Do you love those displays of Christmas (or Hannukah or Kwanza or …) lights? Are you awed by those so impassioned that they string up 1000s of lights in awesome displays worthy of a city center? I once did, pausing on cold winter nights, white clouds issuing from my mouth, enjoying being in the glow […]
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Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (an annual refrain …)
November 30th, 2009 · Comments Off on Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (an annual refrain …)
Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · green · lighting · political symbols · pollution
“Coal’s assault on human health”
November 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on “Coal’s assault on human health”
While the denialosphere is shouting about “ClimateGate” and traditional media turn their attention to SwiftHack, the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) released a report that should be on the front page of every newspaper, discussed passionately on every talk show, and be heard about by every adult American. While aware of the impacts of burning […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · coal · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · pollution
Energy Bookshelf: Contemplating A “World Without Ice”
November 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on Energy Bookshelf: Contemplating A “World Without Ice”
We ever so casually talk of Arctic ice retreats, the potential for Greenland ice meltage, and the implications of Antarctic ice mass falling due to global warming. Centimeters or inches, those 2100 implications seem so remote and, well, insignificant to most. Henry Pollack’s A World Without Ice provides a strong window on the essential nature […]
Tags: climate change · energy bookshelf · environmental · Global Warming
“The enemy is physics …”
November 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on “The enemy is physics …”
Courtesy of Grist, Bill McKibben speaks out forcefully.
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming
ClimateGate reveals nefarious conspiracy!
November 21st, 2009 · 12 Comments
I apologize. This post corrects something written yesterday. ClimateGATE reveals nefarious conspiracy? NOT! asserted that the hacked emails from a leading global warming (climate change) science center did not reveal some form of conspiracy in the climate change world. That conclusion was wrong. I apologize. There is a quite serious conspiracy highlighted through ClimateGATE.
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming
“Me too! Me too! ME TOO!” Climate problem, climate solution
November 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on “Me too! Me too! ME TOO!” Climate problem, climate solution
1 minute to save the world is a short film competition about climate change that has aimed to create a platform for people all over the world, particularly young people, to get their messages out about climate change and to put those messages directly to the global leaders and decision makers in Copenhagen in December. […]
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WIN to the Sixth Power
November 16th, 2009 · 10 Comments
With our ever mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment above 10 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment above 20 percent), looming peak oil and other resource (water, for example) limitations, enviornmental challenges, and ever-mounting climate chaos , we are in a very serious situation. Our serious challenges are, as the previous sentence suggests, […]
Tags: algae · architecture · architecture2030 · building green · climate change · electricity · Energize America · Energy · energy cool · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy
Palin goes rogue with counter-factual statements
November 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We should acknowledge benefits to Sarah Palin’s continued prominence in American society and political discussion. If nothing else, Palin opening her mouth is a jobs program to keep fact checkers busy at work. Her truthiness-laden Going Rogue should have us all going rouge (red) faced with frustration at the her page-after-page liberties with truth and […]
Tags: Energy · energy bookshelf · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics
Energy COOL: Green Portable Schooling
November 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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. When determining how to prioritize action using, by definition, […]
Tags: architecture · building green · Energy · energy cool · environmental · schools
Energy Bookshelf: A Super Ten more worth your time and money than Freaked-out Freakonomics
November 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Sad-to-say, the air waves and oped pages and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt’s and Steven Dubner’s shallow, truthiness-laden Superfreakonomics. The continued attention feeds on itself, as ignoring the deceptions and the mediocre interviews booked due to the authors’ Super(freaky)star status has the problem of giving it credence due to non-truthful truthiness and […]
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