For those entranced with the written word and learning, a truly painful life event is seeing the intellectual and ethical withering of someone whose work once had great meaning and merited true respect. New York Times / Dot Earth journalist Andrew Revkin stands as one of the more important and notable environmental journalists over the past several decades. Revkin’s books […]
The Rotting Away of a Hero: Andrew Revkin on Peter Gleick
March 21st, 2012 · 2 Comments
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ACI National: reasons to have it on your calendar
March 21st, 2012 · 1 Comment
I oft-times describe myself as a ‘systems-of-systems’ thinker (not engineer), fascinated by how (oft-times radically) different things interact in ways and for results unrealizable if we rest in a stove-piped consideration of some narrow part of a problem or the world. While the domains I focus on, our e3 (economic, energy, environmental) challenges and opportunities, […]
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Electric White Zombie Datsun Blows Corvette Away …
March 21st, 2012 · Comments Off on Electric White Zombie Datsun Blows Corvette Away …
Put a 1970s Datsun against a Corvette or a “pretty-quick BMW” on a speedway and what would you expect the result to be? That’s right. The electric car, an electric conversion of a 1972 Datsun, blows away fossil foolish competitor after fossil fool. The White Zombie is the “the first street legal electric car to […]
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