Solutions & sustainability – Oct 15
Popular Mechanics on appropriate technology
Change the message to save the planet
What a way to go – wake-up call
The environmental movement in the Global South
Technology
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 9
Kinsale two years on
Astoria couple throws out lifeboat of ideas to save energy, resources
Save electricity, save money and environment
Green chemistry attracts fans on campus
Can this muck save the planet? (wetlands and global warming)
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 8
Science on a shoestring (tools for resource-poor countries)
Enviro-conscious apartment living
My journey to sustainability
Documentary: Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
Climate – Oct 6
Climate change and Old Masters
The last green taboo: engineering the planet
Water companies need to adapt to climate change
Broken robots: technology reconsidered
While technological innovation will be crucial to making the transition to a zero-waste society, it will only be helpful to us if we can learn to control its unintended consequences.
Climate – Oct 5
Western states set records for wildfires
Lovelock: Ocean pipes could help Earth cure itself
Dragonflies, open water reveal rapid Arctic change
6 die from brain-eating amoeba in lakes
United Kingdom – Oct 5
Alarm bells ring about North Sea output
Tories call for new industrial revolution to tackle climate change
Britain near bottom for energy efficiency
World’s largest offshore wind farm approved for Kent
Poverty of vision
Toward an ecotechnic society
It’s popular to talk of modern industrial civilization as the most advanced form of human society. Ecological considerations suggest otherwise. In hindsight, will the industrial age be seen as the first clumsy step in an evolutionary process — and where might that process lead?
Technology – Oct 2
Is Windows an energy hog?
A commodity no more: indium tin oxide for LCDs
The Economist on biomimicry
Food & agriculture – Oct 2
Scientists making Brazil’s savannah bloom
Peak forestry in Tasmania?
Soil Matters CSA / nutritionist Marion Nestle
Coal to Oil: Same system, nothing new
Starting now, the Chinese government will support going into CTL projects full throttle, country-wide. It must do so to reduce oil import dependency and give itself a source of fuel oil or feedstock for products we manufacture everyday.
Solving Fermi’s Paradox
In the context of current debates about how to maintain the onward march of technological progress, it may be worth revisiting a logical paradox half a century old that casts doubt on whether unlimited technological progress is possible at all.
