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Imagine, as a thought experiment, that everyone on the planet had the same share of the world's resources. It turns out your share is about six acres (2.5 hectares) of dry land.
Now imagine if that were your whole world. How would you treat it?
“A natural diet lies right at one’s feet.” — Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution It’s springtime here on my mountain...
In what surely counts as one of the greatest feats in the history of global trade, the United States has...
Back when I first read Stewart Brand’s "Environmental Heresies," I wrote about it admiringly and, in retrospect, somewhat naively. Of...
Quick, name a historic moment from 1987. I’ll wait. Well, yeeessss, that was the year that gave us timeless songs...
I want to tear my %$#@! hair out. On Wed. night in New York City, there was a formal debate....
World’s biggest offshore wind farm given OK in England The world’s biggest offshore wind farm has been given the go-ahead...
David James Duncan. What work do you do? I’m an author and essayist, a fly fisher and river guardian, a...
Here is a fun article from The Green Wombat retelling the "solar-to-hydrogen" car story for the millionth time. I read stories like this in Popular Mechanics decades ago. The article talks about using solar panels to store sunlight as hydrogen to burn in internal-combustion-powered cars. Australia has a lot of sunlight and summers can be hot. It would be far more efficient to use that sunlight to power swamp coolers to air-condition homes than to throw 90% of that solar energy away converting it to hydrogen and then burning it in a 30% efficient internal combustion engine. Passing hydrogen through a fuel cell to power an electric car or light a home would also be a lot more efficient.
