Dark Days for Green Energy
Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Published: February 3, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/business/04windsolar.html?em Workers at an OptiSolar plant in California inspecting solar panels. Because business has slowed, OptiSolar recently laid off workers. Wind and solar power have... Read more
This little piggy lives in a toilet (The Problem with Factory Farms)
If you eat meat, the odds are high that you've enjoyed a meal made from an animal raised on a factory farm (also known as a CAFO). According to the USDA, 2% of U.S. livestock facilities raise an estimated 40% of all farm animals. This means that pigs, chickens and cows are concentrated in... Read more
Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label (ny times)
By MIREYA NAVARRO Published: August 30, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/science/earth/31leed.html?_r=1&hp But the building is hardly a model of energy efficiency. According to an environmental assessment last year, it did not score high enough to qualify for the Energy Star label granted by... Read more
Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The Cousteau Society http://www.cousteau.org/index.html Before and after Cousteau left his mark forever on the planet and the oceans. When Cousteau and his teams embarked aboard Calypso to explore the world, no one yet knew about the effects of pollution, over-exploitation of... Read more
Power Isn't a Four Letter Word - EcoLiteracy.org Essay by Frances Moore Lappé
People think "power- oh, that's bad." But powerlessness, that's really bad! - Margaret Moore, Citizen Organizer, Fort Worth, Texas, 1992 A Massachusetts teacher I once knew asked his tenth graders to blurt out the first words that came to mind on hearing the word "power." They said,... Read more
Submetering energy in dorm land: Greening Up that Energy Star rating thing.
Background to NY Times Article: "Submetering permits the measurement of utility use in individual units via a building-owned meter that is installed for each unit. The property continues to purchase its utility on the less expensive commercial or bulk residential rate basis, but now the... Read more
"Is God a Green Woman?"
Discussion from LinkedIn Think Green Group based on The PlanetShifter.com Network Interview with Rianne C. ten Veen, Islam & Environment Specialist - Faith & Climate Change Project RV: "I personally define Creation as in the Quran, e.g. "Greater indeed than the creation of man is the... Read more
Joseph A. Schumpeter - "Creative Destruction"
Joseph A. Schumpeter "Creative Destruction" From Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: Harper, 1975) [orig. pub. 1942], pp. 82-85: http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/liu/english25/materials/schumpeter.html http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/schumpeterbio.html... Read more