I have traveled quite a bit over the years for work and for holidays, study and cultural exchange. Note that I have probably planted enough trees in my life to balance this activity’s carbon spew quite nicely. Continue Reading

In February of 2008 a study in Science by Timothy Searchinger of Princeton University found that counting the indirect greenhouse gas emissions from land use changed, ethanol is actually worse for the environment than petrol. Continue Reading

I just caught the tail-end of a television programme in which a man was showing how he had tapped into geothermal energy to power his house.  He said that all he had to do was drill low enough to draw up the heat and that the infrastructure would pay for itself within five years.  Continue Reading