Review: Who Killed the Electric Car?

I recently reviewed Who Killed the Electric Car? for Spectrum Magazine. North Americans love murder-mysteries. Evidence Exhibit 1: an episode of CSI airs almost every night of the week. Whodunit? What was the motive? Will the perpetrator be apprehended? Was there a cover-up or conspiracy? And most importantly, was it Colonel Mustard in the kitchen [...]

The Time is Now — By Raintree

A long-time friend recently wrote a passionate, poetic and prophetic essay. Here is a portion of it republished with permission. Below the article is a link to her complete essay at myspace.com. Links have been added to key words without input from the author. We’re at a time in our history that we need to [...]

Environmental Film Festival

I am fortunate to have friends who like to share. Allow me to comment on six films and programs they have shared with me over the past few weeks. In November of 2007, a group of us watched An Inconvenient Truth for our community movie night. After that contentious evening, one person began collecting documentaries [...]

Unintended Consequences – Corn & the Zone of Death

A few years ago, corn was the poster child for sustainable energy; now it makes headlines that sound like lousy movies. The basic argument said that filling our cars and trucks with corn-based ethanol would reduce our dependence on foreign oil by providing a domestic source of renewable energy. But new technologies often have unintended [...]

Top Ten Good-News Tidbits

In a world where cynicism and discouragement have a way of speaking louder than words at times, it’s essential to tune in to the good news (without turning a deaf ear to the very real problems around us). And as is the case everywhere where despair has a voice, there is also abundant good news [...]

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