The “hockey stick” is a line graph that’s become a superstar. The diagram is embedded at the center of the war between climate change believers and deniers. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (Columbia University Press) is the story of the graphic told by one of the scientists who […]
The six-story, $30 million Bullitt Center in Seattle is a veritable crystal ball for what commercial office buildings will look like in the future.
New Worries for New Yorkers: The Spectra Pipeline Under Construction in New York City—including Tribeca & Chelsea—Poses Serious Dangers
A Review of the Book: The Inquisition of Climate Science by James Lawrence Powell
A Review of the book What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel.
CAN YOU SUSHI? Eden Organic has lots of non-traditional baskets that would make for fun Valentine’s gifts. One of our favorites is the Eden Sushi Basket ($65), a wicker basket filled with everything you need to make sushi, including Lundberg Family Farms organic white sushi rice and from Eden’s line: a bamboo sushi mat, wasabi […]
It would be nice to be able to rank companies, to know exactly which are good stewards of the environment and have beneficial social policies.
An airport is one of the last places where you expect to connect with nature. But that’s how it goes in California’s Silicon Valley. At the Mineta San José International Airport, real-time images of a wilderness area less than 10 miles away are wirelessly transmitted to a series of 42-inch LCD monitors. Nighttime displays might […]
Plants don’t need gravity to grow, according to a new study out of the University of Florida (UF). When study authors Anna Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl of UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences monitored images of small, white Arabidopsis thaliana seeds growing both on Earth and in nutrient-rich gel in zero-gravity orbit, they […]
There’s a whole lot of eco-friendly undies (underwear) out there for men and women these days…
