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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Susan Kraemer
To Congress: How to Build a Zero Carbon America
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January 19, 2009: Here's an idea for legislation to get more solar roofs up fast and cheaply, even during the current financial meltdown: How? Write a law saying that if homeowners want to put in a solar roof, then their utility MUST then... read more >
Let's Pay Detroit To Bring Their Gas Sipping Cars Home To The U.S.A.
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January 4, 2009: Who hasn't been enraged to read about how Ford and G.M. can make perfectly good little gas sippers in Europe, but just can't bring themselves to make a fuel efficient car for us back home? Well, now that they need some... read more >
Utilities Suggest Huge Electric Vehicle Orders
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January 4, 2009: Utilities are among the groups now considering mass orders of electric vehicles from the U.S. automobile manufacturing sector, to help the auto companies make the biggest manufacturing realignment since since WWII. The... read more >
Energy Journalist Trapped in Effluent From Electric Power Station
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January 4, 2009: The journalist Stephen Lacey, who podcasts for REW, was caught in the discharge from an electric power station that he was writing about for his magazine. Oh, did I say trapped in effluent? What I meant to say was that... read more >
Instead of a Bailout - Put Deposits On EVs and Plug-In Hybrids
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December 13, 2008: As the age of oil ends we have stopped buying the cars that Detroit makes; now they don't have money to adapt to build the more fuel efficient vehicles that we do need. As a result production of near-term solutions, such as... read more >
The Real Wall Street Bailout As Sea-Levels Rise
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November 26, 2008: A mere few centuries after they founded Nieuw Amsterdam , (a distant settlement that came to be known as New York City); the worlds leading experts in sea-level adaptations may see their former colony drowned. But could... read more >

Re "The Real Wall Street Bailout As Sea-Levels Rise" (December 3, 2008): What a thoughtfull comment...yes, it does make me think of Babel. It's a great analogy. Read More >
Homo Sapiens Redesign: Homo Sustainabilius
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November 8, 2008: I just knew Mother Nature would figure something out! The 6 Billion of us is such a tight squeeze on this planet, with our unsustainable ways! Ecologists say that eventually climate change will shrink all species. They don'... read more >

Re "Homo Sapiens Redesign: Homo Sustainabilius" (November 20, 2008): Sorry to be silly....but sometimes you just have to take the long view or you lose your perspective! If you just fear for your own grandkids you might get bummed out. So just think how perfectly toasty things will be for the... Read More >
Heartland State Funds A Post-Ethanol Economy
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October 30, 2008: A Midwestern state ferments a new brew with a $150 million investment in new bio energy technologies Wisconsin is a corn ethanol state, and the people of Wisconsin pay $19 billion a year out of state to get 70% of their... read more >
Susan Kraemer

I work for a renewable energy start-up in Northern California and write freelance for HomeDesignFind and Greenoptions sites Gas 2.0 and Cleantechnica