeback
Turning a greenhouse gas into gasoline
Mike Huckabee on biofuels
Food & agriculture – Feb 16
Michael Pollan: The omnivore’s next dilemma
Energy Farms – blogging from the epicenter of relocalization
AI (Agricultural Intelligence)
Obesity – key driver for food localization?
Two reports at odds on biotech crops
Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Fermentation and food: The revolution will not be microwaved
Farming the Amazon with a machete and mulch
Homogeneous horror in agriculture
Bob Waldrop on local food systems
The birth of a farmers’ market
Up from dysfunction – Jan 31
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
Transport – Jan 22
Pledge to make UK landings and take-offs more fuel efficient
Tiny Tata Nano, big threat
Israel launches electric-car program
Dysfunction – Jan 22
Immigrants find help in fat-food nation
Fury in UK as fuel poverty soars close to a 10-year record
Plan for radio-controlled thermostats nixed
Some say bulbs threaten environment
Food & agriculture – Jan 16
Soil Association bans nanomaterials
Death rates and food prices
Making more food with less (biointensive)
Mushrooms to the rescue in SF Bay oil spill
Fiber CSA’s: Do you know where your yarn has been?
Can sustainable agriculture feed the world?
Energy reduction – Jan 10
Home energy use gets a ‘smackdown’ on reality TV
Fluorescents coming – any other bright ideas?
Digital tools help users save energy
Utilities amp up push to slash energy use
Renewables – Jan 4
Wafer-thin solar cells brings green power closer
New energy uses for asphalt
Shell, Biopetroleum to build algae plant
Europe’s biodiesel drive sputters
Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil, say experts
Medicine at the crossroads of energy and climate change
If medicine would regard peak oil as likely to occur within 12 years, in line with most predictions, then it will choose strategies which automatically address climate change as well. If the health care industry fails to lead, it will suffer the draconian consequences of having ignored the driving forces of the opening decades of the 21st century.
