The Status Quo Crowd (SQC) are gonna write this off as left-wing, Euro-socialist propaganda. The SQC better hope the ideas in this report don't make their way into the halls of power because it proposes wholesale changes in the status quo and a peaceful revolution in how big business does business in America.
Many of the environmental issues involve systems so large, and complex and far-reaching, you can feel irrelevant. Really, how much can one person or even a small business do to change the U.
Atrazine is a weed killer widely used in agricultural areas of the U.S. It has been banned in the European Union because of health hazards.
but you gotta wait another fifteen years. Detroit automakers are rallying their troops: factory workers, Congressmen who have car factories in their district, those who are afraid Detroit means it when they say higher emission standards will cost jobs.
Will Americans become train trained? Europe and Japan have long had high-speed rail systems linking major metro areas.
Solar thermal tubes. Courtesy Schott.A new solarvoltaic production plant is opening in Albuquerque.
It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming.
I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet.
The U.S. Geological Survey could be accused of piling on.
Organic gardeners are circulating emails asking for home growers to unit and get political. They see Big Brother stepping into the garden and making it illegal for you to give those extra tomatoes to your neighbor, let alone sell them at a produce stand.