Everyone’s aware of the greenhouse gas emission issue, but no one’s talking about the fact that the oxygen levels in our atmosphere are declining faster than the CO2 is rising. The culprits: desertification, deforestation, and pollution of our oceans. This …
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More on Wind Energy vs. Coal-Fired Power Plants
A reader, who happens to be an old friend from my days as a marketing consultant, writes: One of the most useful seminars I ever attended was about rules for introducing a new technology that replaces currently accepted technology. The …
Climate Change and Crop Yields
A friend sent me an article in the journal “Agricultural Economics” that projects that food prices will be 25% higher in 2050 as a direct result of climate change on crop yields. I respond that this is incredibly complicated and …
Desertification and Climate Change – Affecting People in Over 110 Countries
In the course of a phone conversation I had yesterday with a young man looking for advice about a career in renewable energy, he happened to mention this Ted Talk, about a fascinating idea to stem desertification in Africa. The …
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Sustainable Land Management
Frequent commenter Tim Kingston sent me this piece on sustainable land management, noting: “I thought this might interest you. Makes a case for reintroduction of large numbers of bison to the western plains. This also ties into the 20 minute TED …
On the "Climate Change Debate"
I’m sure 99% of readers here know this, but the “climate change debate” that exists in the United States is an almost entirely local phenomenon. Put another way, there is no controversy whatsoever associated with the subject among educated people …
Climate Change Causing Both Beneficial and Harmful Effects
I’ve run across two different reports so far today suggesting that the surge in atmospheric CO2 is causing an increase in the amount of vegetation due to greater photosynthetic activity. I have no doubt that this is true; in fact, …
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Climate Change Is a Factor in Desertification, But It Might Not Be the Major Cause
I’ll never forget one of the very first conversations I had with a cleantech innovator, shortly after the launch of 2GreenEnergy. I was in my office, speaking on the phone with Abe Collins in Vermont. Abe wasn’t an electronic engineer with a …
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Preserving and Protecting Arable Farmland
Here’s an article on desertification, in particular, holding the line against the Kubuchi Desert, that contains a message, variations of which I predict you’ll hear a great deal over the coming years: “The top 6 – 8 inches of top …
Tagged with: arable farmland, biomass energy, deforestation, desertification, Dr. David Doty, dust bowl conditions, global climate change, global warming, Kubuchi Desert, mismanagement of agricultural land, preserving and protecting arable farmland, reduction in rainfall, removal of trees for firewood
Are Futurists Confronting Our True Challenges?
To write this post, I wanted to know the origin of the term “futurist.” Per Acceleration Watch: The Oxford English Dictionary traces earliest English usage of the term futurist to 1842, referring to Christian scriptural futurists. The next usage occurs with the Italian and …
