Big party on Sunday! Check out the action where you are and get your work shoes on. (They should definitely double as dancing shoes.) We’ll be at Honkfest in Cambridge, being free, green, laughing, dancing and generally spreading the word. For last year’s festivities, see this:
I was at this year’s Urban Green Expo in New York and vastly enjoyed William McDonough’s keynote presentation. He is an architect, designer, sustainability expert (from way back), and co-guru of the visionary Cradle to Cradle framework for building and living. McDonough’s talk had several key themes: * there are no wastes, only nutrients; * […]
The Urban Green Council is the NYC Chapter of the US Green Building Council. The New York City folks are very active, extremely creative and progressive, and forging true global leadership in green building and design. I attended their inaugural Urban Green Expo last year, and went again this year. The theme this year of […]
There are more than a few problems in the People’s Republic of China, to be sure, but the one to which I’m referring here is pollution. I went to an event last week sponsored by the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (ICET) and hosted by the India China Institute as part of Climate Week […]
Dr. Kostas Stamoulis is the Director of the Agricultural Development Economics Division of the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Dr. Stamoulis’s department produces the annual FAO publication, “The State of Food Insecurity in the World,” whose most recent edition, to be published in October, will indicate that the number of hungry people around the […]
Taste, cost, health benefits, nutritional value, accessibility and the speed of production. These factors, in no particular order, are fueling the debate between industrially produced food and organic food. Looking at both sides of the debate, Time Magazine asks readers to consider what the production of food means to the well-being of those who eat […]
Germans were out in force this past weekend in Berlin to give vocal and visible protest to Chancellor Merkel’s plan to extend the life of nuclear power plants beyond their statutorily mandated closure dates. The World From Berlin – “Most Germans Don’t Want Nuclear Power” was the headline from Der Spiegel. Between 100,000 and 40,000 […]
You remember the Waxman-Markey bill – The American Clean Energy And Security Act. It passed in the House of Representatives in June of 2009. Oh well, the Senate – being the Senate – allowed the historical moment to pass. In this case, the cowardice, political cynicism and utter lack of clear thinking has been a […]
There is a very good story in the NYT about an initiative being launched today to finance clean-burning cookstoves for the developing world. I have written about the pernicious health impacts of burning biomass in open fires and the burden of black carbon deposition that so badly exacerbates global warming. The NY Times reports “Nearly […]
You would not think it if you were judging the world by the quality of the work of the US Senate – scary thought – but there has been considerable progress made on confronting the climate crisis: from the EU’s (relatively) hard-charging approach, to the rapidly growing attention to clean energy and other clean tech […]
Greenpeace wants Facebook to power its data centers with renewables. Greenpeace is using all the power of cyberspace – including a Facebook page – for this initiative. Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOm puts it all in context here. The video is too cute to pass up. My nine-year-old is going to love it.
The two UN organization’s aiming to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halve hunger by 2015, will publish a report detailing a improvement in global hunger numbers from 2009 to 2010. The overall number of hungry people around the globe, however, remains remarkably high. Anticipating the release of the joint report in October from […]
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