Month June 2011

Big hydropower has huge unintended consequences

Big hydropower dams are not only hugely destructive while being built, they have disastrous environmental consequences after completion. Scientific American details the Three Gorges Dam Disaster in China in a 2008 article citing problems like less rain and more droughts,…

Solar powered coffee roaster

The Hartkop solar coffee roaster weighs in a whopping 5.5 tons including heavy supports to stabilize it in 90 mph winds in Colorado. Plus, it has solar-powered fans to cool the beans after roasting. So, while it’s not for home…

Food Justice. New campaign from Oxfam

Our food system is broken. But not beyond repair. Oxfam is launching the GROW campaign to sustainably feed a growing world population (expected to swell to 9 billion people by 2050) and empower poor people to earn a living,…

How Goldman Sachs created the food crisis

From those crazed radicals at Foreign Policy Don’t blame American appetites, rising oil prices, or genetically modified crops for rising food prices. Wall Street’s at fault for the spiraling cost of food. Instead blame the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI)…