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Photo: -Marlith-, Creative Commons, Flickr Iberdrola (IBE.MC), the wind energy giant from Spain, has been trying to buy Energy East (EAS) since June 2007. However, it has run up against hurdles as different public service commissions in the states that would be serviced by the new arrangement put the deal up for a vote. Now,…
It’s quiet in the Twin Cities today, quiet and cold.
One of Wikileaks coordinators, Julian Assange, blames them for what he calls “wasting first-rate source material", and charges that reporters, editors and publishers refuse to invest in analysis without additional incentives.
AltaRock secures rights for geothermal development.
Photo: jnxyz, Creative Commons, Flickr The power of bloggers is once again being put in the spotlight as BP (BP) encourages bloggers to use the latest product offering from the company, BP with Invigorate. BP offered some schwag to the bloggers in exchange for their thoughts on exclusively using BP with Invigorate. According to the…
Last night, at around 5 p.m. journalist Amy Goodman was arrested in St. Paul.
Photo: wester, Creative Commons, Flickr Looking for a way to trade the credit crisis? Boring! That’s so last year. Jump in and trade the water crisis. Over the last year, power-hungry politicians and lazy journalists (myself included) have been blaming greedy speculators for the dramatic rise in oil prices, and it’s just a matter of…
I was doing some research yesterday when it hit me; the stock market and global temperatures (i.e., global warming) are both undergoing a period of such unpredictable instability it’s hard to know what to expect from one day to the next.
In his Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech on Thursday night, Senator Obama said: For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as president:In 10 years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
Photo: skinr, Creative Commons, Flickr While the U.S. is busy trying to govern Iraq and keep the peace, China has settled a deal with Iraq allowing it to be the first international oil company to develop a rather large discovered oil field in one of the areas of Iraq considered "new" in terms of oil…
Photo: alincolnt, Creative Commons, Flickr In a recent article, Scientific American asks the question: “If people come to believe that they don’t have free will, what will the consequences be for moral responsibility?”
Photo: sarowen, Creative Commons, Flickr ConocoPhillips (COP) has joined the ranks of Big Oil companies getting out of the retail gasoline business. The Houston Chronicle reports that COP is looking for a business model that is more sustainable:
There are a number of ways to harness the energy of oceans, from simple tidal generators to more complex tidal barrages. Some researchers are even imitating Nature to come up with new designs.
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resiliency By Rob Hopkins Green Books 240 pages $24.95
Beloit College, in Wisconsin, annually publishes a list for incoming students that identifies (and perhaps corrects) the sociological and political assumptions of 18 year-olds entering their first year of post-secondary education.
Photo: blucarbnpinwheel, Creative Commons, Flickr There are a lot of thoughts out there about alternative energy, especially now that oil prices are going up again. And one of the latest forays into alternative energy is being conducted by Google (GOOG). Google, through its charitable arm Google.org, has offered almost $11 million for research on geothermal…
“In a game of give and get,” the PhysOrg.com reporter emphasizes: “The brains of people with borderline personality disorder often don’t get it.”
Photo: baboon, Creative Commons, Flickr Remember the 1987 sci-fi movie Innerspace (with Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan), where test-pilot Quaid is miniaturized and travels inside Short’s body?
With water, or the lack thereof, becoming the hottest new topic since global warming, the nearly waterless washing machine by Xeros Ltd (a private company out of Leeds, England) looks to take the appliance industry by storm.
The humble dandelion was first brought to America by European settlers.
Some years ago, an old friend of mine and I were shooting the breeze, discussing some global issues and what might be coming, when he abruptly declared "Actually, we’re wasting our time trying to speculate on what might happen, the outcome has already been determined." Now I have always trusted this friend’s judgment, but in…
With green investing becoming more popular, many people are looking for ways to diversify into green holdings — and even diversify within their green holdings. One way to do this is with green funds and indexes. And a green fund that is doing fairly well, considering the stock market performance over the past year, is…
Stonewashing a single pair of blue jeans takes 5 gallons of water and about a dollar’s worth of electricity.
In what is likely to be the biggest expansion of renewable power, Souther California Edison (EIX) plans to put solar panels on warehouse roofs. The move is expected to provide about 250 megawatts of power — all of it from renewable energy. Such a plan would be expected to accomplish two things:
Photo: Dawn Endico, Creative Commons, Flickr Apologies for the sensational headline. To put it more academically, following are seven issues that might significantly negatively affect the global political economy: