renewable energy

The Third Carbon Age

Aug 9, 2013
Don’t imagine for a second that we're headed for an age dominated by renewable energy. Instead, humanity is pioneering the third great carbon era, the Age of Unconventional Oil and Gas.
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The Next Step in Equality: Genderless Bathrooms

Jun 13, 2013
Transgender people face discrimination every time they go to restrooms marked men or women; as the NSA destroys our sense of privacy, perhaps rather than looking to Orwell's "1984," we should brush up on our Kafka; meanwhile, journalist Phyllis Richman responds decades later to a misogynistic letter from a Harvard professor regarding married women pursuing graduate studies. These discoveries and more after the jump.

Sustainable Living Challenges the Swiss

May 28, 2013
An experiment to see whether citizens of one of the world's richest countries could live sustainably by drastically reducing their energy consumption has found that very few could meet the challenge.

Linked Renewable Power Systems Can Avoid Blackouts

Apr 4, 2013
Critics of renewable energy have always claimed that sun and wind are only intermittent producers and that back-up fossil fuel plants are needed to make them viable. But German engineers have proven otherwise.

The New Sputnik

May 11, 2011
In 1957, a United States shocked by the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite bounced into action to compete on the world stage. More than 50 years later, in May of 2011, the U.S. is facing a new challenge.The House of Representatives in 2011 is full of politicians who actively despise science and higher education, hate environmentalism, deny global climate change and are in the back pocket of Big Oil.

The Global Rush for Green Jobs

Jan 19, 2011
This line from a BBC article about a $150 million tidal power project that will be partially built and deployed in India speaks to the highly competitive global market for the jobs of the future: "As much of the manufacturing as possible will take place in Gujarat, taking advantage of the skills base in India's booming wind turbine industry."