Food and Fumes
January 28, 2010
In a recent post entitled Sewage and Cleantech, I indicated that I would be writing about the challenges of dealing with animal waste in a future post. This is that post. Voltaire
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Learning from Nature II
January 5, 2010
I first discussed how designers are drawing from the world around them for inspiration in a 2007 post entitled Turning to Nature to Save Energy. In January 2009, I wrote another post
China and the Globe’s Green Future
December 17, 2009
As the climate summit in Copenhagen continues, all eyes remain on the world’s two great polluters — the U.S. and China — for a breakthrough. The U.S. has shown some willingness to
Climate Change Measures: Good or Bad for Business?
December 14, 2009
Amidst the endless arguments about how to cope with climate change there are very few things that opposing sides agree upon. Some opponents of measures aimed at stopping global warming don’t even
The Forests and the Trees
November 19, 2009
The seemingly endless debates about global warming normally focus on how human activity releases harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The activities that most people think about include the gases emitted by:
Eating and the Environment
November 4, 2009
I thought that a good way to end the current series of posts about food security was to provide readers with some information about how their own eating habits could help in
Agriculture Production and Prices
October 30, 2009
This is the third post in a series dealing with agriculture and food security. In the first and second posts of the series, entitled Agriculture Old and New and Agriculture: The Bumpy
Agriculture: The Bumpy Road Ahead
October 29, 2009
This is the second in a series of posts about agriculture and food security. In posts written earlier this month about East Africa, I discussed the devastating drought and resulting famine that
Agriculture Old and New
October 28, 2009
This is the first in a series of reports on the future of agriculture and food security. As you might guess, agricultural is symbiotically tied to weather patterns. One thing that people
The Greening of the U.S. Military
October 16, 2009
Historically the U.S. military has not been known for its commitment to environmental protection. Over the past decade or so, however, the military, like so many other organizations, has come to realize
