Reinventing Transportation by Day, Making Music By Night
Joan Ogden is pretty satisfied with her life these days, except that she doesn’t get out much to perform. Ogden is a musician with a wildly eclectic range: she has, during a decades-long career as a serious amateur, played guitar, mandolin, bouzouki and oud (a sort of Middle Eastern flute) in bands devoted to rock, blues, international folk music, … Read More
Africa’s Great Green Wall Against Climate Change Begins
Senegal's capitol city Dakar sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean on a peninsula. It's at least a thousand miles to the Sahara desert yet the air today is so thick with sand that the tops of buildings disappear in a sandy haze. It's the worst sand storm in a year and people here are worried thatclimate change will cause these events to be more… Read More
NY Times’ Mark Bittman Praises ‘Global Weirdness’
Mark Bittman made his mark as a food writer for the New York Times, and now that he’s also a columnist for the paper’s Opinion section, he still writes plenty about food. Just like Paul Krugman, who was hired to write about economics but branched out to a much wider range of topics, Bittman isn’t a one-note thinker… Read More
Waking up With Roker, Lemonick & ‘Global Weirdness’
Fans of Al Roker, or Climate Central, or both, take note! Climate Central’s Michael Lemonick will be on The Weather Channel’s “Wake Up With Al Wednesday morning between 6 and 6:30 a.m., and again on the show’s 8 to 8:30 a.m. half-hour. … Read More
Global Fight For Natural Resources ‘Has Only Just Begun’
Business & academic leaders gathered at the Resource 2012 conference to discuss the growing battle for natural resources.… Read More
Thai Turbines Power a Country that Isn’t Windy
“I know that 70 percent of the area in the world has a low wind speed. I thought, if we want to promote the wind machine, 70 percent is a lot of the world, says Dr. Wirachai Roynarin (or Dr. Roy as he is more commonly known). Dr. Roy is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at RMUTT in Bangkok and owner of Prapai Technologies, a company … Read More
Wind and Tulips and Success in North Holland
“If I only grew potatoes and onions, then I wouldn’t speak with so many people, says Jaap van der Beek. “You speak so often to these people because we all have the same interest. That interest is to build a big wind turbine. Jaap van der Beek has been harvesting the wind for over 15 years, and his 850kw turbine powers hundreds of homes. He lives… Read More
UN Calls for New Way to Measure Sustainable Wealth
It makes little sense to talk about growth if it’s not sustainable. That’s why the United Nations called for a new index at the Rio+20 Summit that seeks to change the way prosperity is measured.… Read More
