02 Mar Clean energy? Some disturbing facts and figures – by The Green Asia Group
Solar panels … A factory in China must burn more than 40kg of coal to produce a solar panel – one metre by 1.5 metres. China’s least...
28 Jun Blackwater- The rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army (Jeremy Scahill)
This is not a book you will want to read, but it is a book you should read. (Jeremy Scahill is behind this book.)...
10 Jun The (Bill) Gates Notes. Have you heard of these?
This sentence will lead you to a place where one can explore the Gates Notes (if one chooses this path of course)....
01 Aug More on Concrete Talk from The Green Asia Group
Carolyn Kenwrick, The GreenAsia Group Roughly 5 to 10 percent of global CO2 emissions are related to the manufacture and transportation of cement, a major ingredient...
30 Jul Concrete as a Plague on The Earth
Edward Mazria, Mazria Inc. USA Further info re buildings from a well-known architect. “Unknowingly, the architecture and building community is responsible for almost half of all U.S....
23 Mar READ: Obamas Plant Organic Kitchen Garden at White House
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Want to know where the presidential produce comes from? Take a walk past the White House. The answer may be planted right in...
17 Oct READ: Salt, A World History
The history of salt was the beginning of long distance food. ...
20 Sep READ: Young Indonesians Challenge the Old Order
By Stanley A. Weiss JAKARTA—Sitting down with Indonesia’s rising business stars gives a sense of the progress and perils that define the country as it marks...
16 Sep READ: Turf War
Americans can’t live without their lawns—but how long can they live with them? by Elizabeth Kolbert In 1841, Andrew Jackson Downing published the first landscape-gardening book aimed...
01 Sep READ: Freedom From Mid-East Oil
My favorite line so far is the one that says “we’re not out of oil or energy, we’re just out of oil or energy that...
