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“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” —Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises   Just a few days remain for getting to the Design for […]

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Chevron has come out with a game to structure the energy portfolio for a city.  EnergyVille “puts you in charge of meeting the energy demands of a city.”  You can choose nuclear … solar … oil … etc …

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Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies. Fascinating … exciting … even hope inspiring at times. And, as well, as the passion builds, so many of these are truly ‘Energy Cool’. We are cursed to “live in interesting times …” […]

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Land-Tejas Companies, a real pioneer in gated communities, is setting off in a new direction with Discovery at Spring Trails.  As they promote themselves, Innovation is the cornerstone of Land Tejas Companies, developer of Canyon Gate Communities. It is the refinement of vision and practicality. And now, from the developer who introduced guard-gated communities and […]

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Energize America, the people-powered plan for a sustainable energy future, has evolved.  Evolved from unknown bloggers sharing concerns about mounting energy problems, to a blogger community developing a holistic approach, to the blogosphere working with Congress to develop specific legislative approaches to help deal with the nation’s challenges. At  YearlyKos 2007, the EA2020 team reviewed […]

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Written by A Siegel    Monday, 30 July 2007 digg_url = ‘http://www.digg.com/environment/Tic_Tock_Goes_Carbon_Energy_Clock_Cool_Tool_Environment_on_Desktop’;Lou Grinzo, at The Cost of Energy, often has some of the best commentary on energy issues out there, succinctly catching key elements of major reports and articles from all over the spectrum. He also provides tools of interest, such as the Energy Clock. […]

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A beautiful summer day … perfect for soccer and basketball with the kids … biking to a picnic in the park … gardening … sipping a glass of wine … perfect for celebrating life … A beautiful day not to be … Jour de la Bastille … Bastille Day … Rather than Crash through the […]

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Truth be told, anyone with their eyes open is overwhelmed by the wealth of interesting, insightful, and high quality material out there — in soft (blogosphere) and hard (books, etc) copy.  This drives us, all too often, into stovepiping our focus, gaining ever more knowledge about an ever narrower focus area. Our challenges — as […]

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A week ago, the Washington Post Outlook section featured, under the banner “FACT CHECK”, a malicious attack on Al Gore starting off with flagrantly false information. The outrage floursished … As per Gorephobia Prominent in the Washington Post, Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington […]

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Perhaps you missed this … but … sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson started his OPED in last Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook section: You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason. True, but not truthful or honest. No […]

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