by Gil Friend | Dec 16, 2002 | Sustainability
Flexibility Nature’s Secret to Building for Strength: Flexibility. With an experiment of soap film and a short glass fiber, mathematicians have worked out how something like a willow tree withstands powerful gusts. By Kenneth Chang. [New York Times: Science]...
by Gil Friend | Dec 15, 2002 | Sustainability
A First Step to Cutting Reliance on Oil. Fuel cells could ease the threat of global warming without taking away freedom and mobility. By Tom Redburn. [New York Times: Science]
by Gil Friend | Dec 9, 2002 | Sustainability
Tropical Rivers Produce More CO2 Than Previously Thought Science a GoGo: U.S. and Brazilian researchers say the amount of carbon dioxide coming off streams, rivers and flooded areas of the world’s tropical forests is triple that of some currently accepted...
by Gil Friend | Dec 7, 2002 | Sustainability
How Green Is BP?. The world’s second-largest oil company is advertising itself as environmentally responsible a tough sell when you make most of your billions drilling the earth. By Darcy Frey. [New York Times: Science] Long and worth reading. Comments to...
by Gil Friend | Dec 7, 2002 | Sustainability
Scienceagogo has a follow up article on break-through last month that may make inexpensive, super-efficient solar cells possible. If this is actually possible, then it would open up a clear path to decentralized energy. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
by Gil Friend | Dec 4, 2002 | Sustainability
Invest on the Cheap. Bill Mann wonders why companies aren’t using the weak economy to invest in their futures. [The Motley Fool] A weak economy may be a difficult time to grow sales, but it’s a perfect time for investments in resource efficiency —...
