The U.S. Department of Interior's decision to limit land leases on oil shale — a euphemism for rock mixed with kerogen with the energy content of french fries — was wise. I wrote up a story pitch after the Bush Administration decision to vastly expand oil shale leasing in 2008; it offers some perspective on the…
NASA has released a phenomenal image:
Big Blue Marble, 2012 Edition. Click through and download the hi-res image to zoom in. It's worth your time.
Taken by the the Suomi NPP spacecraft on January 4. Ball Aerospace built the NPP spacecraft; the instrument, the snappily named Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), is Goddard's work. Unbelievable.
If it looks…
Scientific American's David Biello, a sharp observer of clean (and less-clean) energy, posted this piece on peak oil yesterday. The long and short of it is peak oil (the moment when we've collectively burned as much oil -- about a trillion barrels -- as is left in the ground) actually happened in 2005.
Peak oil is important…
Eric Schlosser, the author of "Fast Food Nation" and other books, keynoted the Colorado Conservation Voters' annual luncheon today. The influential author was addressing an influential audience -- Gov. John Hickenlooper, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, U.S. Reps. Diana Degette and Ed Perlmutter, regional EPA director Jim Martin, and a slew of state house and senate…
The CU Center for Environmental Journalism forwarded a note with this link this morning, to a Wired.com article about how Al Gore and Push Up Press are aiming to "blow up the book." As someone who recently wrote a book and then converted it into Kindle and ePub formats, this caught my attention. Push Up…