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Plastics: Eco-Comedy / Eco-Tragedy

Posted on March 27, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On the power of humor, one farmer’s stand, birds, bottle caps, better bottles, trash-tracking and why corporations need to push politicians toward smarter recycling policy Here at TrackerNews, where our unofficial tagline is “One Damn Thing After Another,” the focus tends to be on the grim. Floods, droughts, plagues, blights, quakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, climate change, [...]

Filed under: eWaste, food, oil, plastic, recycling, water pollution | Tagged: albatross, AshEl Eldridge, Ben Zolno, Chris Jordan, Chris Palmer, closed loop design, cradle to cradle design, eco-comedy video competition, green circle, Green Sangha, Henry Brockman, Henry's Farm, Jenni Perez, Kris Krug, Midway Island, MIT's Senseable City, Pacific Garbage Patch, Pepsi, PET, plastic state of mind, recycling, Scott Walker, single use plastic bag, Terra Brockman, Wisconsin | Leave a Comment »

Trees, Food, Pakistan & the Lessons of Medieval Monks: How Ecosystems Thinking Can (Still) Save the World

Posted on September 13, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

On deforestation, floods, global commodity markets and food empires; The lessons of medieval monks; Urbanization and ecosystems thinking; Saved by a worm? Of all the horrifying stories to come out of Pakistan in this long waterlogged summer of raging floods, perhaps the most tragic is why the disaster become a full-blown, future-blighting catastrophe: Deforestation had [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, Diaster relief, drought, energy, famine, floods, food, forests, oil, rain forests, reforestation, soil health, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, water, water pollution | Tagged: Al Jazeera, Andrew Rimas, aquaponics, charter cities, Chris Anderson, Cistercians, city farms, deforestation, disaster response, Empires of Food, erosion, Evan Fraser, famine, floods, food prices, Growing Power, illegal logging, ISDR, Jacqueline Novogratz, medieval monks, megacities, Norman Borlaug, oil, Pakistan, Paul Romer, Russian drought, slums, Sweet Water Organics, timber mafia, Ug99, urban agriculture, urbanization, wheat, wheat rust, Will Allen | 2 Comments »

More Incentive to Clean Up the Gulf: The X Prize Foundation Announces the Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge

Posted on July 31, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

Idea first floated at the TEDxOilSpill conference by Francis Belland of the X Prize Foundation and David Gallo of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute becomes real. Since the BP gusher started spewing millions of gallons of crude oil and methane into the Gulf of Mexico more that three months ago, there have other high profile spills, [...]

Filed under: oil, TrackerBlog, Uncategorized | Tagged: BP, China, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Oil Spill, Michigan, Nigeria, Peter Diamandis, Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge, X Prize | Leave a Comment »

TEDxOilSpill: Surface Slicks, Deep Water Despair, Galaxies of Oil Platforms and Why We Really, Truly Don’t Need Oil

Posted on July 2, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

The bottlenose dolphin swimming the Gulf of Mexico was “splattering oil out its blow hole.” The obscenity of such a thing was too much for marine conservationist, author and founder/director of the Blue Ocean Insitute, Carl Safina, whose voice broke as he told the story in the middle of a lecture at the TEDxOilSpill conference. [...]

Filed under: agriculture, energy, food, natural gas, oil, soil health, water | Tagged: Amory Lovins, Gulf coast oil spill, BP, Philippe Cousteau, bioremediation, Rocky Mountain Institute, TEDxOilSpill, Carl Safina, Duncan Davidson, Kris Krug, Pinar Ozger, Darron Collins, Talon Security, Dave Gallo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution, Earth Echo International, John Wathen, Susan Shaw, Marine Environmental Research Institute, Ron Atlas, Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum, corexit, Sylvia Earle, TED Prize, Mission Blue, Mike Tidwell, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, oil derricks, Lisa Margonelli, New America Foundation, Christen Lien, @bpglobalpr, Ted Hardin, Elizabeth Coffman, Veins in the Gulf, Paul Salopek, Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge, X Prize Foundation, Peter Diamandis | 1 Comment »

The Future? Fossil Fuels Are So…Yesterday: On Post-Oil Possiblities, TEDxOilSpill, Amory Lovins, Reinventing Fire & Small People Power

Posted on June 20, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

Despite my general rule that once a day is designated for a cause, the cause is likely lost (or at least in serious trouble), I found myself rooting mightily last Saturday for Solarday. Missed it? It is only in its second year, but with global aspirations and the power of the sun on its side. [...]

Filed under: agriculture, air pollution, climate change, energy, food, innovation, natural gas, oil, oil spill, solar, transportation, water | Tagged: Amory Lovins, Bill Gates, BP, Catalytix, contraception, Daniel Nocera, efficiency, Gulf coast oil spill, microwind, negawatts, Nigeria, nuclear, oil spill, Reinventing Fire, Rocky Mountain Institute, small people, Solarday, sugar palms, TEDxOilSpill, urban agriculture, wave power, Will Allen, Willie Smits, wind power | Leave a Comment »

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Plastics: Eco-Comedy / Eco-Tragedy

Trees, Food, Pakistan & the Lessons of Medieval Monks: How Ecosystems Thinking Can (Still) Save the World

More Incentive to Clean Up the Gulf: The X Prize Foundation Announces the Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge

TEDxOilSpill: Surface Slicks, Deep Water Despair, Galaxies of Oil Platforms and Why We Really, Truly Don’t Need Oil

The Future? Fossil Fuels Are So…Yesterday: On Post-Oil Possiblities, TEDxOilSpill, Amory Lovins, Reinventing Fire & Small People Power

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