I remember when I first arrived in university back in 1999. I had heard of people being vegetarian but when someone told me they were vegan, first thought was, “What on earth is a vegan?” The answer hit me like a tidal wave when we ordered pizza and there wasn’t any cheese.
It is [...]
TED has introduced Al Gore’s new presentation on environmental concerns. Some of the most fascinating points that he makes is that in order to act on his new findings concerning global warming, people need to feel a sense of urgency (I guess we’re still procrastinating…) — and after listening to military historians — he [...]
January 29, 2008 – 5:44 pm
Sometimes I wonder if politicians are creating more problems for the country in order to make opposing parties look bad.
There is a recent article about the Chalk River Nuclear Reactors in Canada that were originally shutdown by a regulating body and then restarted by parliament. Why? So that there would be enough isotopes [...]
January 11, 2008 – 2:32 pm
I thought this video was pretty insightful and Juan Enriquez does an excellent job explaining how we should take the idea of agriculture and apply it to the energy industry. More specifically, Enriquez points out to us that what we consider a chemical substance (i.e. petroleum or coal) is really condensed energy from sunlight.
Those [...]
January 10, 2008 – 6:15 pm
I really think the guys at CheatNeutral pulled off a brilliant campaign to show people why carbon credits are useless and are simply a way for people to feel less guilty without actually changing the way we think or the way we do things in the world.
Web hosting companies have been purchasing carbon credits in [...]
January 9, 2008 – 7:19 pm
Treehugger, a very popular online magazine, has an article written by Lloyd Alter about a $2500 car that notes the impact of such an introduction into India.
In one of the most populated countries in the world and likely to become the number one country in terms of population very soon (currently behind China a little), [...]
Learning to Support the Tree and Earth
