We seem to be accumulating crises at an alarming rate, lately, between the financial crisis, energy crisis, and climate crisis, along with incipient crises about which experts have been warning us, such as the government debt crisis and the looming Social Security and Medicare crises. Combine all of these and factor in the natural tendency for exaggerated predictions of disaster in an election year, and it is a wonder that we don't have more people dropping out of society to join survivalist communities in the hills. Are things really as bad as they appear, or have the aggregated uncertainti...
photo: Mike RosalesRenewable energy developers across the United States can sleep a little easy tonight. After nine (count em, nine) tries, the Senate has passed an extension of the renewable energy tax credit package which sat bobbing in the dold...
We are now in a time where renewable energy is becoming increasingly sophisticated, viable, and affordable. That is, if you're in the developed world. What if you are on the Caribbean coastal region of Nicaragua, the poorest in the country, Nicaragua...
'Ma, did you know the towers routing this call are now powered by biofuels?' Photo: Eirik NewthIn many parts of the developing world mobile phones have brought communications capabilities to places where building regular telephone lines would be impr...
