by Gil Friend | Jun 6, 2005 | Sustainability
Blogging today from the Cradle to Cradle Design and Intelligent Materials Pooling course with Michael Braungart at SRI International — if I can get my offline blogging features working. Hmm. I couldn’t. 10 pages of notes. It may take a while to extract the...
by Gil Friend | Jun 5, 2005 | Sustainability
[Roland Piquepaille]: Making diesel-like liquid from carbohydrates found in plants has been done before by fermenting glucose into ethanol added to gasoline. But this process was inefficient and expensive because the ethanol needed to be separated from water at the...
by Gil Friend | Jun 5, 2005 | Sustainability
Also from Mitra (Thanks, Mate!): Transmaterials This resource has an amazing collection of new materials, many of which have an environmental/sustainability angle, they show how thinking outside the box has given us a lot of different tools for solving problems....
by Gil Friend | Jun 5, 2005 | Sustainability
[Natural Innnovations]: Thank you, Mitra, for flagging this article by George Monbiot, which tracks in detail the mistakes behind David Bellamy’s climate change denial (published in New Scientist). Not to put too fine a point on it, Monbiot concludes: It is hard...
by Gil Friend | Jun 5, 2005 | Sustainability
I know a lot of people who aren’t pleased with The New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman’s ‘world is flat’ perspective on globalization (nor with his views on Iraq). For my part, I sometimes find him glib, too focused on a clever turn of...
by Gil Friend | Jun 1, 2005 | Sustainability
[WorldChanging]: Buckminster Fuller argued that ‘spaceship’ earth could sustain a growing population at a decent standard of living if we used our resources effectively. Fuller had studied war games at the U.S. Navy War College, and it occurred to...
