Good Ideas in Clean Energy May Be Right In Front of Our Faces




While I’m sure there are tons of reasons that this is significant, certainly a major one is that it resulted in the introduction of the Romance languages, primarily French, into the English language, which, at the time, was dismally narrow and crude. (more…)

Brandi: Hey you! Thanks for the share! If you’re around for tomorrow’s event 8-10 PM dinner with peers I would love to have ya! Address is ….
Craig Sorry, I won’t be able to make it, but it sounds fantastic.
Brandi: Perhaps the next one.
Craig: I’d like that very much. Btw, I had to laugh when you said I’d be around peers — and of course, I get the reference to your project. But your friends, though we probably agree on a number of topics, are hip, good-looking young people. My friends, even in their kindest moments, wouldn’t even think of describing me that way.

I am a believer in the concept of sharing as a core tool to drive sustainability. Perhaps the most obvious manifestations that we’re starting to see today are in transportation: ride-sharing and, increasingly popular, car-sharing. I just can’t imagine living in a city like Washington DC, Boston or San Francisco and owning a car, but it would be great to have easy and inexpensive access to one when I was travelling outside of such a city and public transportation didn’t make sense.
Yet the idea goes beyond the realm of mobility. As “Story of Stuff” spokesperson Annie Leonard muses, “What if we all didn’t need our own crème brulee blowtorches? What if we could just borrow one from our local library?”
And here’s a concept, Peer.org, that my friend Brandi Veil sent me just now, that I’d like to “share” on her behalf.


• anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real (more…)

The Sahara is expanding southward through the northern regions of Nigeria at the rate of an astonishing 600 meters per year, via a continuously moving avalanche of sand dunes. (more…)

Your source states that 67,200 EV’s have been sold this year, but that number is a worldwide total sales figure.
Total worldwide sales of ICE’s are north of 60 million thus far this year… so roughly one EV is sold for every 1000 ICEV’s. I don’t think you’ve gotten enough penetration to confirm that this will be anything but an extreme niche. (more…)