From this piece in the New York Times: The Earthshot Prize, an independent charity that was recently broken off from William and Catherine’s Royal Foundation, awards 1 million British pounds, or about $1.2 million, to each of five winners, one …
Tag: Sustainable Agriculture
Check Out a Talk on “Holistic Land Management”
Readers who happen to be local to Santa Barbara, CA will want to check out a talk that my colleague Eric Adler is giving on April 3rd on the fascinating topic of holistic land management (see poster below).
Something’s Not Clicking in West Virginia
If your house is on fire, do you a) call 911, b) get everyone out safely, or c) find a flammable liquid and douse the fire liberally near the base of the flames? If you chose c), you have what it …
Making Tough Choices Re: Fossil Fuels
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
Got a CleanTech Business Concept? Send It Along
It’s about time for me to re-offer a free service that I’ve been delivering happily for the last seven years: business plan evaluation. Suppose you have an idea for a cleantech business—anything in renewable energy, electric transportation, smart-grid, energy storage, sustainable …
From Guest Blogger Grace Wood: Sustainable Agriculture – Nature as an Ally with Holistic Management
Holistic Management is a farming method that combines social, environmental and economic objectives. It is a “less is more” approach which encourages farmers to farm on smaller surfaces, with fewer synthetic fertilizers or herbicides and lower expenses on equipment, while …
Tagged with: Sustainable Agriculture
From Guest Blogger Christine Rudolph: Five Ways to Save Power as a Professional in Agriculture
Nowadays, agriculture plays a crucial role in the economy of every existing nation. Not because for the reason that it tends to provide for the whole people of a country but also because that agriculture interacts and corresponds with all …
Why Venture Capital Isn't Embracing CleanTech
In 2011, I did a talk on clean energy and transportation at the incredibly palatial Biltmore in downtown Los Angeles (pictured), at the conclusion of which a gentleman introduced himself and told me about a zero-emissions vehicle he was building. …
From Guest Blogger Casey Carter: Climate Change–How a Warming World is a Threat to our Agriculture
Every now and then we being reminded of how our world temperature levels are rising and how, if not checked, will gradually lead to our demise. Scientists, environmentalists and law makers have made policies to try and curb the effects …
Great Statements Have Their Own Beauty
We all have a certain appreciation for statements of important facts that are so concise and finely tailored that the words themselves offer a profound beauty. Students of the U.S. Civil War recall the ceremony at which Lincoln delivered the …
