Food & agriculture – Aug 28
The power of produce (health claims)
Farming the concrete jungle
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands
Zimbabwe: Give fertilizer sector priority on power
Useful mutants, bred with radiation
Technology
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 27
The kibbutz sheds socialism and gains popularity
Know your carbon impact
100-square-foot house fits him
MIT pushes the revolving door to save energy
Efficiency measures could cut data center, server energy use by half
Solar and technology – Aug 24
Inkjet-printable solar panels… really!
When it comes to solar- lest we forget
Jeremy Leggett: Summoning the will to tap our solar brilliance
Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
Saving 20 million barrels a day
The 100mpg hybrid car should be here, now! The only thing inhibiting the plugin-hybrid / electric car has been the battery – and as this article will illustrate – the batteries are indeed ready.
Immunize yourself against future hype
A breakthrough in oil & gas industry technology is not inevitable. Indeed, it is not very likely. Painstaking linear growth in technological advances permit more oil to be recovered each year, but Seidensticker’s myths about technology change apply to the oil & gas industry just as they apply to most human endeavors.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 21
Better living through green chemistry
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour (interview about new movie)
Simple and cheap: Nepal’s application of science
Astyk: Cut your laundry energy
$100 laptop, meet the $100 desktop
Young people say family, friends make them most happy
Deep thought – Aug 15
Offshoring emissions, historical carbon and climate imperialism
Distributed generation of Amory Lovins’ brainpower
Ecological economist Herman E. Daly on climate change: From ‘know how’ to ‘do now’
Singing the nation electric: post-oil democracy
Renewables – Aug 10
Harnessing the energy of crowds
Algeria to tap vast sunbelt for solar energy
Wind turbine whining unwarranted
Deep thought
Gary Snyder from 1970: Four Changes
Population, pollution, consumption, transformation
Sharon Astyk: Is space an option?
Ag professor: Is capitalism sustainable?
The really inconvenient truth
Renewables & energy demand –
Aug 8
Net-metering and solar panels
Energy search goes underground in Basel
Making data centers greener
New front for campus activism: energy efficiency
Solar – Aug 3
Too much energy is wasted by converting it
A solar oven saves energy
Thin film’s time in the sun
Peak oil – July 28
David Strahan on the mainstreaming of peak oil (GPM interview)
Oil profits show signs of aging
The most dangerous metaphor: Moore’s Law
