Permaculture: beyond the garden by faircompanies on November 8, 2007 The movement has spread from agricultural design to a way to construct more self-sufficient homes and communities. We visit the …
West Coast Green: green building on display by Kirsten Dirksen on October 23, 2007 With a sold-out crowd of nearly 9 thousand people, the inaugural West Coast Green tradefair made history as the largest …
Smart bikes: bike-sharing redux by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2007 In cities like Paris, Barcelona and Vienna, residents use a smarter generation of bike-sharing programs. Now North American cities like …
Organized protest: civil obedience? by BioDieselHauling on October 10, 2007 Ever seen those fundamentalist evangelical christian fanatics gathered at gay parades and abortion clinics? They gather up a good group …
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 …
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 …
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 …
El coche en EEUU (visto por un europeo sin coche) by Nicolás Boullosa on August 1, 2007 El libro Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser, 2001), un reportaje novelado a la antigua usanza (léase como en la corriente …
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 …
The cleantech explosion: following the green by Kirsten Dirksen on July 24, 2007 Investment in cleantech has been growing steadily since venture capitalists began to put their money here 10 years ago, but …