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, Willie Smits, Will Allen, urban agriculture, Daniel Nocera, Gulf coast oil spill, oil spill, BP, Reinventing Fire, contraception, Solarday, wind power, microwind, wave power, Bill Gates, nuclear, Catalytix, Rocky Mountain Institute, negawatts, efficiency, small people, sugar palms, Nigeria, TEDxOilSpill | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 10, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg
On link between environmental health & public health; Rebuilding Haiti from the soil microbes up; A humanitarian aid petri dish; Jared Diamond’s checklist for collapse & Haiti as vision what could be in store for the rest of us; Charcoal cartels, Amy Smith’s better answer & Nicholas Kristof’s compost toilet tour Five years ago, in [...]
Filed under: Diaster relief, Haiti, agriculture, charcoal, earthquake, forests, innovation, reforestation, soil health | Tagged: reforestation, deforestation, Will Allen, Haiti, "Hopital Albert Schweitzer", "Haiti Timber Re-Introduction Project", HTRIP, Jared Diamond, CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Haiti Rewired, charcoal, compost toilets, urban farming, SOIL | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 23, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
The last-minute, cobbled-together, non-binding, specifics-lite COP15 “accord” managed to unify almost everyone in disappointment, though perhaps not in surprise. Many, including climatologist James Hansen and economist Jeffrey Sachs, have for months called the drawn-out politically-driven process “broken.” When there was no time to waste, time was wasted. The representative from the fast-sinking island of Tuvalu [...]
Filed under: climate change, energy, innovation | Tagged: " climate refugees, "Father Greed, climate change, COP15, James Hansen, Jeffrey Sachs, Storms of My Grandchildren, Thomas Friedman, Tuvalu | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 15, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Leave it to an 8 year-old. Specifically, the 8 year-old son of Jim Warner, managing director of design consultancy Brandimage, who took one look at a plastic bottle his dad had helped create and said, “Oh. You make trash.” Once the sting of that nasty little unvarnished truth wore off, Warner set to work to [...]
Filed under: climate change, innovation, oil, recycling, water | Tagged: 360 paper bottle, albatross, Bisphenol A, Brandimage, Chris Jordan, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Jim Warner, Message from the Gyre, plastic bottle | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 27, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
It was a wonderful little bubble while it lasted. Getting up before dawn. Dressing in easy-to-peel layers for whatever the day might bring. Walking over to Boynton-McKay, a diner of rare perfection, where the wi-fi was as reliably good as the pancakes (a boon in connectivity-challenged Camden…) Ascending the stairs and more stairs of the [...]
Filed under: agriculture, climate change, disease surveillance, energy, food, forests, innovation, lighting, maps, oil, rain forests, rapid diagnostics, recycling, reforestation, solar, transportation, visualization, water | Tagged: Pop!Tech, Willie Smits, Will Allen, urban agriculture, LEDs, Tapergy, Camden Opera House, Logan Richardson, Zoe Keating, Mark O'Connor, Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Rachel Barenblat, Ethan Zuckerman, Kristen Taylor, Derek Lomas, Playpower Foundation, $12 computer, $10 computer, Dean Ornish, Neri Oxman, Naif Al-Mutawa, The 99, Islam, stereotypes, FLAP bag, Sheila Kenneday, Timbuk2, agroforestry, Daniel Nocera, fuel cells, photosynthesis | 3 Comments »
