[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
It’s been a matter of faith in many US States that the free market is good - especially good in the matter of deregulation of power distribution and generation - because ‘it will bring low prices and high reliability‘. Being highly principled is less fun, now, that the opposite outcome is on the […]
Flying prop isn’t so bad.
Bradford Plumer writes in the New Republic about the most radical transition that we may have to make in the post-carbon world: the end of cheap commercial flight. Airlines aren’t very profitable with expensive fuel, and 25 have gone belly up this year already. Canadian transportation experts Richard Gilbert and Anthony […]
Back in the day before notebook computers could compete with desktops for price or power, a home office looked pretty ugly, particularly when dealing with big CRT monitors. Now it is so much easier, and the furniture is being designed to accommodate home office setups that really do go away when you finish your work. […]
New Sustain 12-wide
David Greene at Dwell notes that Americans have been living in prefabs for years- “they’re called “Park Models,” meaning they’re wheel-less RVs designed to stay put in a trailer park. (Malibu is full of ‘em.) The problem? Most are fugly. Outside, they look like a log cabin or faux colonial. Inside, they look […]
A big basket down low and over the rear axel means reduced chance of a spill when you’ve done some serious grocery shopping. Much safer, and more convenient, for the big hauls. Sure, a bike trailer is an option for bicyclists. But, for the elderly an electrical/pedal powered tricycle like this one […]
photo by Matthew Chatfield
Perhaps its because of our monkey roots—their lack of inhibition when it comes to handling their own filth must be lurking in us somewhere—that many of us find poo jokes and toilet humor so funny even as we, cough, mature. While excrement may elicit laughs, snickers and giggles from some, it really […]
photo by Yan Chow
Highlighting many of the same points made by Bill Clinton at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke about his vision for building green power in New York and for the country in general. You can read a …
If you’re one of the legions of animal lovers who’ve spent a holiday evening admiring the lights at the Bronx Zoo but deploring the carbon emissions they inevitably create there’s good news for you. The Wildlife Conservation Society has decided to move the annual event to daylight hours to create an extravaganza that won’t leave […]
“This is one of my favorite charts: A comparison of the distance a car can drive based on either of the following forms of energy, each produced on 100m x 100m of land (2.5 acres). How come that biofuel does not really cut it? Electric cars are about four times more energy efficient than fuel […]
Jatropha curcas photo by Dinesh Valke
One teething problem in the burgeoning biofuel industry is the issue of sustainability: Some biofuels actually increase greenhouse gas emissions while being claimed to prevent them; others add to food price inflation pressures; in some parts of the world, the labor conditions of biofuel crop farm workers have been called […]