It has been three years to the day since our first post at 2nd Green Revolution. From that beginning, the number of visits to the site has tripled each year, reaching 100,000 last year. In welcoming people to our vision of what the future could look like, we hoped to do our part to usher [...]
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Balance: the Human Body, Economics, Evolution and the Link to Sustainability
January 1st, 2012
Justin Manger I’ve talked before about the way running “jogs” loose all kinds of thoughts and allows for connections to be made between seemingly disparate ones. The latest brain buzz came almost two months ago but I’ve only now gotten around to writing it up in some “official” form. So here goes. Sustainability can be thought of as maintaining [...]
Five Friday Facts; Quiz Edition
December 16th, 2011
Justin Manger Test your knowledge by answering these 5 questions from the Washington Post Business section. (correct answers below) 1. How much energy does an incandescent bulb waste by creating heat instead of light? 20 percent 40 percent 75 percent 90 percent 2. In 2010, what percent of crude oil used in the U.S. was imported? 32 percent 49 [...]
Legacy
December 11th, 2011
Justin Manger A few weeks ago I finished Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. Overall, I thought it was a well-written and honest account of the man and his life. There was plenty in the book that Steve Jobs would not like to read but to sugar coat or gloss-over the way Jobs was would be disingenuous. [...]
7 Billion Humans, 1 Earth
October 30th, 2011
Justin Manger I was looking up something related to Brazil for work the other day on Google Maps and while glancing over the vast expanse of thick forests in the satellite view mode, had a rapid fire series of thoughts all related to sustainability. I thought about how enormous Brazil is in terms of land area and [...]
New Writers Join 2nd Green Revolution
October 24th, 2011
Justin Manger We have recently brought two writers on board as independent contractors. Megan Stilley began writing last week and has already covered GMOs and written about Freedom Gardens. She is currently an Environmental Science graduate student at the University of Colorado-Denver. Her main interests are in food systems and agricultural sustainability and is researching food deserts in Denver County for her [...]
The Green Apple: Who Will Be the Steve Jobs of the Clean Energy Sector?
October 9th, 2011
Justin Manger Yesterday, I briefly attended the CEATEC exhibition in Tokyo that focused on electronics and had a lot of green technologies on display: solar panels, EV charging stations, new energy efficiency measures, and even a planned sustainable community. What was lacking, however, was a whole other type of electricity- the electric atmosphere found at certain events where the [...]
Review of Organic IPA from Eel River Brewing Company
October 6th, 2011
Mac Maloney After a long lay off, Revolutionary Spirits returns with its latest column reviewing a beer from Eel River Brewing Company (ERB), the first certified organic brewery in the United States. ERB is nestled in the town of Fortuna, in Humboldt County, California. Humboldt County is traditionally known for another type of herbal refreshment, however it is now home [...]
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