Check out the video of this 2 year old girl addressing a corporate committee with a coloring of a river she is trying to save, along with her parents of course. It is a protest of a river run power project.   more »

A transcendant seal watching story. In which the "breath of fire" of a seal pup illuminates armageddon.   more »

Recent thought experiments have yielded a possible method of sending internet information encoded into a tachyon stream back in time from the future to the present. Once a device using lasers to accelerate the tachyons to travel faster than the speed of light, through a vortex, is actually constructed, it would start receiving information sent from the future immediately.   more »

The CERN proton collider, could it dissapear the Earth into a blackhole or make it a collapsed lump of strange matter?   more »

Ag and energy policy are coming together in reality, with these farm and dairy organic biogas projects. Pioneered by organic farmers, Stonyfield, and NativeEnergy. When will progressive utilities like Wisconsin Electric Power (voluntarily paying solar electric generating customers 23 cents per kwh!) and Excel Energy, integrate smart grid distributed renewable generation and storage technology with solar, wind, and biogas?   more »

All this worry about storage and baseload power has become irrelevant with studies on diversely located wind and smart grid power management. It is a holdover from anti-renewable talking points, somehow internalized by environmentalists.   more »

Too many theory laden terms, too much economics that I suspect no one really understands. I realize it is hard to explain. But if you can't explain it to the average voter, do you really in fact understand it yourself? Or is it self delusion, industry self delusion.   more »

With Hillary trying to kneecap Barack, that's the ugly rumor. She has gone "Tonya Harding" on him. it is backfiring on her though. She is losing more support because of these tabloid tactics. And now big party donors, Hillary supporters, are threatening to withdraw support if Barack gets the nomination? It would seem so.   more »

"...our current technologies cannot support both a decline in carbon dioxide emissions and an expanding global economy." What are these techologies? Are they the ones we use now in the same proportions? Mainly coal, nuclear, gas, and oil? With a tiny percentage of wind, solar, water, geo heat exchange, primitive grid load timing, and so forth.   more »

The case for replacing most air travel with high speed, composite airplane like trains that fly in tubes built in freeway median strips. More than enough renewable electricity to power them can come from solar panels mounted on the tubes. This would save huge amounts of GHG from car and air travel.   more »

This really looks interesting. Most carbon offset plans, where mainly the rich and green minded like the band in this Grist article , assuage their guilt at producing all that carbon GHG disaster. By buying carbon offsets. Seem pretty phony. The money supposedly goes to renewable energy projects. Does it really?   more »

Why is CCS, pumping CO2 from burning coal underground into old oil wells, one of the most widely supported (politically and in mass media), but most foolish, unworkable boondoggles? Now abandoned in Illinois, namely the FutureGen "clean" coal demonstration power plant project.   more »

This all makes so little sense in practice. Economists hatch theories to create profits, even for non-profits, Non-profit orgs just invest their proceeds in more advertising and air travel for their executives, instead of handing it out to investors. Does any carbon ever get "offset"?   more »

Not only is gas guzzling "clean" coal derived fuel technologically problematic, titanically expensive, and twice as GHGassy as oil based gas guzzling. There is not enough coal to make it sustainable. Present electric power generation with coal to liquid, would use up coal reserves in less than 50 years.   more »

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoes new coal plants and pushes wind power and conservation forward. Sexy enough to be VP? Yep.   more »

I had to stop the video. But still it was necessary to post the link. I guess cruelty to dogs is the most identifiable for humans. Cruelty to other humans does not seem to have the same effect. Strange but true.   more »

And he has his surogates on GHG climate policy already clearing looholes in the ripe for hedge fund corruption, cap and trade schemes. No technological solutions necessary, no increased vehicle mileage standards, no investment in renewables and conservation. Let the hedge funds "hedge" climate risk. No problem.   more »

Check out this graph from 2004? It puts the cost of windpower about even with coal and less than nuclear, with natural gas a bit cheaper. How much have fuel costs increased since 2004? Double for natural gas, nuclear fuel, and coal? That is a pretty good guesstimate.   more »

How can the Chamber of Commerce spread propaganda that curing environmental degradation is too expensive and will doom our economy? Even in the face of a ban on salmon fishing on the west coast? This way.   more »

That looks like it might be the race, no not Nader as VP but as spoiler to help siphon votes from Barack. It's gonna be rough. Already the tabloid political media has reduced it all to no-issue, all-bullshit race war.   more »

Water conservation starting right here in the US, that could head off the war, famine, and disease from the migration of 100s of millions of people who now rely on melting glaciers for their water. Sexy. RFK jr's efforts to these ends? Not so much.   more »

They are claiming plugin hybrids will use more water than gas guzzlers? Whew, give us a break. Blame water waste from big coal and nuclear power on green cars?   more »

