Look at a satellite photo of the Earth at night. Some parts of the planet blaze with light, but much of the globe–home to more than a third of the world’s population–is still in the dark. Ainsley Lloyd reports from Ghana on the challenges entrepreneurs are facing as they try to ensure energy access for all.
Month: February 2012
How the Next Farm Bill Will Hurt Sustainable Agriculture – and Help Industrial Farms
Patrick Baron looks under the hood of the next US Farm Bill. What’s inside? More hidden subsidies for industrial farm animal production in the guise of crop subsidies. How the next Farm Bill will undermine sustainable agriculture.
Op-ed: Local Climate Solutions as Christian Calling
think you have to love something before you’ll fight for it. At least that’s been my experience growing up in Minnesota. My friends and I built snow castles in the winter, chased rabbits in the spring and marveled at the sun-kissed summer leaves, years before we learned the biochemistry of photosynthesis. I yearned for the lakes, woods and prairies before […]
Sage Briefs: Energy Mapping the Masses
An ambitious project to map the energy consumption of every building in New York City shows off the limitless potential of energy mapping for future planning and development.
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