Quote of the Day

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz musing at AlwaysOn about ‘Java, and Survival of the Most Adaptable’ (which has to do with much more than software).I’m still amazed when I hear folks wondering how Sun monetizes Java. So at the risk of...

Passive Survivability

Building Green quotes my Sustainability — At the Tipping Point? article in their recent posting on Passive Survivability: A New Design Criterion for Buildings. (Another aspect of future-proofing; more to come on that soon.)Here’s an excerpt:In some ways,...

Convenient truths

Oops, I forgot the link to that NDRC climate change slide slide. And can’t find it now. But there’s a wealth of information at NDRC’s ‘global warming’ FAQ page.

Inconvenient Truths

Al Gore’s much touted movie, The Inconvenient Truth opens nationwide today, and goes wider next week. (You can see the trailer here or here.) I haven’t seen the film yet yet, but I did see Gore’s live multi-media version (on which the film is based)...

CO2: We call it life

Here’s an amazing example of what the mind of a skilled propagandist can produce: Two 60-second television spots from the Competitive Enterprise Institute ‘focusing on the alleged global warming crisis and the calls by some environmental groups and...