by Gil Friend | Jan 10, 2006 | Sustainability
[Earth Policy Institute]: Lester Brown will be featured on the Lou Dobbs Tonight show on CNN, Wednesday, January 11, 2006, at 6 pm. Lester will also be interviewed in the first hour (2 – 3 pm EST) of NPR’s Science Friday with Ira Flatow Friday, January 13,...
by Gil Friend | Jan 9, 2006 | Sustainability
I’ve just posted a longer version of Houston: We’ve got a problem as this month’s New Bottom Line. (You can read it over at the Natural Logic web site, and subscribe to it as monthly e-letter.)
by Gil Friend | Jan 8, 2006 | Sustainability
That last $200 oil posting has generating plenty of, um, energetic discussion over at WorldChanging! Simmon is called an alarmist, and is defended as highly respected. Plenty of oil, or not. Nuclear more realistic than solar, or vice versa. Etc.Good posting, I’d...
by Gil Friend | Jan 5, 2006 | Sustainability
You’d expect a cover story about “peak oil” from WorldWatch magazine — but Barrons?!Titled “Twilight for Oil?” in the Jan 2 print edition, and An Unapologetic Alarmist online (needs subscription), Sandra Ward interviews Matthew...
by Gil Friend | Jan 1, 2006 | Sustainability
…says Darrin M. McMahon (author of the forthcoming Happiness: A History) quoting John Stuart Mill:’Those only are happy,’ he came to believe, ‘who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,...
by Gil Friend | Jan 1, 2006 | Sustainability
[New York Times]: Beyond Gasoline: His Car Smelling Like French Fries, Willie Nelson Sells Biodiesel. Willie Nelson has his own brand of alternative fuel called BioWillie that can be made from any number of crops and run in a normal diesel engine. Yet another reason...
