January Issue of The New Colonist The January issue of The New Colonist is online and available now at www.newcolonist.com ! This month's features: Mackinac...
This story was sent to you by: Richard Risemberg ... Living on the Right Side of the Tracks ... Building near train stations, developers hope to attract buyers...
This story was sent to you by: Richard Risemberg ... Studies Support Emissions Plans ... Two independent analyses say an effort, opposed by business, to cut...
The Passing and Passion of Grandpa Al Lewis, 1911-2006 by Mitchel Cohen What a sad day ... and what an incredible, artistic and political life! I first met Al...
Richard Risemberg found this article on ClimateArk < http://www.climateark.org/ >, a project of Ecological Internet, and wanted to share it with you. **...
I thought you might be interested in this feature in Grist Magazine: Fatigue of Nations, by John Elkington, Mark Lee. What green looks like to the world's...
Hi, Here's a new project that you may find interesting. Its idea is to flip the National Endowment for Democracy -- a CIA operation which creates death squads...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4856106.stm Last Updated: Thursday, 30 March 2006, 21:59 GMT 22:59 UK Giving micropower to the people VIEWPOINT Alan...
Back in the 1970s, the Urban Solar Energy Association here in the Boston area used to do solar barn-raisings. Our follow-ups found that the households where...
Here's an unbroken link to the bicycle commuting story: http://tinyurl.com/je9uk Rick -- Richard Risemberg http://www.rickrise.com http://www.newcolonist.com ...
Looks like some hopeful goods and action will be at MN's Living Green Expo http://www.livinggreen.org Word about the event arrived w/ the following news...
From the Los Angeles Times: http://tinyurl.com/p2ndb May require registration, but it's quick and free and they don't seem to spam you. Rick -- Richard...
Another article on ethanol. The only figures given on its net energy efficiency are negative, yet the article goes on to state that "others are more...
I think it's important to be positive and look at all the alternatives subjectively. Brazil appears to be doing quite well with sugar cane based ethanol, and...
I think it is more important to be realistic about new resources. I am appreciative of the dimensional perspective in the article distributed by Mr....
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It seems to come down to how much energy is produced from crops compared to how much energy it takes to grow and process the crops into usable energy. Another...
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Isn't "looking at all the alternatives subjectively" and being "realistic about new resources" pretty much the same thing? I appreciate the article because it...
... Brazil is using the byproduct of another process, sugar-making. Ethanol production in the US is based on corn planted specifcally for conversion to...
I ran across an interesting pod cast this morning and it is pertinent to the topic of ethanol production (Canadian Dreams of Ethanol distilled from grass). I...