Since the Industrial Revolution, the pH of the oceans has declined from 8.2 to 8.1, largely due to the absorption of CO2 and the formation of carbonic acid. What’s a lousy 0.1 in the scheme of things? pH is logarithmic, …
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Understanding the Ties Between Corporate Funding and the Findings of Climate Scientists
I doubt we’ll even know the entire truth behind money’s influence on climate change research. Here’s an article in the New York Times that discredits one of the few remaining climate deniers who had any real academic qualifications. From the …
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From Guest Blogger Jon Wikstrom: Five Eco-Friendly Technologies You Need in Your Life
People around the world are becoming more conscious of our effect on the environment than ever before. Technology has changed the world in many ways and has made a lot of things easier for us. It was only natural that …
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From Guest Blogger Sophie: Green Building Trends in Australian Architecture
Regardless of all the marvels man has achieved in the past, it is the sad fact that we as a species most often blindly follow the mainstream in any art and cultural form, frowning on all those who think differently. …
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Capturing Carbon in Useful Products
A very bright reader “BreathOnTheWind” (love the name!) comments on my post on carbon sequestration: Somewhere deep in the core of my being I feel that the answer for carbon must be to find a use for it. If carbon …
Whether It’s Climbing a Mountain or Installing Solar PV, We All Accomplish A Great Deal
As a result of attending my college class’s 35th reunion in 2012, I somehow was appointed “class secretary.” This means that I’m about half way through a five-year term in which, every three months, I gather, edit, and aggregate notes …
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Sadly, Energy Efficiency Products Lack Sex Appeal
A friend of mine is disappointed in the level of demand he’s receiving for the energy efficiency products he represents to commercial customers: heat-exchangers, solar thermal heating, etc. He writes: I hit up energy efficiency people in the hotel/motel industry …
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Energy and Transportation in the 21st Century
A reader notes: The auto and oil industries created our mobility. Wasn’t that good? It worked, didn’t it? It’s not that simple. Or maybe I could say that it depends on how you define “worked.” Observers of the energy and transportation …
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Big Oil and Renewable Energy
In response to my post Replacing Every Watt of Earth’s Power Consumption with Renewable Energy, frequent commenter Roger Priddle writes: It seems to me that conserving energy is going to be like wearing seatbelts – at first, obvious as prices …
Sustainability, World Population and Food Supply
A few weeks ago I remarked in astonishment that, its very laudable efforts to reduce suffering in the third world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation places little or no emphasis on contraception and the other elements of family planning. …
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