Dave roberts from Grist encounters an exxonmob mati harri? At the WSJ environmental forum. Some of my women friends have warned me on this point. Self loathing is a powerful motivating force for badness, for either sex.   more »

Finally the right solution for offshore wind is brought up at a Cape Wind hearing. Floating offshore 23 miles out of sight out of mind. I'm going to check this out and see if they have considered adding wave or ocean current features to these floating wind systems.   more »

These bushco cronies are doing for US roads what Halliburton is doing to Iraq. Next they'll be selling them off. Prepare to get pulled over by the halliburton highway patrol. Naked cheerleader pyramids and waterboarding along with traffic tickets? Why not?   more »

Civilian Conservation corps to save our forests, direct subsidies for renewables and conservation. Instead of Hoover Dam, Teddy Roosevelt Prairie National Park and wind farm. No more corporate welfare and hedge fund disaster bailouts.   more »

Now realtors for the bushco administration can sell public conservation land under the guise of environmental prservation? The government just can't afford to run the parks anymore, just sell out to hedge funds.   more »

Dave Roberts of Grist , no other reporting on the environment or anything else like this, in recent memory. Cap and trade is scary though   more »

Compare the fireside chats of FDR to Barack's speech on race. Now let's see how he does on foreign policy, national security, and the oil wars. Then tomorow on the economy and environment.   more »

As he lowers rates faster and more frequently, and now loans 200 billion to investment firms, and guarantees buy outs of one investment firm by another with another 30 billion. It's like Bernanke is from another planet, just landed, and has never heard of the fed or the US and world economy.   more »

Another in a continuing explanation, trying to get the concept across that turning biomass into fuel and burning it in a car is not carbon neutral. I've tried this hundreds of times and I've yet to see someone actually understand it. Here it goes again.   more »

The problem is that even with waste treatment, aneroebic digestion, the compounds in question, hormones, antibiotics, and so forth, are soluble in water and pass right through the system. Right into the ground water.   more »

Only subsidy diversion, taking huge tax breaks away from multinational energy monopolists, like the exxonmob, and diverting that money directly to homeoners, farmers, and small business for putting up solar panels, wind, and biogas and driving plugin hybrids charged off of a renewable smart grid can stand up to wing nut shrieks of "No new taxes!"   more »

It's a start, along with an energy policy almost exclusively featuring boondoggle pork program fuel farming and flex fuel vehicles, one mention of plugin hybrids. That is progress. Real GHG free kwh powered cars charged up from a renewable smart grid. Progressive corporations like Xcel energy are building renewable smart grid technology on their own. Maybe their lobbyists could get a chance to talk to our candidate?   more »

Check out this comment from a farmer. Real grass fed beef is a very profitable, high quality specialty product. Of course mass marketed big box culture will never be interested. Local is all we really can count on. Farmers and eaters. Savor your food, your journey, and the great spirit that fills the world with light.    more »

One theory is that their public service exam system was scammed. It was the heart of their efficient empire when it worked correctly, promoting the best and most dilligent. How was their system scammed?   more »

Now that the horror of the Valentine's day jinx is a month behind, time for an uplifting romantic masterpiece.   more »

This stuff is worth a fortune to cosmetics makers if it could be sold. The best part is that if spare whale spit was collected from the ocean, then the market in ambergris from whale killing could be ended.   more »

Great bike! Now substitute an inflatable clear plastic pod for the wind screen for crash and weather protection. And two rear wheels for most commuters, but that would take more train space too. For the adventurous this is perfect.   more »

Feeding cows to cows We all knew they never stopped doing this, right? What would be suitable punishment for those responsible? Boot them out of government, so they can be lobbyists? Yep. That'll learn 'em.   more »

Mob exterminators How it works is: If you don't have bugs before they get there to sell you their services, you will after you turn them down. Could these corpora-fiends be creating a strain of agrichem resistant farmers? Organic farmers with solar powered robots? And biodigestors that turn farm waste into power and organic fertilizer?    more »

Aerobic digestion, composting toilets, would stop these compounds entering the water. And it saves huge amounts of water too.   more »

This is taking far too long. Floating wind/wave would not face this kind of opoosition. It doesn't require seabed construction/destruction and can be located far enough offshore to be invisible from the coast.   more »

Solve GHG climate disaster with new taxes on carbon emmisions? In a full fledged global economic disaster, which we are now in the midst of, any new tax on anything will not last long.   more »

It's nice to see the phrases I helped to coin entering the bloggerel lexicon. "Free marketeer" (kinda like "mouseketeer") and "think tankers". But this debate between wether righter than right wing nuts or more moderate wing nuts like Immelt are right on cap and trade has strained this new terminology.   more »

Dolphin/human lifeguard teams protecting swimmers from sharks? Rescuing swimmers and boaters in trouble? Rescuing turtles and other wildlife from nets? This functional interspecies communication, human to dolphin to whale could be the key to rescuing ocean life itself.   more »

Now Lutz is touting all electric lithium battery 300 mile range cars? Another dream to divert the attention. From real technology that is affordable now, the plugin hybrid.   more »

Sound impossible? Well... It's not. By cutting subsidies for carbon emmision intense energy, the cost of that energy will rise. The corporate right will call it a tax. We will call it cutting corrupt corporate welfare voted in by bribed politicians.   more »

Carbon based energy just went up again in the form of coal prices, natural gas and of course gasloine and diesel prices are already on a tear. There's a tax, huge profits for these industries, budget/mortgage breaking burden for families.   more »

"Free" market propaganda assumes that we have about the same understanding of math that dinosaurs did? Yep, that's about right.   more »

Put in terms of cents per kwh of energy from manure from dairy cows and cost per pound of milk for organic feed. And extra cost to consumers.   more »

Only wealthy families with investments in hedge funds that continually drive the price inflastion in energy will be able to afford ever rising home energy costs. This and rising gasoline prices and rising food prices and rising healthcare costs, how to escape this looming crisis?   more »

More on organic dairy farming and business. And the nature of capitalism.   more »

A discussion of philosophical frustration with social revolution? Well maybe.   more »

A better way to model the organic dairy farming and distribution business is needed. Bankruptcy is here for even the most successful organic farmers who are the leaders in their specialty.   more »

How to make the Iraq war less taxing on mother earth? After the biggest dirty bombing (tons of depleted uranium) campaign in history? The only way is to win the oil wars once and for all.   more »

Why do environmentalists feel we are the first to face up to the blood thirsty mob? The culture war represented now by the dimbulb limboobs and their fearless leaders, has gone on and on down through history.   more »

I entered this contest some time ago, but no check yet. Branson was offering 25 mill for a process that would actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere. My new plan. Make steel with solar power and substitute CO2 for the coal as a carbon source.   more »

But bush is the David Brenner of presidential comedians. All his jokes are based on factual mistakes, that just is not very amusing. Laugh at the funny chimp, haha.   more »

Well I thought we could be happy that Hillary had some infitesimal chance after the Ohio and Texas wins. But the mistakes continue, and I think her latest one is fatal. Her meat headed campaign strategists must have assumed the 3 am ad worked?   more »

Large solar thermal plants on desert wilderness land to power obscenely wasteful cities like Las Vegas? Not a good idea, put them on factory roofs, or already devestated industrial sites instead.   more »

Finally, an excuse to use a foxnews link. A feller figured out how to get rich getting internet porn addicted schmucks to donate money to women who want implants. Who could cover this story more effectively than fox? Well..Colbert of course.   more »

It would appear to be the case, since he is claiming that Wired, the paper magazine is more GHG friendly than Wired, the web version. He says the paper version stores carbon in the landfill?   more »

Duuhbya touting cellulosic ethanol..again. Remember the switchgrass comment in his SOTU speech? Are most environmentalists much further along in realizing the fatal GHG flaw of guzzling crops and spewing them out the tailpipe?   more »

The 10 commandments delivered by a hop head on DMT?!? Charles Heston is not going to like this. Ayahuasca's active ingredients inpired Moses?   more »

What is the role of (bio)diesel in a green transportation revolution? i think this hybrid has gone wrong, VW ought to go with the parallel hybrid (electric plugin rear axle drive, front wheel drive ICE) Audi design hybrid for now. Then move onto this...   more »

Hillary stole Barack's "Yes we can!' Now it's "Yes she can!". The comeback kid phenomenon communicable?   more »

This film is a tonic for romantic morass. And this is the season for that. "Sleeping Dogs Lie".   more »

Carbon content milk labeling to cure climate disaster? Turn the food of life into a numbers game and you turn life itself into a numbers game. Quality becomes secondary. Life with hollow status seeking lack of any real value system becomes the norm.   more »

The extremely garbled, delusional description of GHG climate disaster and it's solution on a Letterman appearance by Tom Friedman.   more »

Agribizz experts claim that cellulosic ethanol, the never produced miracle to save fuel farming, needs $1.55 per gallon in subsidies to be profitable. I read someone figured they could get 5 gallons/bucks per bale of hay, for instance, turned into fuel. So if government adds another 8 bucks per bale it pays?   more »

It used to be that revering the forests meant you trusted and respected forestors. Corporate bottomline logging has taken over forestry. A new CCC directed by the good old forestry philosophy we knew as kids could reunite environmenalists and forestors.   more »

A modest proposal to motivate male voters in 2016. Inspired by Tina Fey. Just a suggestion, please take it under advisement.   more »

Free the grid, free the chickens (and other animals), free the soil (from chemical death), free the people. Cooperatively, peacefully.. a nonviolent re-evolution, Ghandi with a solar panel and a smart grid chip.   more »