Engineering Solar Solutions for Third World Poverty
If you liked the story of William Kamkwamba, building wind turbines in Malawi, or the post about a solar startup in Mali, you’ll love this story about a team of young engineers at the University of...
View ArticleNOVA: Permian Extinction
You may have seen this week’s post on how new evidence from northern Canada about Earth’s greenhouse past was a smoking gun in a 250 million year old mystery – how 90 percent of everything alive on the...
View ArticleClimate-Denying Trolls Trained to Disrupt Internet
Did you ever wonder why so many websites and comment threads are crawling with right wing climate denying trolls? There’s a reason. They are an organized movement, promoting ignorance, and hatred for...
View ArticleMovie Trailers: “Into Eternity”
The trailer for a movie about nuclear waste – which, I guess will still be topical 10,000 years from now, if people are still reading and writing. If there is no writing, the movie asks, how to warn...
View ArticleTransatlantic Sessions: Aly Bain, Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas
You remember that story, that fairy tale, where there was a magic fiddle, and an even more magical man that could play it? The mysterious wizard who could charm the children and animals of the forest?...
View Article“Sun Come Up”: Documentary about Climate Refugees
“This is one of the first stories about climate refugees. — It will not be the last.”
View ArticleBill Maher on Climate Change
Maher is the only TV host with any audience at all that is upfront and urgent (if occasionally obscene) in his concern about climate change. He taped this rant several months ago, but it’s still...
View ArticleGraph of the Day: CO2 and Extinction Events
Peter Ward’s book, “Under a Green Sky”, kept me awake for several hot summer nights a few years ago. It’s a description of the ancient greenhouse event that kicked off the “Great Dying” – the Permian...
View ArticleShell CEO: More Demand, Less supply. Fuel Prices to Rise.
I guess that’s why he earns the big bucks.
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