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Antarctic Ice Increasing

You wouldn't think so if you read recent press reports. Just like this time last year, the global press is bombarding the pub...

Reforesting Reduces Droughts

A recent article in New Scientist by Fred Pearce entitled "Rainforests may pump winds worldwide" describes a new meteorolo...

Tea Parties & Environmentalism

Earlier this week, on April 15th, 2009, not coincidentally the day each year when tax returns are due from America's workers...

Malthusians & Raindancers

Published in 1968 "The Population Bomb" became an enormously influential book, postulating, among other things, that humanit...

The Abundance Choice

The prevailing challenge facing humanity when confronted with resource constraints is not that we are running out of resource...

Editor-at-Large Posts

Designing Drought-Resistant

Droughts are a farmer's worst nightmare: Crops meant for the dinner table wither away in the dry heat leaving people hungry a...

Healing Plastic

Everyone has scraped or cut themselves at one point or another. Once a finger has an unfortunate encounter with the edge of a...

Reducing Animal Populations with

There is one animal that drivers fear more than any other: the deer. More than 1.5 million deer find their ways in front of c...

One Machine Crushes Cancer and

Cancer is a terrible disease that changes the life of anyone it touches. One incredible individual diagnosed with non-Hodgkin...

Bristol Creates Robots that Feed

We live in a world of technology. Our kids grow up with computers as one of their best friends. They even mature together: Th...

Guest Editor Posts

Capitol Hill Gets Realistic with

It didn�t command headlines but an important piece of legislation passed recently that involves water research. The House of...

Federal Stimulus and Cleantech

No doubt, cleantech companies were upbeat when the White House stimulus package allocated 13 percent of the total $104 bi...

Is Nuclear Power Renewable?

As a physicist, my belief is that one of the reasons that intelligent energy policies have not gained sufficient traction is ...

Bioethanol: Regional Scourge

Researchers at the University of Minnesota reported recently that the production of ethanol fuelstocks may consume as much as...

R&D: Betting on Mistakes

There's no better way to take the pulse of innovation than to survey R&D spending. And there's no better time than during...

Recent Energy Posts

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Is Nuclear Power Renewable?
Bioethanol: Regional Scourge
R&D: Betting on Mistakes
Smart Grid on Your Radio
One Machine Crushes Cancer and Bu...
Biofuel Myths and Realities
Bristol Creates Robots that Feed...
Wind-Turbines Come with Unexpecte...
Low-Hanging Fruits of Efficiency
Onsite Waste-to-Energy
Hydropower in Kyrgyzstan
Smart Grid & Smart Cars
Turning On Solar Thermal Power
California's Renewable Electricity

Recent Civilization Posts

The Climate Alarm Industry
Capitol Hill Gets Realistic with...
Antarctic Ice Increasing
Global Warming & Greentech
Reforesting Reduces Droughts
Tea Parties & Environmentalism
Bioethanol: Regional Scourge
R&D: Betting on Mistakes
Malthusians & Raindancers
Funding Greentech Innovation
The Abundance Choice
Revolutionary Water Sensors
Death of the California Dream
Smart Growth, or Green Bantustans?
Carbon Taxes & Public Sector Pens...

Recent CleanTech Posts

Federal Stimulus and Cleantech In...
Is Nuclear Power Renewable?
R&D: Betting on Mistakes
Removing Toxic Metals from Water
Funding Greentech Innovation
Healing Plastic
GM's Volt & Global Lithium Reserves
Revolutionary Water Sensors
Nano Coatings Stem Water-Pipe Clogs
Hydropower from Old Washing Machi...
Electrovaya & the Maya-300
Eliminating Microscopic Particula...
Biofuel Myths and Realities
Bristol Creates Robots that Feed...
Sustainable High Density

Recent Nature Posts

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Global Warming & Greentech
Reforesting Reduces Droughts
Bioethanol: Regional Scourge
Malthusians & Raindancers
Removing Toxic Metals from Water
Revolutionary Water Sensors
Nano Coatings Stem Water-Pipe Clogs
Hydropower from Old Washing Machi...
One Machine Crushes Cancer and Bu...
Bacteria-Powered Recovery of Toxi...
Onsite Wastewater Treatment
Algalita - Shrinking The World's...
Trees Water & People
BioVigilant-Always Know What You'...