AquaCura.com http://www.aquacura.com/blog/ en 2007-04-02T18:23:47-05:00 Bicycling goal for 2007 http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/04/bicycling_goal.html I haven't said much about my mileage goal in 2007. Last year I fell short of the 4000 miles I had projected. This year, the weather has made it difficult to get many miles.

]]> Bicycling aquacura.com 2007-04-02T18:23:47-05:00 NAHB says residential market is going green http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/04/nahb_says_resid.html We've been seeing references to green building practices in newspapers, popular magazines, and in the trade press for the past year or so. This year, the National Association of Homebuilders' green building conference in St. Louis attracted a good-sized crowd.

]]> Green building aquacura.com 2007-04-02T18:17:15-05:00 Time to raise the volume http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/03/time_to_raise_t.html Well, it has been far too long since I posted an entry. Last week I attended the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association conference in Boston (getting out of town just before the snow). I guess I'd summarize my feelings as, "It's time to raise the volume."

]]> Green building aquacura.com 2007-03-18T13:57:25-05:00 Wal-Mart tries again http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/01/wal-mart_tries.html An article in today's New York Times described Wal-Mart's intention to sell millions of high efficiency light bulbs, and the significant resistance the company is feeling from light bulb manufacturers that aren't particularly anxious for consumers to go in the high efficiency direction.

]]> General aquacura.com 2007-01-02T21:55:22-05:00 I finally watched An Inconvenient Truth http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/i_finally_watch.html Since I received An Inconvenient Truth for Christmas, I watched it, and came away with some useful insights.

]]> Climate change aquacura.com 2006-12-28T09:21:20-05:00 Newly discovered IPA http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/newly_discovere.html I have been waiting for Troeg's Brewery in Harrisburg to make a new batch of Nugget Nectar, the triple-hopped IPA they released early in 2006. Vainly, so far.

]]> Beer aquacura.com 2006-12-19T09:09:33-05:00 Nuclear power http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/nuclear_power.html As global consensus regarding the threats of climate change gathers, nuclear power seems to be moving toward a come back. The industry is claiming that reactors will be much safer this time. Really.

]]> Green living aquacura.com 2006-12-03T18:05:01-05:00 Cost of Green -- Part MCMVII http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/cost_of_green_-.html I seem to be one of few (if any) green building professionals advocating a different way of framing the "cost of green" discussion.

]]> Green building aquacura.com 2006-11-22T07:33:21-05:00 Carl Hiaasen http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/carl_hiaasen.html Carl Hiaasen http://www.carlhiaasen.com/ is a novelist and columnist for The Miami Herald. His novels are populated by charaters who are hard to describe. But the casts work well. A Hiaasen novel is hard to put down.

]]> Nature wins aquacura.com 2006-11-20T20:25:59-05:00 Greenbuild closing plenary address http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/greenbuild_clos.html The closing address was made by Jeffrey Sachs, the director of Columbia University's Earth Institute http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/. He was a principal author of the UN's Millenium Project.

]]> Green living aquacura.com 2006-11-20T20:08:46-05:00 2006 Greenbuild conference http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/2006_greenbuild.html I spent last week in Denver, attending the Greenbuild conference. The opening plenary address was delivered by Bill McDonough http://www.mcdonough.com/full.htm. It set the tone for the conference.

]]> Green living aquacura.com 2006-11-20T19:53:18-05:00 Tom Whipple comments http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/09/tom_whipple_com.html Tom Whipple, the editor of Peak Oil Review and member of the advisory board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil - USA http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php made the keynote presentation at the Richard Alsina Fulton Conference on Sustainability and the Environment at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. He started with some statistics:

* The world average petroleum consumption is 190 gallons per capita per year (gpcy)
* US petroleum consumption is 1000 gpcy
* Western Europe consumes about 500 gpcy; eastern Europe somewhat less

]]> End of oil aquacura.com 2006-09-15T15:27:58-05:00 Local or organic http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/09/local_or_organi.html This question has been getting a lot of attention in the green media lately, particularly as large agricultural interests (and large retailing interests) have entered the organic food market. I find myself more inclined toward local, if I have to make a choice.

Here's an article from the Green Guide on the topic (I hope the link works; Green Guide is a subscription service)http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc.mhtml?i=116&s=local

]]> Green living aquacura.com 2006-09-01T11:18:49-05:00 Can you say 'dissonance'? http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/08/can_you_say_dis.html Check this link: http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=37637 GM, Beemer, and Daimler Chrysler plan to put a lot of money into hybrid research and development. So far, so good.

]]> End of oil aquacura.com 2006-08-15T16:04:13-05:00 Each year it gets worse http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/08/each_year_it_ge.html You may recall my fretting about the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps. Scientists are surprised over the past couple of years that the ice is melting quite a bit faster than climate change modeling had lead them to predict.

Check this link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/10/AR2006081001557.html

]]> Climate change aquacura.com 2006-08-11T15:41:04-05:00