Food (I): counting miles per bite by Kirsten Dirksen on September 4, 2007 Much of our food travels thousands of miles before reaching our plate. New foodies (locavores, 100-mile-dieters, novelists) want to reexamine …
Cork: a new wood floor without killing a tree by Kirsten Dirksen on September 2, 2007 According to the World Wildlife Founcation, Mediterranean cork forests- home to endangered species like the Iberian Lynx- are among the …
Greenvest: who is afraid of a cleantech bubble? by Kirsten Dirksen on August 30, 2007 Global warming fears, gas prices and government policies (like ethanol subsidies) are attracting even more investment in clean technologies. According …
Green collar (II): where jobs are by Kirsten Dirksen on August 29, 2007 The green economy has arrived. Its demand for workers rivals the Internet boom. Business schools are preparing alumni and politicians …
Toilet talk by Kirsten Dirksen on August 29, 2007 I crossed a line last week and made the personal political. Unintentionally. I was in a public restroom and a …
Hydrogen highways: utopia or ready by 2015? by Kirsten Dirksen on August 23, 2007 Instead of filling up at a gas, or petrol, station, perhaps by 2015 we’ll be fueling up on hydrogen. Some …
Rise of the green collar worker (I) by Kirsten Dirksen on August 22, 2007 In the US, Europe and even China, labor classes can no longer be reduced to just blue collar (industrial) and …
Body Time: the original Body Shop keeps it small by Kirsten Dirksen on August 6, 2007 Body Time opened their doors in 1970 as a small shop where soaps were hand-cut and customers brought back their …
What Jimmy Carter could have told us by Kirsten Dirksen on July 29, 2007 In June of 1979, US President Jimmy Carter announced his program to increase the country’s use of solar energy, including …
Praying to the Prius by Kirsten Dirksen on July 24, 2007 In those early days of hybrid ownership (though technically I have been just borrowing this gas-electric vehicle from my parents …
