Environment – Mar 10
Madison Declaration on Mercury Pollution
Professor fights against plastic
Devastated system dying of thirst
The Bio-DaVersity code
Waste
Energy consumption – Jan 8
Clean air vs. TV in poor India villages
Japan:
the land of rising conservation
Taking control of electric bill, hour by hour
E. Europe: Open windows in winter
Colorado’s electricity infrastructure needs jump-start
Turning off the digital world
More than 6 million PCs will be left on over Christmas, consuming nearly 40 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Many of our beloved technological toys are remarkably inefficient and use more electricity than they really need to.
Biofuels – Dec 11
Liposuctioned fat could be bio-diesel fuel
Can biodiesel compete on price?
Grist biofuels series shifts into future tense
As alternative energy heats up, environmental concerns grow
Technology – Nov 22
Should Google go nuclear? (new fusion tech, and Robert Hirsch’s nuclear past)
Geoengineering: new talk of manipulating Earth’s climate (updated)
She harnesses viruses to make things (bio-nanotech)
Waste management: One man’s trash… (plasma tech)
Breaking the H2 marriage (new catalyst)
Wasting away
Allow me to introduce you to the greenest people I have ever known. They are paragons. If the world had only followed their example we might not now be facing the threat of either drowning in the floodwaters created by global warming or watching fertile land turn into desert.
(Excerpt)
British nuclear – Oct 28
Nuclear problems may boost UK energy costs /
Hinkley Point power station ‘may never open again’ /
Hunterston nuclear station’s cracks ‘a threat to safety’ /
Think-tank raps Blair over nuclear policies /
UK nuclear cleanup to cost $122 billion /
What is the best solution to dispose of Britain’s nuclear waste?
Environment – Oct 8
Wake up to IT’s energy crisis
Africa: Europe’s new dumping ground
Indonesian schools shut for haze
Detroit’s lack of trees creates environmental crisis
Nuclear – Sept 12
Swedes downplay severity of shutdowns
Pakistan key to Chinese nuclear exports
Feds reject nuke waste storage plan
Popular Mechanics: The Nuclear Option
The strategy of salvage
The humble alternator, junkyard fodder in an industrial society but a valuable resource in a deindustrial one, offers a snapshot of the possibilities for action in a post-peak society.
Food & agriculture – Aug 25
– Lappé: a right to food?
– Biofuels may strain U.N. goal to end hunger
– I was a student dumpster-diver
– The shocking truth about bread
Carbon sequestration – Aug 21
Deep-sea sediments could safely store man-made carbon dioxide /
Burying the evidence of global warming (carbon sequestration in lava flows) /
Needed: A Price on Carbon