Saturday, October 4, 2014

The Greendex Report

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Subsistence Farming vs Intensive Farming

These videos show the difference in farming techniques between a subsistence community in Ghana and intensively farmed land in Kansas



Monday, May 26, 2014

Solar Freakin' Roadways!

This article has been doing the rounds on Facebook this week. It is a plan to replace roads in the US with plates of tempered glass containing solar panels. Its a great idea in principle, but is still in the (late) developmental stage and would require huge investment.



Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Combating Global Warming

I'm a regular listener to the podcast 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe' and I'd highly recommend it for all scientific and critical thinkers.

In this clip a panel of scientists is discussing possible future efforts by humans to combat global warming (in other words to artificially create a negative feedback loop). They conclude that such efforts are possibly doomed to failure, and at worst might even exacerbate the situation: