Here’s the trick, don’t mess it up in the first place. Separating fact from (science) fiction can be difficult. Hollywood takes liberties with science in the name of entertainment. Serious scientific debate about climate change has abated, but people hold strong beliefs about mankind’s impact on the earth. A recent NPR story delved into the [...]
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Add Another Superlative to China’s Growth: 10 Day Traffic Jams (Updated)
August 25th, 2010 
Justin Manger Before I get to the meat of this post, I’ll add one more crazy stat that I furtively creeped this morning from the Express Newspaper the guy next to me on the bus was reading: 1,900 cars every day are added to the streets of Beijing alone. That’s one city, in one country. Now for the real [...]
Posted in Behavior, China, Justin Manger, Sustainability, Transportation 
Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Cars 
No Comments »K-Fuel: The Answer to Dirty Coal?
August 21st, 2010 Eric Wilson Last year the website This Is Reality launched a commercial by the Coen brothers, directors of films such as Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and The Big Lebowski, about clean coal. The commercial, which can be seen below, paints a satirical picture of so-called clean coal technology. According to the IEA and cited on [...]
Five Friday Facts: Logging in Madagascar
August 13th, 2010 Justin Manger After a coup in March 2009, Madagascar’s leaders legalized exports of the nearly extinct rosewood tree. They reversed the law earlier this year but cutting continues. Rosewood is used in furniture and musical instruments $3.5 billion: value of all kinds of illegal wood shipped to the U.S. through China (much originating from Madagascar). 90%: the [...]
Five Friday Facts
June 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson The following five Friday facts come via an Economix blog post on NY Times. Carbon emissions from San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, California were the lowest among American metropolitan areas, but “are still more than four times the emissions in the brownest Chinese city (Daqing) and 10 times as high as the household [...]
Posted in China, Conservation, Eric Wilson Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Energy Conservation, New York City No Comments »Mexico Looks to Export Wind Power to US
May 20th, 2010 Eric Wilson As a follow up to a previous post about China and the clean energy economy, American Public Radio’s Marketplace carried a story on renewable energy in Baja California. Wind production on the peninsula holds potential for future development of the region. In light of news that regulators approved the United States’ first offshore wind project, [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Bio-fuels, California, Electricity Generation, Geothermal, Wind Power No Comments »“A Graphic is Worth a Thousand Words”
May 15th, 2010 Justin Manger Source: Washington Post
Posted in China, Clean Technology, Graphics, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: High Speed Rail, Trains No Comments »More Signs Point to China Leading the Second Green Revolution
May 12th, 2010 Eric Wilson It could just be that the United States will not be the leader and China will be a recipient of the US’s lack of leadership on this issue. Thomas Friedman’s op-ed from late last month, as a well as another recent New York Times op-ed, point to the clean energy sector that has blossomed in [...]
