August 2009
8 posts
Re-Engineering the Earth - The Atlantic →
As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force. Their ideas are technologically plausible and quite cheap. So cheap, in fact, that a rich and committed environmentalist could act on them tomorrow. And that’s the scariest part.
Why not, instead, invest in the core...
Greenwashers, Beware: Checks and Balances Might Be... →
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GM: Still Making the Same Mistakes - BusinessWeek →
The worst mistake is that by the time the Chevy Volt comes to market it won’t be the all new and potentially most exciting introduction of 2010… Why won’t it be knocking socks off? Because by the time dealerships actually receive their Volts, the impulse buyers will have been seeing the vehicle for almost three years. To GM’s most cherished buyer demographic, the Volt...
