On several occasions I’ve written about the increasing visibility of electric vehicles. There was the post last fall about seeing three electric vehicles in one week and then a few months back there was the Chevy Volt plugged in at Canopy Airport Parking Lot. While laid up with a case of possible food poisoning, I [...]
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Bringing Electric Cars to the Public’s Consciousness
September 18th, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability, Transportation 
Tags: Chevy Volt, Electric Vehicles, Tesla 
No Comments »Living Within Our Ecological Means
September 11th, 2011 Eric Wilson Several years ago while attending a conference in Dallas one of the keynote speakers, a Native American from Taos, New Mexico, recounted the following story: When the government came to my tribe’s elders and offered to provide running water, the elders said “No”, we go to the river everyday to fetch our water. We see [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Farmer's Market, Food, Organic, Plan B 4.0 No Comments »Entering the Anthropocene Epoch?
September 10th, 2011 Nick Grue Geologic time periods of the past have generally been differentiated due to changes in landscape and organism populations. During some geologic time periods, certain organisms have thrived while others have faltered, and sometimes many organism falter as seen during mass extinction events. Humans first appeared during the Pleistocene epoch and have been in existence all [...]
Posted in Behavior, Guest Authors, Op-Ed, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Environment, Nick Grue No Comments »From Norweigien Oil Field to Floating Hotel: Sleep-able Escape Pod
September 7th, 2011 Justin Manger Now this is recycling. Not that you’d easily decide to spend the night in one – they cost about $100 per stay and are definitely not the most comfortable looking accommodations – but you could get your z’s in a repurposed oil rig escape pod. This is all made possible through a pretty interesting idea [...]
Black Bean Co. In Charleston Serving Fresh, Local Food
September 4th, 2011 Justin Manger Should you need a place to get away, especially from the hustle and bustle of the U.S. east coast, Charleston, S.C. should be on your list. Beaches, history, dining, golf, southern style architecture, a relaxed pace, and friendly people make the South Carolina city a nice place to vacation. Before coming to Japan, that’s exactly [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Justin Manger, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Food, Restaurants No Comments »September 2011 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
September 1st, 2011 Eric Wilson This month the calendar is chock full of events both stateside and abroad. A number of conferences center on smart grid technologies. There are also a few Public Health conferences on the agenda, one in London and the other in Brisbane, Australia which asks the question “Is Public Health Sustainable?” As with just about every [...]
Posted in Conferences, Eric Wilson, Smart Grid, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: Calendar, California, Clean Energy, Wind Power No Comments »Janus Food Works Pays Kids to Farm in Portland (Video)
August 27th, 2011 Justin Manger Under the mantra “bringing hope to people by growing and sharing healthy food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership,” the young farmers who take part in a unique program are hoping it brings a them a little cash as well. Young people from Portland, Oregon are getting paid by Janus Food Works to farm and [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Behavior, Justin Manger, Local Energy/Food, Policy, Sustainability Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Portland-Oregon, Video No Comments »The Return of Paperless Receipts
August 25th, 2011 Eric Wilson Last year 2nd Green Revolution had a series of posts on paperless receipts. The first post, “The End of Paperless Receipts?“, included a link to an article on the website Software Advice. After that initial post, there were a number of follow ups. While a local market had started asking whether or not its customers [...]
Virginia’s First Light Rail, “The Tide,” Opens in Norfolk
August 21st, 2011 Justin Manger Build it and they will come, especially if it is free. With the opening of a 7.4 mile light rail system, the crowds were out early Friday in Norfolk, Virginia to test out the new transportation option, The Tide: The Tide is the first light rail system in Virginia and marks the beginning of a new era for [...]
Posted in Green Economy, Justin Manger, Policy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: Mass Transit, Trains No Comments »Durability is the Key to Sustainability
August 20th, 2011 Eric Wilson Goods that need replacing every few years, what is known as planned obsolescence, deals a serious blow to the goals of sustainability. When a poorly made object fails, ends up in the waste stream, and leads a consumer to purchase a new widget, there are environmental ramifications for the planet and economic ones for the [...]
