Yesterday I attended a meeting with the Agriculture Collaborative of the Mid-Region Council of Governments, a local organization in the middle Rio Grande valley of New Mexico.  The topic was global warming.  On hand to present their data were some great scientists from our local community, including climate scientist Dave Gutzler of the University [...]

 My Dad is a train fanatic, he loves trains, has loved them since he was a kid. Lately he has been telling me about the incredible value of transporting things by rail, not just goods (which remains a ubiquitous service in the United States), but also people. He argues that its pretty [...]

Bill Mollison has said: "A crisis is brought on by people who don't want to do something for themselves...and people who want to control others, talk about Peak Oil and crisis because everyone else is panicking".  This is a nice definition of crisis. Undoubtedly, crisis is a human-made phenomenon. In Bolivia, "crisis" is a constant [...]

We are constantly on the verge of another breakthrough. An information revolution. A nano-world. We transformed. We are on the verge of colonizing space. We shall go to Mars, we shall go beyond, we shall conquer the universe, or we shall go extinct trying. It seems irresponsible that we should do [...]

A quick technorati search this morning gave me a general idea of an issue that is on many people's minds: agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. Just have a look here, here, here or here...four different bloggers posting independently of one another, on the same [...]