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Fracking research: Industry-sponsored, unclear, and misinterpreted
Science: Harder for people who aren't scientists.
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Could Securitization Democratize Solar Power?
After Wall Street popularized the term “mortgage-backed securities” in their destruction of the economy in 2008, you could be forgiven for thinking “solar securities” are a pyramid scheme. But in truth, they may hold the key to democratizing the financing and the ownership of distributed renewable energy. Right now, financing solar typically means looking for […]
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Green investment pays off for basically everyone except coal-based power companies
Green investment increases the resale value of a house by 9 percent; it pays the government 10 percent on its solar tax credit.
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Friday music blogging: Rye Rye
I love good hip-hop. I love good dance and club music. But as I’ve grown older (I recently turned 1,000), I’ve lost the will needed to wade through all the terrible hip-hop and dance music out there to find the good stuff. I can’t tell if it’s me or the music, but at least from […]
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Why is the U.S. government so bullish on coal predictions?
The Department of Energy has a more favorable outlook for coal than virtually any other major forecasting institution.
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Watch the moon landing live (with a 43-year delay)
In 2009, Jason Kottke built a site where you could watch the first moon landing as it happened, second by second, just 40 years late. Today, on the 43rd anniversary of the moon landing, you can still watch “live” coverage by Walter Cronkite, unfolding on YouTube just as it would have if you were clustered […]
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Aquifer discovered in arid Namibia could yield 400 years of water — or 15
A fantastic, life-saving discovery in one of the driest countries in the world also bears a large amount of risk.
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Whooping cough cases on track for 50-year high
The culprit, according to the CDC, isn't a lack of vaccinations -- it's that the vaccinations may be too weak.
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Soot Hearings: Speaking Out For Public Health
On Tuesday, hundreds of Philadelphia residents rallied and spoke at an Environmental Protection Agency hearing on new safeguards to cut deadly soot pollution nationwide. Today, many more will rally at another soot hearing in Sacramento. I grew up in the Smoky Mountains, where – believe it or not – dangerous levels of air pollution sometimes […]
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Residents of Key West have a choice: dengue fever or GMO mosquitoes?
Oh, we forgot one. The existing solution to the mosquito problem is widespread use of insecticide. Probably not much more appealing.
