It’s the birthday author Paul Theroux who said: “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, and travelers don’t know where they’re going.” If I may be permitted a liberty here, I would say that perhaps there’s an analogy here to where …
Natural Systems — What We Know and What We Don’t Read More »
Readers may be interested in the conversation Glenn Doty and I are having on electric vehicles, as comments to my piece: Lateral Power, Distributed Generation, and the Third Industrial Revolution. Here’s another question for Glenn (and anyone else who would …
National Security, Environmental Damage, Lung Disease, and Peak Oil Read More »
Reader James Deardorff points out: Conserving energy and natural resources can reduce economic waste by 40 percent or more. The problem is that conservation is counterproductive to our current production based economy. I’m working on a new paper “Corrosion Economics, …
Consumer Psychology Lies Behind Environmental Damage Read More »
