By Vihar Sheth on January 12, 2010
Below are 10 startling facts we learned in 2009 that underscore the climate threat. I am republishing them from an email I received from the Environmental Defense Fund. A study published in the journal Science reports that the current level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere – about 390 parts per million – is [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy | Tagged Climate Change, Responsibility, Sustainability |
By Vihar Sheth on December 7, 2009
I’m approaching 30,000 words. While I’ve been moving at a much slower pace than I’d like, I’m coming up with a few subplots that will hopefully help my story. Tortoise and the hare, tortoise and the hare. What some people are calling the last best chance for humanity to save itself from climate change starts [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Government & Society, Miscellaneous | Tagged Climate Change, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, United Nations |
By Vihar Sheth on December 2, 2009
My wife is on a mission. The objective: get in shape. She and a friend are working out five days a week doing a mix of classes and running. I’m tagging along, though not working out nearly as hard. The point of this is that when I’m doing my cardio, I like to read. And [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy | Tagged Coal Ash, Utilities |
By Vihar Sheth on July 6, 2009
While there are not a plethora of lessons to be learned from Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, there is one in particular of which to take note. Amid the some of the best CGI ever seen and the slow-motion-hotness of the ever ungrateful Megan Fox (and regular-motion-perhaps-even-greater-hotness of coed Isabel Lucas) looms a battle for [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy | Tagged Movie, Solar, Sustainability, Transformers, War |
By Vihar Sheth on April 23, 2009
I really, really, really hope this: “AmerenUE CEO Tom Voss said the company is suspending its efforts to build a second nuclear plant in Missouri because of the failure of legislation it was pushing in the General Assembly,” is true. And by true, I mean that I hope this is a long term decision. So [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Government & Society | Tagged Ameren, Legislation, Nuclear, Politics |
By Vihar Sheth on April 7, 2009
On Monday, a day the winds blew fiercely in St. Louis, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said, “The idea that wind energy has the potential to replace most of our coal-burning power today is a very real possibility. It is not technology that is pie-in-the sky; it is here and now.” Could you ever imagine a statement [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy | Tagged Coal, Ken Salazar, Turbines, Wind |
By Vihar Sheth on March 20, 2008
On March 8, 2008 I attended the Sierra Club / Missouri Coalition for the Environment sponsored Climate Action Summit. I was going to provide a summary of the key points and my thoughts related to them – and still might – but the Missouri Coalition for the Environment put up a summary page on their [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Government & Society | Tagged Activism |
By Vihar Sheth on February 4, 2008
Just a little reminder from the Sierra Club: Livestock create a beefy portion of all greenhouse-gas emissions: 18 percent, according to the United Nations. Could the answer be as simple as two slices of bread and a slathering of peanut butter and jelly? Perhaps. Compared with a burger, this classic sandwich saves as much as [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Food & Health |
By Vihar Sheth on February 1, 2008
My apologies for the quietude. I was traveling this week for work and haven’t had a chance to sit down and think about anything green. I did manage to read a few informative articles this week, and I’ve provided links to them below: What makes the U.S. West so dry? Intel buys 1.3B kW hours/year [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy |
By Vihar Sheth on January 15, 2008
People all over the country are fighting the good fight against coal. According to the Associated Press: In federal and state courtrooms across the country, environmental groups are putting coal-fueled power plants on trial in a bid to slow the industry’s biggest construction boom in decades. At least four dozen coal plants are being contested [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Design & Technology | Tagged Coal |
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