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• New Belgium

  

  Company New Belgium, makers of Fat Tire, is one of the most popular brands in the craft beer market…number 3 to be exact, only behind industry stalwarts Boston... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Peer Pressure, the Good Kind

  

  Opower, which we profiled earlier, recent appeared in a New York Times article about the influence of peers and peer pressure on behavior. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Book Review: Food Fray

  

  Genetically modified foods (GMOs) are a hot button issue. If you care about organic food then you are against them. If you are a corporation producing them, the... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts: Cost of Environmental Degradation to China

  

  The following facts come from a piece in the New York Times on the cost of the break-neck pace China’s economic growth is having on the environment. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• April Clean Energy and Sustainability Events

  

  Nothing conjures up the ideal life quite like Hawaii, which has the highest ranking in the most recent well-being index. Despite the erroneous name of the... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Remembering Defeat to Defend Against Another

  

  The mandated labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods remains a pipe dream within US borders. But the topic continues to simmer on socio-political agendas. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• New Hydrogen Catalyst May Finally Make Stored Renewable Energy A Reality

  

  A common tactic for those opposed to renewable energy is to remind everyone that solar panels don’t produce energy when the sun is down, and wind turbines... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Tesla Turns a Profit

  

  Luxury electric-car maker Tesla Motors reported a profit for the first quarter of 2013, the first profitable quarter since the maker of $70,000 EVs went public... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Japanese Forestry: Beautifully Overdone

  

  April 1 arrives at what is usually the peak time for cherry blossoms in Japan. Canopies of pink and white blossoms cover parks and brighten up streets, drawing... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Writers Spotlight: Stephen Wade

  

  Here is a continuation of various trivia and tidbits about the people that bring you news, analysis, and opinion on 2nd Green Revolution. We shift the... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Cheap Energy and the Future of Renewables

  

  I recently read Alan Weisman’s Gaviotas on the bus. Numerous tweets resulted from the first few chapters and now this post. Weisman relates the story of how... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Dispatches from the Bus: Holier Than Thou

  

  Being stuck in traffic has got to be one of the biggest wastes of resources (human capital, time, machinery – cars, fossil fuel, mental energy, etc). I’ve been... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Approving the Keystone Pipeline

  

  I am disappointed that the Senate passed approval for the Keystone XL Pipeline construction. But am I really surprised? No. I guess you could say I am pretty... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Deal to Export U.S. Shale Gas Fuels Fracking Debate

  

  American shale gas will heat 1.8 million homes in the United Kingdom by 2018, according to a deal between Cheniere Energy and U.K.-based Centrica PLC. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• When Science Gives Trends Purpose

  

  I, among fellow students in my graduate program, have had the recent pleasure of learning about the ‘ecology of managed ecosytems’ from the most cited... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Sustainability and Community Financing

  

  The value of bottom-up, community-driven leadership is a theme one constantly encounters when looking at success stories in sustainability. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Rogue Ales – Taking Care of the Fishermen

  

  The Company The Pacific Northwest has been one of the hotbeds of the recent craft beer revolution. However, Oregon has been a central hub for craft brewing for... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Lockheed Martin Awarded Patent for Desalination

  

  In a sign that security may best be achieved not through militarization, but rather ensuring access to the basic needs for life (food, water, shelter), defense... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts: A Warmer and Wetter World

  

  Two trends in the atmosphere – that globally the air is getting warmer and wetter – are increasing the chance of heat waves, downpours, and other extreme... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Summer Challenge

  

  I know summer is still a few months away but I have been thinking how to make my life more environmentally friendly and sustainable. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT