AquaCura.com http://www.aquacura.com/blog/ en Copyright 2008 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:23:47 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.17 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Bicycling goal for 2007 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/04/bicycling_goal.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/04/bicycling_goal.html Bicycling Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:23:47 -0500 NAHB says residential market is going green 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/04/nahb_says_resid.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/04/nahb_says_resid.html Green building Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:17:15 -0500 Time to raise the volume 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."

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/03/time_to_raise_t.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/03/time_to_raise_t.html Green building Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:57:25 -0500 Wal-Mart tries again 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/01/wal-mart_tries.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2007/01/wal-mart_tries.html General Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:55:22 -0500 I finally watched An Inconvenient Truth Since I received An Inconvenient Truth for Christmas, I watched it, and came away with some useful insights.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/i_finally_watch.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/i_finally_watch.html Climate change Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:21:20 -0500 Newly discovered IPA 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/newly_discovere.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/newly_discovere.html Beer Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:09:33 -0500 Nuclear power 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/nuclear_power.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/12/nuclear_power.html Green living Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:05:01 -0500 Cost of Green -- Part MCMVII I seem to be one of few (if any) green building professionals advocating a different way of framing the "cost of green" discussion.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/cost_of_green_-.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/cost_of_green_-.html Green building Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:33:21 -0500 Carl Hiaasen 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/carl_hiaasen.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/carl_hiaasen.html Nature wins Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:25:59 -0500 Greenbuild closing plenary address 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/greenbuild_clos.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/greenbuild_clos.html Green living Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:08:46 -0500 2006 Greenbuild conference 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/2006_greenbuild.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/11/2006_greenbuild.html Green living Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:53:18 -0500 Tom Whipple comments 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

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/09/tom_whipple_com.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/09/tom_whipple_com.html End of oil Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:27:58 -0500 Local or organic 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

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/09/local_or_organi.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/09/local_or_organi.html Green living Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:18:49 -0500 Can you say 'dissonance'? 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.

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/08/can_you_say_dis.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/08/can_you_say_dis.html End of oil Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:04:13 -0500 Each year it gets worse 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

]]> http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/08/each_year_it_ge.html http://www.aquacura.com/blog/archives/2006/08/each_year_it_ge.html Climate change Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:41:04 -0500