The Toronto Star has a report about a grass roots initiative in Toronto that is ‘bringing solar power to the people’ (nice pun). It says it all started with the formation of RISE (Riverdale Initiative for Solar Energy) by local artist...
I have never understood leaf blowers. And I am a product and part of suburbia. They are loud. They run on a gas/oil mixture. They pollute horribly. And all they do is move some grass clippings back into the grass from the sidewalk or...
Pope Benedict’s visit to America, home to 66 million Catholics, has been generating a great deal of press. It’s great to see the focus he’s been putting on environmental and animal welfare issues, regardless of the restrictions I...
Biuofuels came under attack at a conference in Washington DC over the weekend, as poor nations blame the Western focus on ethanol production for rising food prices that are causing riots and political instability in some parts of the...
The New York Times has an opinion article by Paul Krugman that paints a terrifying picture of the global food crisis in relation to energy and climate change. Krugman says that over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic...
