Efficiency is the way to go
Check out this article posted on Salon by Joseph Romm “Why we never need to build another polluting power plant”. It details how we could use efficiency to reduce our greenhouse gases without having to build more power plants.
A couple of highlights from the article:
- While a few states have energy-efficiency strategies, none matches what California has done. In the past three decades, electricity consumption per capita grew 60 percent in the rest of the nation, while it stayed flat in high-tech, fast-growing California.
- …In the 1990s, the Energy Department began forming partnerships with energy-intensive industries to develop clean technologies. We worked with scientists and engineers to identify areas of joint research into technologies that would simultaneously save energy, reduce pollution and increase productivity. The Bush administration slashed funding for this program by 50 percent — and keeps trying to shut it down entirely.
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
Open Source Science
Check out this great article from the New York Times by Cornelia Dean. I think this is a great idea. Scientific problem.. maybe more brains could help me figure out the answer… Cooperation at its finest.
I have a book somewhere about this general concept of cooperative problem solving. I will update when I find it.
—MoGo
My Road Less Traveled Design: The voting is going really well. Thanks for the great comments.
So Just click on the thumbnail below and it will take you there. Thanks for all the nice comments! My favorite comment of all being of course: “This design is important to humanity.” Best to everyone who voted and encouraged me!
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
