Innovation in Solar Tech
Solar Tech is experiencing a dramatic shift in the cost of almost all elements of the value chain, from [...]
Nanotechnology: A Catalyst for the 21st Century
Knowledge is cumulative. What our grandchildren need to learn is far greater that what we were taught just two generations [...]
Earth Day 2019
It has been 49 years since the first Earth Day. A lot has happened in that period of time, much [...]
Regenerative Agriculture
I own two small dairy farms in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. The farms were once able [...]
Earth Day and The Momentum of Sustainable Development
Human activity puts over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse [...]
Sustainable Product Development and Fuel Cell Systems
I recently went to China and gave a talk at Nanjing University entitled “Sustainable Product Development and Fuel Cell Systems”. [...]
The Paris Agreement
This photo was taken 1 million miles from the earth this past July on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite [...]
The Abundance Cycle
Last week I went to Bar Harbor and visited Mount Desert Island on the occasion of my wedding anniversary. While [...]
Laudato Si’ – Pope Francis’ Encyclical
Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Care for Our Common Home is an amazing moral statement for human society. It [...]
The Wood Pile
The act of living simply has been written about by many folks, from Henry David Thoreau to Wendell Berry. My [...]