By Brenda Cooper with Glen Hiemstra There has been a lot written and filmed and talked about regarding the future of orcas in the last few years. People’s concern for orcas made a difference in SeaWorld’s business model. Right now, there is an opportunity...
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It’s an advertorial by Siemens called Greening the Work Week. Really quite good. In the Washington Post connected to article on the future of energy by Chris Mooney who is consistently great on science policy journalism.
Continue ReadingHere is what seems a very good idea. Use insulated shipping containers (empty containers seem to lay around in stacks all over the place), add some LED lights and a tenth as much water as normal farming, and you have a hydroponic farming food...
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If this holds, solar will cost less than half what new coal or natural gas electricity cost, even without factoring in the cost of air pollution and carbon pollution emitted by fossil fuel power plants.
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The future of water and Western drought are in the headlines. A major El Nino event is shaping up that could, while temporarily bringing rain to California, actually make the Western drought worse in the coming year. Canada’s Prairies have just experienced their driest...
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