My Uncle Dave Wakefield lives in Anchorage, Alaska in a tiny house built when efficiency meant minimal construction cost and square footage. The house, which he’s lived in the past two decades, has changed little since its construction sometime before or during World War II. It has 2-by-4 walls, low ceilings, tiny rooms and a draftiness consistent with old [...]
Two facts make clean energy unbeatable: air pollution and its friend climate change. Sure there are naysayers. Texas Gov. Rick Perry was quoted as saying, “Scientists are ‘coming forward daily’ to disavow a ‘theory that remains unproven,’” in a tweet by New Hampshire Public Radio. And James Delingpole on globalclimatescam.com sarcastically says, “It now seems [...]
As a young undergraduate at Utah State University, I remember well the day I signed up for the required course “Turfgrass Management, Principles and Practices”. One of the chores I had growing up was to take care of the lawn on my parent’s one acre property. I soon came to dread the long hours of [...]
Hamburg is the world’s most beautiful city. Or at least that’s what my friend and former co-worker Alex Schwenkenberg would say followed by, “Take a look.” And he’d pull up several shots of the Germanic cityscape. Whatever its standings in the looks department, Hamburg, which has a population of about 1.8 million, does have an [...]
