Quoted: MillerMcCune reported earlier on the recent emergence of tiny algae as a possible answer to the worlds woes global warming algae is not a food source, wastewater and salt water can be used for its production and its only byproducts are a livestock feed and starches that can be made into ethanol ener

Quoted: A tiny oil-eating bug that lives deep underground may allow the world's oil industry to unlock energy trapped in trillions of barrels of heavy crude, which is costly and dirty to produce using today's methods.

Quoted: A massive switch from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power plants to solar power plants could supply 69 percent of the U.S.’s electricity and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050.

Earthships from the 70s...

Quoted: Internal, non-load-bearing walls are often made of a "honey comb" of recycled cans separated by concrete. The walls are then usually thickly plastered, using the pull-tabs on the cans as a lath to hold the adobe and stucco. This is known as a tin can wall.

Outstanding blog on climate change and sustainable living by Andrew Revkin of the NY Times...

Quoted: This was the fourth such review since 1990. Progressively over that span, the panel’s reports have raised the likelihood that people, mainly by burning billions of tons of coal and oil, have been the main force responsible for global warming since 1950 and that a lot more warming, coastal retreats and shifting weather are in the offing under business as usual. (In the bargain we get some plankton-harming ocean acidification, something not anticipated originally).

Facing the political impediments to sustainabilty in China.

Quoted: In China, where coal is king, the government’s push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.

Sounds interesting!

Quoted: On October 30, The Hamilton Project at Brookings will host a two-part forum on mitigating climate change through market mechanisms and new technologies. In addition to the release of a new Hamilton Project strategy paper...

Local, organic solutions to our energy needs. Sounds promising!

Quoted: Three or four times during the growing year the lawn blooms with piles of biomass, ripe for lighting someone’s house or powering someone’s air conditioner. Think of it as the energy equivalent of the eat-local campaign.

m redot. Such a simple and brilliant idea...

Quoted: In an effort to meet a Kyoto Protocol pledge, Japan managed to cut about 1.4 million tons of CO2 emissions last year. The nation reduced summer air-conditioning use, overturning a decades-old suit and tie tradition along the way.