Janis R.
This opinion piece is by Marian E. Hopkins, Senior Director at the Business Roundtable. A couple of weeks ago, President Obama met with Business Roundtable’s member CEOs, and his speech reminded me of the “space race” of the 21st century...
Photos: Courtesy Nativas del Sur. Can you make super sleek furniture with wood from native ancient forests in a sustainable way? This project from Argentina that works with selective logging and super efficient use of wood suggests you can. More details...
Food pantry. Image credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Laurie Skrivan/P-D) The era in which increasing numbers of people were willing to pay a premium for locally grown food or for ‘organic’ clothing appears to be ending. Poverty has become...
Commuter park and ride lot. Image credit: Virginia DOT. Post about a transformational technology here and comments are sure to contain one-off criticisms. Many of these critiques become memes that return any time a certain phrase is mentioned. ‘...
A dugong in an aquarium in Sydney, Australia. Photo by jo3hug via Flickr. It must have required many lonely months out to sea to mistake this face only a mother could love for that of a fair maiden, but encounters with dugongs are indeed said to have...
Image: Youtube Cool Statistic of the Day Who knew a hockey game could be so energy-intensive? According to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that oversee’s the power grid in Ontario and balances supply and demand, the final hockey...
Image: Youtube Cool Statistic of the Day Who knew a hockey game could be so energy-intensive? According to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that oversee’s the power grid in Ontario and balances supply and demand, the final hockey...
It is estimated that 40% of the food produced in America is wasted; it amounts to 1400 calories per person every day. According to the EPA, 31 million tons is thrown into landfills. Much of that produces methane as it rots; the gas is 25 times more potent...
An image of a windmill is made into a crop formation by Greenpeace and Iowa Farmers Union. Image credit: All American Patriots, by B.G. Johnson Last year I laid out a case that we have nothing to fear from ‘Clean Coal’ a.k.a “CCS”...
