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• ExxonMobil’s Economic Outlook & Implications for Developing Countries

  

  ExxonMobil might not be the best source of unbiased energy projections, but its 2013 Energy Outlook to 2040 gauges the progress of several inevitable trends tha... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Talk of Distant Crises from Atop Our Thrones

  

  I spent last weekend participating in a spectacularly ironic affair. Graduate students from all over the country got together to share ideas about how to solve... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• “Livability” Found: College Towns

  

  I love Ann Arbor, MI. There, I said it. As an urban planner from a large urban metropolitan region like Washington, DC, I am a little ashamed to say that. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Obama Takes Steps to Fight Climate Change With and Without the Help of Congress

  

  President Obama appears to be taking steps to fight climate change with and without the help of Congress. This last Friday, March 15th, Obama addressed a crowd... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Book Review: Alan Weisman’s Gaviotas

  

  Upon finishing the Overture, the preface essentially, to Alan Weisman’s Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, I was a bit depressed. Here was a book about ... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Sensationalism, Scare Tactics, and Climate Change

  

  On a recent trip I turned on the television at the hotel and The Day After Tomorrow was on. I avoided watching it while it was in the theaters, and then on DVD. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Book Review: David Suzuki’s Tree: A Life History

  

  Over the past three weeks I read David Suzuki’s 2004 book Tree: A Life History. It yielded one post prior to this and a few Tweets here and there, and, now... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• We Just Aren’t Getting It

  

  I feel like we keep talking about sustainability and how to solve the sustainability issue as a society but we aren’t really getting it. Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Protected Bike Lanes Benefit You, the Economy, and the Environment

  

  Cities across the country are building protected bike lanes, finding that they promote exercise and economic development while offering a clean alternative... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Would We Be Missed?

  

  In Alan Weisman’s poetic work that describes the recovery of a planet in the sudden absence of people, images of a wild no longer held at bay by the beating of... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Japan Appears to Be Returning to Nuclear Power

  

  Citizens uncomfortable with return to the status quo Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 CURRENT, ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• The World’s Greenest Office Building — A Participatory Act

  

  Seattle is abuzz with the pending opening on Earth Day (April 22) of the Bullitt Center, which is considered to be the world’s greenest commercial building.... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• G. Schneider & Sohn

  

  Company Wheat beers of all varieties have gained in popularity in recent years, as their fruity, tangy taste compliments almost any meal and appeals to a vast... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Dispatches from the Bus: That New Bus Smell

  

  I got on a bus (an empty one) the other night and it had what can only be referred to as “new bus smell.” It’s not quite new car smell, but in the general... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Ag-Gag Laws

  

  I find Ag-Gag laws absolutely ridiculous. There are many ag-gag laws in effect already but the most recent laws are making it illegal to videotape animal abuse... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Hybrids Get a Makeover at Geneva Auto Show

  

  Does anyone remember the original Toyota Prius or Honda Insight? Not many of us want to. Though technological feats on paper, they performed less convincingly i... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Review: Watercourse Foods

  

  Watercourse Foods is a restaurant in Denver, CO. It is a great place to go for a bite to eat, especially since it only serves vegetarian/vegan options. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Solar Industry Appears to Be Booming, but Don’t Take Shell’s Word For It

  

  Europe’s largest oil company, Royal Dutch Shell, recently released a new report that looks over half a century into the future and found a surprising outcome:... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Waste Not: Making a Game out of Trash

  

  Crowdfunding has become a major pipeline for raising money. Potential investors can give to projects that they support before they launch and help make them a... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Clean Energy and Sustainability Events March 2013

  

  With sequestration upon us, it will be interesting to see where renewable energy’s future lies. Many of the cuts have been to military expenditures, but... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT