Sometimes, I don’t really have answers. This case where the neighbors of a solar user were forced to cut down their trees is one of those times.
This story brings up all kinds of troublesome issues, and challenges a lot of assumptions about green living and being environmentally responsible. Most, or at least many, environmentalists would [...]

We don’t usually think that hard about what that means. Calories, yes; occasionally we consider the carbon footprint of our meal in terms of how far it had to travel to us, if it came packaged in plastic or cardboard, etc. But a recent New York Times article brings to light the truly dark side [...]

Over the weekend, I got into a discussion with a good friend of mine about climate change. What began as a friendly, casual interchange soon developed into one of those exaggerated conversations. You know the kind: where each person temporarily adopts extreme and opposing views, simply the hopes of spicing up an otherwise tepid chat. [...]