Been a long time… since I hit the blog (cool guitar riff)… Yeah, a busy semester has kept me away, but Spring Break is here, and I’m finally feeling like [ … ]
Organic Solar Energy? My first thought — is there any other kind? But, this article on Solaraccess.com describes some exciting developments in solar technology using organic polymers. I’d heard recently [ … ]
Environmental Initiatives at the North American International Auto Show From the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a brief list of some of the eco-effective/efficient designs that auto makers are [ … ]
The Four Pillars of Hewlett-Packard Excerpts from CEO Carly Fiorna’s keynote address at the 2003 Business for Social Responsibility Conference. While I’m certainly impressed — he certainly knows the language [ … ]
Free Trade and the Environment Compelling column from Kumar Venkat on the environmental impact of free trade. Having read much of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline over the holidays, Venkat’s [ … ]
One Mac(k)-Daddy of a Hybrid Possibly coming soon to a military base near you: diesel-electric hybrid trucks that could also move into the private sector. Though not as fuel efficient [ … ]
War and Windmills While the opening paragraph for this article from the Corvallis Gazette-Times (via CommonDreams News Center) is about as clunky as my headline, writer/political science professor Paul F. [ … ]
Dems. on the Record SustainableBusiness.com has published a survey of eight of the nine Democratic presidential candidates on Energy & Related Environmental Issues. (Rev. Al Sharpton did not respond to [ … ]
State of the World 2004 The WorldWatch Institute sums it up as “Richer, Fatter, Not Much Happier.” Apparently, not only are many more of the world’s citizens enjoying Western-style consumption [ … ]
Sustainable Politics??? Wow! According to to this piece on Tompaine.com, Dem. political strategists are thinking sustainably… That is, they’re making the wild leap of linking environmental concerns to economic issues, [ … ]
Is Fuel Efficiency Trendy? I ask only because I still see roadways jammed with big pick-ups and SUVs. Still, good for the Alliance to Save Energy to praise the Toyota [ … ]
Hydrogen isn’t the answer now Read David Morris’s critique of the “hydrogen economy” yesterday in Utne, which was reprinted from Alternet, and now find it reprinted on Commondreams from the [ … ]
Critiquing the news on Climate Change Seen the statistics in several sources this week about dire predictions of massive plant and animal extinction because of global warming — scary stuff [ … ]