From Guest Blogger Jess: Tips for Natural Tree Care
Trees are a crucial factor in the filtration of our air, and absorb carbon dioxide from the environment, which is a key contributor to air pollution and global warming. Many people are pledging to plant trees to reduce the effects of pollution on our health as well. Here are a few key things to keep in mind when it comes to caring for your trees.
Don’t Forget to Mulch
Mulch is important for the health of your trees as much as it is for the health of your flower garden. It insulates the soil by providing a sort of buffer between the roots and severe temperatures, whether it’s extreme heat or extreme cold. It also retains water, which helps to maximize watering sessions by keeping roots moist for longer. (more…)
I often caution cleantech entrepreneurs to make sure they confine their business concepts to arenas in which much larger and moneyed competitors will not enter and immediately squash them. An example I often give (or gave) was electric transportation. If you offer a freeway-speed electric sedan, you’re competing with Nissan and the rest. However, it’s unlikely that these massive OEMs are going to want to enter the e-bike market.
Siemens, the German industrial giant, just completed the 
Here’s a recent article by one of my true heroes, Annie Leonard, on 
Those who think that federal subsidies for renewable energy are an unacceptable extravagance will be pleased to know that, by 2025, they will no longer be necessary, according to 
Starting in September, I’ll be doing a great deal of work to promote ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) and the industry leader within it, aptly named Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation. Although I’m not at liberty to discuss our strategy in any great detail, suffice it to say that I propose to create massive public understanding of the energy industry, the role of renewables, the consequences to our environment and to human health of the status quo in energy, and the prospect of a future in which OTEC replaces diesel as the energy source of choice for the one billion people living near tropical oceans.
I’m off on a hike that will ultimately take me to a vintage car show. I was explaining my viewpoint on the history of automotive design and engineering to my daughter just now, which I summarize as follows:
I met a delightful woman at yesterday’s “boot camp” in preparation for the 2013 Clean Business Investment Summit. Barbara Kerr Condon, who has a great deal of experience in this arena, and is in the process of producing a film called “
Do you know what happens in the process of the fermentation of yeast and grape juice to making the 26.2 million tons of wine made each year on planet Earth? When this subject arose at today’s session in which my team and I helped coach the presenters at the 2013 Clean Business Investment Summit, I have to confess that I thought the emissions were limited to a relatively inconsequential amount of CO2, as I am (very vaguely) familiar with the Kreb’s Cycle. (Recommendation: Make sure you haven’t had a drop to drink if you expect to make any sense of this, as described 
Changes in the temperature in the past decades have brought the worst natural disasters that wreaked havoc everywhere in the world. From hurricane Katrina in 2005 that claimed more than a thousand lives in the country to cyclone Nargis in Myanmar where more than 100,000 lives were lost.
