Day May 21, 2008

Wired calls for Death of Environmentalism

But today, one ecological problem outweighs all others: global warming. Restoring the Everglades, protecting the Headwaters redwoods, or saving the Illinois mud turtle won’t matter if climate change plunges the planet into chaos. It’s high time for greens to unite…

Electricity from trash

Waste Management is creating electricity from rotting garbage at 100 of its landfills, and plans more such projects. This is a double win, as the methane gas produced by the garbage has a 21 times worse greenhouse gas effect than…

Our clueless Congress

The House just passed a measure allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and setting prices. Does their cluelessness exceed their arrogance or is it the other way around? Maybe someone should tell Congress that…

Smart-grid technology

The problem with today’s creaky electricity system is not a lack of power generation. The problem is traffic jams. Optimal Technologies has released a product that monitors and analyzes the grid so a power utility can determine how best to…

Finally, a truly done deal

The money from the sale of our house in CT is now in our bank account. As seemingly happened with everything on this sale and escrow, the bank wire took longer than expected to occur. But occur it did, and…