This past Saturday afternoon, after doing my dance duty at the annual "Dancing in the Street" at Grand Center, across from Powell Symphony Hall, I wandered the booths of the adjacent "Green Homes and Renewable Energy Festival" going on in Grandel Square behind the stage. There were plenty of solar…
How can expensive gasoline save lives? An analysis of yearly vehicle deaths compared to gas prices found death rates drop significantly as people slow down and drive less. If gas remains at $4 a gallon or higher for a year or more, traffic deaths could drop by more than 1,000…
Al Gore said it starkly: it's time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new dirty coal plants. If you’re a young person, looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now and not done, I believe we’ve reached the stage where…
A new book is in press, and will be released in a month. The author of the BadAstronomy blog, Phil Plait has written "Death From the Skies: These Are the Ways the World Will End!" That's him, exhibiting typical Ivory Tower Professorial reserve as he eyes his pre-release copy (click…
According to John McCain, Sara Palin "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America." Here's Tom Tomorrow's response: Really? Sarah Palin knows more about energy than, say, anyone in the Department of Energy, thousands of Ph.Ds in academia, or the CEOs of dozens of…