Aquaponics, which not only grows vegetables in tanks of water but adds fish to fertilize them while growing worms in vegetable trash to feed the fish looks like it could be a major answer to growing more food in less space -- if a larger scale can be achieved. Read More...
Graphic pictures of Lake Mead in August 1985 and 25 years later. Some of it is drought, but much of it is human use, as the American Southwest pretends that the desert can support an increasing population that uses water as if the supply were inexhaustible. Read More...
A genetically altered cyanobacterium that "sweats" ethanol into its surroundings is a very promising new technology. It is one of several attempts in the works to produce fuel from organisms instead of from petroleum. Think 15,000 gallons of fuel/acre/year vs 328 gallons per acre of corn per year, and you'll get the idea. Read More...
This article really spells out some of the infrastructure and land-use problems we face as we utilize wind power. Looks like Texas is leading the charge (if you'll pardon the expression), but 19th Century land-use policy will be the stick-in-the-spokes that could keep the windmills from turning. Read More...
Okay, now we know that all that household stuff we've been using and breathing for the last 50 years is damaging our children. Sure, some of the problem is toxic chemicals outside the home, but there's a witches' brew under the kitchen sink we CAN control. Yet how many of us will stop using... Read More...
Because FDA scientists have declared the 1.8 million gallons of Corexit, the dispersant that BP sprayed into the Gulf, less dangerous to human health than the oil it dispersed, the FDA has decided not to monitor fish and shellfish for the presence of Corexit at all. Instead, the agency is testing samples of seafood... Read More...
Citing the very large costs of climate change, the state of New Mexico is making courageous efforts to cap greenhouse gas emissions in the state in the face of massive opposition from the usual suspects: well-heeled polluters. Read More...
One of several to-the-point articles on the issue of parking, where cars spend 95% of their time. There's street parking, and there's the huge cost of the real estate dedicated to parking that local laws everywhere require. Read More...
The Chinese are at it again, and we may be -- building the fastest (1000 KPH+) train in the world. This is what Detroit & the rest of the rust belt should be doing, and it's not. Read More...
Bacteria in breweries' wastewater can be used to transform the ammonium in farm runoff into harmless nitrogen gas. Considering that farm runoff is increasingly found to be our major water polluter, this low-energy system, still in early trials, offers big hopes. Read More...
