Category: Environment & Energy

As Texas, Florida and the Southeast U.S., and other parts of the world drowned this late summer of 2017, here in the Western United States we lived through the fire next time. The fires dropped ash here in Seattle, attacked the Columbia River gorge...

I’ll take a break from sitting on the patio in record high temperatures and forest fire smoke in Seattle to post this fascinating illustration of global temperature trends from 1900-2016. It was created by Antti Lipponen, and you can see his original post of...

Early in October I had the opportunity to address the annual energy customer conference of the DHL company, in Houston. DHL provides extensive logistic support to the oil, gas, renewable energy sectors, from package to equipment delivery to warehousing services. The gathering in Houston...

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.

By Guest Writer: Every era of civilization is marked by a distinct style of architecture and the reason why is best summed up by Frank Lloyd Wright, the most famous architecture of recent times: “Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet....