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I’m a self-described optimistic pessimist (or was it a pessimistic optimist, I simply can’t recall). I can see the dark clouds but believe that, somehow, we can figure out paths to a better situation. But, perhaps like the military, I like to have a clear understanding of the “worst case” (at least the reasonable worst […]

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Games … Oscar awards … and, well, The Sun covers and Page 3 … that is starting to get hot. Well, those images are perhaps a little too hot for a respectable blog … but, if you choose to send your mouse that way, we can’t blame you …

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Japan is going back to the future, with a new approach to amusement park rides that might transition into the post Peak Oil world. Thanks to Treehugger for the tipper about Japan’s pedal-powered roller coaster.

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When talk focuses on emeraging states and Global Warming, most everyone points to China. India should not be far behind in our concerns. Beijing’s eerily mild winter has provoked anxious media coverage in the Chinese capital. In India, the melting of the Himalayan glaciers that feed the country’s great river systems is alarming policymakers. The […]

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While the Sports Illustrated cover is one indication of Global Warming’s becoming part of the societal lexicon in the United States, the growth of Global Warming as a theme and issue in Hollywood movies is another indicator. As per The New York Times, On Screens Soon, Abused Earth Gets Its Revenge. The big-screen will see […]

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As reported in Le Monde, after extensive study, the French postal system is undertaking a shift toward extensive use of electric vehicles for mail delivery. Currently, 60,000 of French mailmen (and women) deliver mail by bicycle (the classic Jaune — yellow — of La Poste). These will be transitioned to electric assisted bicycles and, to […]

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A key challenge for wind and solar systems is intermittency. The wind isn’t always blowing and the sun isn’t always shining. But, in many parts of the world, this presents an opportunity for complementary systems — as the wind is often blowing when the sun is not at peak and vice versa. Combining these systems […]

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The Hopewell Project, appropriately in Hopewell, NJ, has developed a solar-powered home generating hydrogen to run the home when the sun isn’t shining. And, there is the hydrogen-fueled neighhorhood golf cart, the electric fuell-cell boat, … the vision for the future.

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Sometimes it really is the simpliest things.  Approximately 93.5% of European Union motorists “are driving on under-inflated tires and causing an additional 18.4 million tons of carbon dioxide to be released into the environment.”

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Thanks to Plenty Magazine, Ecotality was alerted to Bill McDonough’s recent speech at the GreenBuild Expo.  As Plenty put it, here’s the money quote:  Recently I was asked to give a talk about sustainability at the White House to over 40 federal agencies. So I gave my talk and showed these slides, and afterwards I was […]

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