Williamsburg
The Domino Sugar Refinery was the first refinery of the American Sugar Refining Company. It processed more than half of the sugar sold in the…
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Urbanisation can be good for the environment
Urbanisation has never resonated stronger among countries – developed and developing alike – than now. While the recently documented New Urban Agenda (Habitat III) posits…
What rural Alaska can teach the world about renewable energy
I flew into Unalakleet, Alaska, on a late fall day. With about 700 people, Unalakleet is large by rural Alaska standards and serves as a…
Argentina’s Never-ending Environmental Disaster
Is it possible to spend 5.2 billion dollars to clean up a river which is just 64-km-long and get practically no results? Argentina is showing…
Vertical green
Have you ever thought of building a green roof or a vertical garden for your house? After this article, you will start thinking about it,…
Hemp: so useful, yet so misunderstood
Do you sock it to the planet with your socks? It is estimated that in the United States four billion pairs of socks are purchased…
Very little remains
Three days before leaving the White House President Barack Obama sent $500 million to the Green Climate Fund. Then came Donald Trump, and that could…
Are you a big foot?
You do not have to be a mythological creature to produce a huge carbon footprint. Carbon footprints are determined by how much of the greenhouse…
Back in the coal old days
Here’s what’s on Donald Trump’s climate change “hit list”, according to the respected current affairs magazine Newsweek. He will “gut” the Paris climate deal, “scrap”…
Wieliczka
810 steps underground. That’s what it takes to reach the bottom of the wonderful Wieliczka Salt Mine, which was closed after over 900 years of…
Nuclear Power is not “Green Energy”: it is a fount of atomic waste
Starting in 1971, I became a card-carrying member of the “nuclear priesthood.” I began as a licensed nuclear reactor operator and progressed through the industry…
To Effectively Combat Climate Change, Involve Women
London’s Waterloo Bridge over the River Thames is famously known as the “Ladies Bridge,” for it was built largely by women during the height of…
Looking for alternatives: CO2 mineralization
The reduction of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere is one of the great goals of our century. The constraints on emissions set by the…