By Andy Mannle | Wednesday, 16 April 2008
“We are now looking at a food situation unlike any we’ve seen before,” Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute announced this morning at a press conference on the fallout from skyrocketing food prices around the world.
“We’re seeing spreading social unrest and instability in scores of countries around the world. The list of failing states is getting longer year by year, and is likely to increase dramatically as governments face potentially unmanageable shortages.”
In seven of the last eight years world grain consumption exceeded production, and carry-over stocks have dropped to a 55 day supply, the lowest ever.
With more people in the world today, and the world’s markets more closely integrated than ever, says Brown, “We are one poor harvest away from chaos.” |
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By Andy Mannle | Friday, 23 May 2008
Green Building is both a rediscovery of old technology - like siting buildings properly, and using natural sunlight and airflow to heat and cool them - and the latest high technology, like photovoltaics to provide power, smart meters to control energy use, and more efficient building materials.
But the real challenges to building green are not technological, but human.
At the recent GreenWest Expo in Los Angeles, panelists identified three of the main challenges to Green Building, and discussed ways to move the field forward. |
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By Alison Loomis | Thursday, 26 June 2008
An aging electric grid infrastructure, rising energy costs, energy efficiency state mandates, and environmental concerns are driving business, utilities, and regulators across the country to invest in the long overdue upgrade to smart grid technology instead of paying for it later.
The outdated 100-year-old electricity technology, according to expert panelists at this week's California Clean Tech Open, has not changed since the time of Thomas Edison, and has been stuck in a rut. "Nothing has been done in a 100 years to this stodgy old system, making this is a hell of an exciting time to be in business," says Don Von Dollen, IntelliGrid Program Manager. |
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