Category: Environment & Energy

I come across lists of emerging technologies all the time. This one, from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is particularly good. This institute was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James J. Hughes. The list of 7 technologies that...

It was not really that hard to foresee the decision announced by Shell Oil today that they are abandoning their efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic, namely in the Chukchi Sea. You might recall the controversy here in Seattle about the basing...

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.

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...

Future mega-drought chances according to NASA study… Lake Shasta before drought… Lake Shasta now in drought… See more comparisons at weatherextreme.com. How will we cope if drought becomes mega? It’s not just a California problem.