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Absent a rigorous examination of statistics, meaningful dialogue about environmental issues is impossible. This is particularly challenging...
An apartment with a view is coveted property. After a hard day at work, sitting down in front of a panoramic window while sipping a glass of...
Rugged microbes equipped with a unique set of survival skills find high-temperature and acidic conditions a welcome home. And scientists...
The essense of New Suburbanism is to support a clean, but wider human footprint - which is anathema to much of conventional...
The fate of GM, Chrysler and Ford hang in the balance, with widely varying sentiments regarding what can be done, if anything. Both a...
Earlier this month heralded the formal launch of "Carbon Information Management" (CIM) software from Planet Metrics, a Northern California...
With renewable energy sources like wind and solar constantly on hand, it is no wonder that everyone wants to harness this energy with...
Twenty-five years ago, along with another young journalist, I coauthored a book called California, Inc. about our adopted home state. The...
The drinking-water pipe network in the United States extends more than 700,000 miles -- four times the length of the national highway...
Nobody likes a dirty workspace, but the chemicals splashed onto counters, mirrors and walls often leave a toxic residue that can cause more...
Mid-level ethanol blends such as E12, E15, E20 and even as high as E40 have garnered a lot of attention lately. Mainly because ethanol...
Earlier this year, on October 27th, Ausra commissioned their first solar thermal pilot plant, a 5.0 megawatt facility located in Kimberlina...
The problem for scientists and engineers has been that in order to tune a catalyst to do what is desired, you need to know how it adapts...
It is difficult to overstate the pride and the hope that accompanies the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States. As...
How epic has this correction been? The answer is worse than the 1987 programmatic crash (S&P -32%) but not as bad, to-date, as the 1973...
Solar panels have been the topic of thousands of articles over the past couple of years. It seems like everyone is going pro-solar, but...
Global warming is seen everywhere as one of the most important issues. From the EU to the G8, leaders trip over one another to affirm their...
With many millions - if not billions - around the world believing today's U.S. Presidential election could be the dawn of a new age of...
Imagine trekking through the snow in one of the most remote places in the world. Wind whips around your whole body. Your fingers and toes...
As the winds of change blow through America on this historic election day, here's an update on wind energy. The last two years have seen an...
Has global warming alarm become the goal rather than the result of scientific research?
When the history of the early 21st century is...
Today the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), along with the Ethanol Promotion & Information Council (EPIC) presented a webinar that...
Few plants show up on the table in as many forms as the soybean. This hairy legume has been an important component of various foods and...
It is difficult to put both sides of any initiative into a few words and capture all the nuances, but here are some observations for...
We have written about unions dozens of times, and have consistently acknowleged the contributions unions have made. But over the past fifty...
Last week EcoWorld posted a lengthy explanation as to why we endorse John McCain for President. We were so careful and so reasoned that...
Are the Studies We Rely On Reliable?
We discovered "The Antiplanner," Randall O'Toole, a few months ago, and ever since we have been...
It is always interesting to read the ballot in California when there are a dozen or more citizen's initiatives. Californians, despite...
Concentrated acid hydrolysis will transform virtually any cellulosic feed into fermentable sugars. BlueFire Ethanol, located in Irvine...
San Diego is an urban paradise. Temperatures are always comfortable, the sun shines most days of the year, and locals can spend any day...
If you think about the mission of enterprise resource planning software, in some ways it's surprising the modules for environmental health...
On Thursday 10-16-08 I attended the User Group meeting of Plexos Solutions LLC, a boutique firm providing software and consulting to the...
RE Power's "5M" offshore wind turbine is definitely the King of wind turbines - a single unit that generates 5.0 megawatts of electricity at...
About four years ago the New Yorker Magazine endorsed a Presidential candidate for the first time in its then eighty year history. One...
If you want to imagine the Western Hemisphere's equivalent to China's Three Gorges Dam, look no further than the proposed Severn Barrage...
USING CARBOHYDRATES INSTEAD OF HYDROCARBONS TO MANAGE SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY OPERATIONS IN COSTA RICA
The President of Finca...
Nanoparticles are all the rage for a variety of different applications, ranging from treatments for cancer to use in automobile sensors...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capitol, has slowly transformed into a sprawling city over the years, full of silver skyscrapers and modern...
Most of us have heard about the "Hydrogen Highway," that mythical roadway which, along with bullet trains and bridges to nowhere, may...
THE KEY IS TO BEGIN LONG BEFORE THE SPARKS FLY
Developers in areas bordering forested lands
can use fire-resistant landscaping...
Cities are hot: Filled with skyscrapers, traffic and hot pavement, heat simmers between buildings causing the "heat island effect". Stagnant...
The evolution of the global energy economy is dependent on transitioning to the "smart grid," a term to describe an upgraded electric power...
With Tesla now shipping 10+ vehicles per week, and other automakers, small and large, increasingly announcing electric vehicle programs...
We have been warning readers about the pension crisis for a few years now. In a nutshell, the problem is the following: California...
NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO GENERATE A KILOWATT-HOUR
Nuclear power stations as of 2002. For more recent data including...
When analysing the potential of biofuel, one of the prevailing questions is whether or not there is sufficient land on earth to deliver...
It is our official position that long-range government planning cannot work no way no how. But it is a mark of how bankrupt the planning...
The opponents of California's ballot Proposition 7 (read full text of Prop 7) claim it will "cost consumers and taxpayers hundreds of...
The great mosque of Djenne looms over one of the larger marketplaces in Mali, Africa. On the flat brown flood planes, mud walls up to 24...
America's credit crisis should come as no surprise to anyone whose been paying attention. We discussed this about a year ago in our post...
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