While visiting Salt Lake City this week, I rode one of UTA Trax’s electric light rail cars. I didn’t have a place to go or somewhere I had to be at the time. I just wanted to go for a ride because an electric streetcar is fun to ride for a clean energy enthusiast. We [...]
David Mackay’s new book is a great resource for preparing for life after petroleum. Read Mapawatt’s review of the book. You can buy it on Amazon or download it for free. Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
Over the past year, I’ve researched ways in which I can simplify my life in a healthy, organic way. It involves getting back to older ways of life. Living before fast-food, frozen meals and preservatives. We’re raising fruits and vegetables in a garden in our yard and frequenting organic farmer’s markets near our home on [...]
In a November special issue of the journal Ecology, a group of scientists report that if current patterns of change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans continue, alterations of ocean circulation could occur on a global scale, with potentially dramatic implications for the world’s climate and biosphere. Charles Greene of Cornell University and colleagues [...]
You can search and find many blogs or pick up most magazines and read articles on the future of ground transportation and how its use of petroleum adversely affects the environment. The cost of petroleum is near the top of the list of conversation starters as consumers around the globe deal with the doubling and [...]
I am often a skeptic of theories until I can read enough information to support a logical conclusion that the theory is true or false. Climate change was one of those theories that I wondered if it was really true. I watched a Youtube video of a young scientist who used standard logic to determine [...]
I think it’s fitting that I start out the first of my blog entries with a reading recommendation. In order to understand how to begin weaning yourself off of petroleum,it’s important to understand how it all started. Internal Combustion by Edwin Black chronicles our use of energy from the beginning of time. Most importantly, he [...]
