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- Rocky Mountain Institute planning a revolution
- Rocky Mountain Institute wants revolution in energy industry. by Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- Happy hardware: tech lobbyist brings home the bacon
- Fed money goes for energy and water industries to get more efficient. by Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- What's the hurry? You can still see Miami from the plane.
- GAO calls for national strategy to cope with effects of global warming. by Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-31
- Give us clotheslines
- Is the laundry movement getting serious? It's certainly getting more attention. I blogged it about here some time back. The folks trying to protect their property values from a neighbor's airing their laundry in public...well, those folks may be fighting a losing battle. And clothes pins...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- For coal and cows we ignore the polluted water
- Our American system often reflects the basic values of the nation, and it's clear that money trumps public health. I'm not talking about the medical industry. Not in the purview of this blog. Today there's an expose of how much dangerous crud is in drinking water around...
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Toxic caulk syndrome
- Toxic shock syndrome was a killer in its day. Now the EPA is warning of toxic caulk...in schools plus other buildings that nobody ever inspects. Why bad caulk? The old stuff off-gases PCBs. Chalk another one up for the petro-chemical industry that create poisons faster than...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Foundation of our green future
- I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- $20/gallon gasoline: heaven or hell?
- Gasoline prices rank with beer prices and taxes as economic issues nearly every American reacts to. Now one writer has engineered a book designed to play to everybody's gasoline paranoia. Nobody we know controls the price of gasoline, but we are sure somebody can or does or should....
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Quantum dots getting bigger
- Nature has article on the growth of the quantum dot business. You'll have to pay to see the whole thing, but it is relevant for possible uses in the solar industry. In the big business of very small things, big things are happening. Here's one...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Worse and worse
- That's the word from yet another projection on climate change. This one uses a modelling technique developed at MIT. And it promises no good news on the over-heating planet front. It shows a probability of more than 5 degrees temp rise this century, and some...
- Blog posts 2009-05-31
- Swine flu and the enviornment?
- One sideshow in the current public hand-wringing over the new flu: is it possibly related to some environmentally catastrophic factory farms? Buried behind the bold headlines about travel warnings and "pandemic" pandemonium, there came this little political charge and counter-charge: the swine flu came from Mexican factory farms where pigs...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Who has the most to lose from rising sea levels?
- Sure, Bengladesh is a low-lying country. We've seen what water does in New Orleans. There are entire low-lying COUNTRIES in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. High water would take a toll on atolls, of course. Amsterdam and much of northern Netherlands are famously threatened by high...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- National Science Board: get with it, U.S.
- An advisory board for the National Science Founcation, the National Science Board NSB has added it voice to the chorus saying, "Enough with the oil and coal, already." The NSB suggests moving America toward a more sustainable energy supply. The NSB release says, "The NSB recommends...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.
- An exec from an energy company has repliedc to my earlier blog on a study of ethanol production and its water requirements. Here are some comments from Growth Energy’s CEO, Tom Buis. “America’s ethanol producers recognize that water is a precious natural resource that must be...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Twenty years after major eco-disaster: not fully recovered
- It's been twenty years since the Exxon Valdez dumped 40 million litres in Port William Sound PWS, Alaska. Just now Exxon is finally paying out its fines to the residents of the area. As long as much of the world in dependent on oil,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Innovation and competition
- The topic of how America competes economically in the present world has raised some crucial issues. Is there not a disconnect says one reader between innovation and competition? The best products and the best producers are NOT NECESSARILY THE SUCCESSFUL ONES. This talkback makes a solid point...
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- Who's to blame for America's loss of innovation?
- I blogged about one study of forty nations that showed the U.S. falling in competition and innovation. Down to 6th from its former leadership slot. Can we stop the slide? The talkbacks posit various interesting theories and placing of blame. Several indicate...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- The U.S. is losing it
- That's the conclusion of a study on innovation and competition. Globally Singapore is now ranked #1 in coming up with new stuff. The U.S. has now fallen to #6 behind Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark and South Korea. Seems that public policy and government supported-research are crucial to innovation,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Megacities: thinking green
- Human population growth seems inevitable if problematic. As the number of humans on the planet continues to increase, it's likely more and more people will crowd into dense urban areas with over 100,000 people per square mile. What will life be like? And what does that do...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Burning issue leads to innovation
- Researchers in Japan have developed a better mouse trap. Actually it's a better, more efficient hibachi for home heating. This new stove is able to burn a variety of sustainable biomass, is more efficient in providing heat and reduces CO2 emissions. So it wamrs your heart as...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
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