In the wake of the recent Washingtion Post report that denounced a solar panel Chinese supplier dumping toxic waste in a village, the Solar Energy Industries Association has released a damage control statement. “This story was the first we had...
Archive - March 2008
I was recommended The Meatrix by a friend and thought it deserved being shared. The Meatrix is an organization that discusses issues related to food, factory farming and sustainable agriculture. Factory farming has become a major environmental...
Phosphate is used as fertilizer. And it comes from the ground. As fertilizer prices increase and as the areas that mine phosphate become less productive, this could trigger even larger increases in ethanol prices and in food prices. And with...
The past week I have been up on Long Island on a big project. The hotel is not visible from where I am working, but only because there is a big building in between. Most of the people who traveled up here with me got a rental car. The first time...
First, before we get on to some exciting news in the world of solar power technology, I’d like to point you to this blog on Treehugger, which is also about the solar panel toxic waste scandal in China that we blogged about on Energy Refuge as...
