Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Why the Automakers Won't Make Fuel-Efficient Cars, Even as the Price of Being Bailed Out
ROBERT REICH'S BLOG : Telling automakers to make more fuel-efficient cars as a condition of being bailed out is like telling Citigroup or any other big bank to issue more affordable loans to Main Street as a condition of being bailed out... READ MORE
Army to buy electric cars
ARMY TIMES - NEWS :Aiming to save fuel and advance alternative-energy plans, the Army, Navy and Air Force intend to buy thousands of battery-powered, 35-mile-an-hour electric cars and light trucks to provide on-base transport, senior Army officials said... READ MORE
They Bash Horses, Don’t They?
PAPER CUTS : So I was very interested to learn that before people railed against the social and environmental evils of the automobile, they railed against … horses... READ MORE
Book Review: Ten Technologies to Save the Planet
TREEHUGGER :Ten Technologies to Save the Planet is a timely look at the major players in clean technology and what we stand to gain from them if we put the time, energy and money into them that they require to develop... READ MORE
Whatever happened to the hydrogen economy?
NEW SCIENTIST :WHATEVER happened to the hydrogen economy? At the turn of the century it was the next big thing, promising a future of infinite clean energy and deliverance from climate change... READ MORE
Spain city sets up solar cemetery
BBC NEWS :A Spanish city has found an unusual place to generate renewable energy - the local cemetery. Santa Coloma de Gramanet, near Barcelona, has placed 462 solar panels over its multi-storey mausoleums.... READ MORE
‘Green’ Nightclub Trend Comes to New York
GREEN INC. :From the music blaring through the speakers to the waste that piles up in trash cans behind the bar, night clubs have never had a reputation for being particularly green... READ MORE
World on cusp of clean tech revolution: Merrill Lynch
WWW.CANADA.COM : Clean technology will rival the Industrial Revolution and every major technological development since then to become the "Sixth Revolution," as the world grapples with the threats of peak oil... READ MORE
Cranks cry persecution, Nisbet listens
SCIENCE BLOGS :Ever since we began writing here about denialism we've emphasized a few critical points about dealing with anti-science. For one, denialists aren't interested in legitimate debate - they are not honest brokers and the tactics they use exist to artificially extend discussion of settled scientific issues... READ MORE
Poet in buyout talks with other ethanol producers
CNN MONEY : Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, is in buyout talks with a number of ethanol companies, the company's founder told The Associated Press on Monday... READ MORE