Eating Low on the Food Chain Reduces Environmental Impact
In the course of the radio show I recorded yesterday the interviewer asked me, “Craig, what do you think college students can do to lead ‘greener’ lives?”
“Wow,” I responded. “It’s hard to know where to begin. Obviously, we’re all trying to ‘reduce, re-use, and recycle.’ But certainly the way we eat has a great deal to do with our impact on the environment.”
“Is that true? How could that be?” came the response.
A bit stunned that this might be news to people, I explained the basic thermodynamics associated with raising animals for food — how horribly inefficient these processes are. (more…)
A fine young man, Rudy Chavarilla, called me this morning from 
In the course of something I wrote yesterday I noted: “In large measure, the world is in its deplorable condition precisely because we tolerate it.” What I should have known is that this sentiment was expressed 100 times better by one of the great Americans in history: abolitionist, lecturer, author and slave Frederick Douglass:
You may have noticed that I sometimes take controversial points of view in what I write here at 2GreenEnergy. And when I take on an issue like the morality of the oil companies, the validity of cold fusion, or the corruption that Big Money perpetrates on our government, you’ve probably seen that I get comments that range from “brilliant/right on!” to “you’re a fool/get lost.”
I just got off the phone with Paul Greyschock, from hydrokinetics start-up 
A reader comments on my recent report on China and renewable energy:
