One Billion Points of Light (or “smackaroos” if you prefer…) While many of us associate General Electric with either lightbulbs or defense contracts, this story from Planet Ark demonstrates the [ … ]
A Different Family on the Family Farm From Alternet, a story on the changing face of the family farm. Now, more “city slickers” are moving to the country and going [ … ]
Using Conversation to Change the World From the Sustainable Business Insider, a feature/brief interview with Paul Dolan of Fetzer Vineyards. According to Dolan, first we have to talk the talk…
Sustainable MBA program growing From GreenBiz, good news for Presidio World College’s MBA in Sustainable Management — student population has doubled in the second year.
Poop Power continued… Now the Brits are getting in on the act. According to this Planet Ark story, the British Science Museum is considering turning visitor excrement into power. So, [ … ]
SectionZ: Making Our Economy Safe for People and Nature Howling at a Waning Moon has blogged a number of articles recently from SectionZ, a magazine dedicated to “Making our economy [ … ]
Biomass fuel the answer to climate change and dwindling oil Interesting article on a study touting the promise of biomass from Yahoo! News via Howling at a Waning Moon.
How Green is John Edwards? From Grist‘s “Muckraker” Amanda Griscom, via Salon (and found through the Eco-Portal News Feed), an analysis of John Edwards as an evironmental champion. The verdict: [ … ]
Mass-Market Hydrogen-Fueled Cars in Ten Years? On one level, this is great news. Now that I’ve learned more about the Bush administration’s ideas about hydrogen fuel cells, though, I have [ … ]
Sun Power’s Promise and Limits From the Rocky Mountain News via Howling at a Waning Moon, some thoughts on the potential and pitfalls of solar energy after a two-decade test [ … ]
New Dream Energy Petition The Center for a New American Dream has posted a petition on it’s site asking that the major political parties place a “forward-thinking energy plank” in [ … ]
Try Not to Breathe! From Alternet, an explanation of the Bush administration’s move towards “risk avoidance” as environmental policy. Essentially, if fish is contaminated by mercury, don’t eat fish! Kind [ … ]
Catching up with the Sustainable Blogosphere Thanks to my fairly new Bloglines account, it’s become very easy to find and list other blogs focused on sustainability issues. Thus, I encourage [ … ]