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A New Wave of Oil Sources: Part 1 – The Arctic
Understanding where we will get our oil from, the costs and benefits associated with these new locations, and the overall feasibility of these new production methods are all essential factors that...
View ArticleObsession Over Oil: Exploration in Kurdistan
The Kurdistan region of Iraq, which is run by an autonomous government often at odds with Baghdad, has attracted the interest of big oil companies such as Exxon Mobil and, most recently, Chevron....
View ArticleArctic Drilling on the Agenda
Good news! For those of you who thought that embarrassing delays and equipment issues would cause Shell to forgo this year’s oil exploration in Arctic Alaskan waters, you were sadly mistaken....
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BMW Keeps Mother Nature in Mind
In today’s automotive world, efficiency is in (as long as you don’t have to sacrifice the creature comforts Americans have come to embrace), and BMW has proven that you can successfully pair...
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All Charged Up With No Place To Go
Last week Toyota announced that they have decided to scale back the distribution plans of their all-electric vehicle (EV), the eQ. Initially slated to sell several thousand of the vehicles per year,...
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Resurgence of the Bicycle
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car...
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Studying Sandy: Turning the Tide on Climate Change
Hurricane Sandy gave us a good shellacking, no doubt. But now that power has returned to the Northeast, allowing for a slow but steady road to recovery, we can forget about those dismal three weeks...
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California Spurs Electric Cars: WSJ article
Fiat 500e battery-powered car “Chrysler Group LLC next week plans to unveil an unusual automobile—an electric car that doesn’t stand a chance soon of turning a profit and is unlikely to draw many...
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Copper Ban To Be Reintroduced in January, 2013
The people of New York are ready to Give Water a Brake! and see a law passed that will ban copper and other hazardous materials from brake pads in automobiles. Every time you hit the brake pedal when...
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Dennis Weaver: Hollywood’s Greatest Environmentalist
“If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.”...
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The Totalitarian of Telecommuting
Marissa Mayer, the chief executive of Yahoo, made headlines recently for her views on telecommuting (as well as motherhood). On February 22, Yahoo sent a memo to their employees asking that all...
View ArticleCanada’s Tar Sands: A Sticky Situation
In today’s New York Times, Thomas Homer-Dixon, a professor of global governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, published a terrific opinion piece about the environmental impact of...
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