As energy prices rise, they have an impact not only on individuals, but also on state and local governments, colleges and universities, companies, and organizations of all sorts. In many of these institutions, there is currently little understanding of oil depletion and its far-reaching consequences, let alone a plan for an energy transition. As [...]

The UK-based technology website The Register features the tagline, “Biting the hand the feeds IT,” to showcase its skeptical coverage of the claims that pour out of the computer industry. This week, it presented a case study of a company that is promising a revolutionary green PC (depicted here), while trying to grease the hands [...]

Joe and I recently wrote a piece called Jujitsu in Action - The Smart Way to Fight Smears Against Obama. In it, we reflected upon the Obama campaign’s new Fight The Smears website, and proposed what we argue would be a more effective way of responding to false allegations.
This approach is also relevant to [...]

Grist’s David Roberts has posted an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Hermann Scheer, a leading advocate for renewable energy. (New Scientist conducted the interview, but requires a subscription to access the full interview.) Dr. Scheer is a physicist, member of the German parliament, and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.
In [...]

Recently, the NBC station in San Francisco briefly mentioned an intriguing new organization called Carrotmob and showed a clip that appeared to be from the video below. What makes Carrotmob so intriguing is its community-based approach to promoting environmentally responsible actions by businesses. As the video below demonstrates, it does this by building a network [...]

On Sunday, I had the good fortune of seeing a documentary called A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, which was released in 2007. It was shown as part of a film and discussion series entitled Positive Films for a Positive Future at the public library in Albany, California, which I find to [...]

Treehugger Radio has a great new podcast of an interview with Dr. Wangari Maathai (right), who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her leadership of an unprecedented international tree-planting effort that has changed many lives and strengthened communities in the course of its work.
After explaining some essential services that trees provide (controlling rainfall, [...]

If you don’t read Celsias, you should. Don’t let the unconventional spelling fool you. Celsias’ blog is among the most insightful (and widely read) on the climate crisis and ways to avert it. (Full disclosure: Celsias has published articles that Joe Brewer and I have written separately in the past. Don’t hold that [...]

If you’re like me, you upgraded your operating system to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) when it was released a couple weeks ago, and were disappointed to find that the included beta version of the Firefox 3.0 web browser is still annoyingly unstable. Okay, so you’re not that much like me, which is probably [...]