allan-baer-renewable-energy-scenario1I am totally amazed and at times overwhelmed at the number and diversity of alternative energy technologies popping up. Daily claims by solar cell companies of new and improved efficiency, fantastic innovations, open sourcing such as the APIX initiative, the OSRAM recharging station in Africa– are exciting developments. But how do we make sense [...]

All of the disciplines need to be engaged in raising our awareness of our contribution to carbon emissions.  Each has a responsibility and vehicle for raising our awareness.  I have to be radical and say each has the responsibility to. Urgently.  Refocus your curriculum to make it relevant to the crisis. The students are eager to [...]

Always will be, perhaps.  Business as unusual.  Secrets kept.  Visions shared. Squirreling away nuts for winter.  Atomic winter. Opened, revealed, vulnerable, linked. Smartly mobbing everyman woman the dawn of our last gasp. A collective exhale where only little eddies survive fumigation.  Where are the barn swallows now that the snow has gone? The symphony has altered, the [...]

How do you create an information economy?  What is the relationship between the carbon emitted to gather data, or experience other places–tourism–and the potential for a community to create an information economy?  How do you begin to understand and account for the expenditure of carbon in our current paradigm? Now if I understand information in [...]