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Ireland and Scotland Banking on Wind Energy

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Ireland and Scotland are looking to their offshore winds as a viable renewable energy source. Scotland has committed to an ambitious target of supplying 50% of their total energy from renewable sources by 2020, and this is 1 more step towards that goal. The 2 countries have partnered on a study that ...

The End of Oil

Friday, June 27th, 2008

With oil prices topping new records almost every day this would be a good time for me to say "I told you so" several years ago when I was soap-boxing heavily about the doomed future of depending on a finite resource. But I won't gloat. My warnings in the past ...

Seeing Green

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

An optimistic look past the pollution of confusion surrounding Global Warming In recent conversations and online discussions several things have become increasingly clear to me about the Global Warming debate. The most tragic of these I feel, are the number of misconceptions and half-truths--created and spread by politicians and lobbyists--that are ...

Senate says “No” to drilling in Alaska… again!

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

While Big Oil and Business go toe to toe with Environmentalists, I say this issue should be a no-brainer for everyone. I'm no fan of the Oil Industry, nor am I a tree-hugger (they just aren't so fun to cuddle with)--but it seems to me there's a simple way of looking ...