American Corn Declines as Global Crop Research is Boosted

cornfield

We’ve got used to roller-coaster oil prices, although it doesn’t stop panic buying at the pumps when gas prices are projected to rise, but roller-coaster food prices are something that hasn’t been seen in most of the developed world for many decades.

MJG #58: Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, and Beck Wear Speedos to Fight Global Warming

Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, sunbathing

After learning that white rooftops could fight global warming by reflecting the sun’s heat, Rush gets an idea. A real sexy idea…

Environment Versus The Bottom Line – Weird Wall Street Trading Markets

Withdrawl from the Species Bank!

The longer I am here at the Wall Street Green Trading Summit, the less this feels like anything to do with environmentalism. At some point, when does off-setting stop being feasible, and when does carbon reduction become the name of the game?

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Fixing Our Electric Grid and Solar Panels for All (even the underfunded)

Wall Street Green Trade Summit.  Same location, last year's photo.

The summit is over for today, but I wanted to throw some concluding thoughts out after an afternoon spent discussing good business models for producing alternative energy and for overhauling our current electrical grid.

T. Boone Pickens Organizes 4.5 Million Virtual Marchers

energy and sustainability in a virtual world

T. Boone Pickens’ kicked off a “virtual march” on Washington, D.C. today, organizing the collective power of over 4.5 million people to flood Congress with e-mails, calls and faxes in support of clean energy.

Trading Carbon at the Wall Street Green Trading Summit

Excuse Me, Waiter? What Year is this Carbon?

Live from the Wall Street Green Trading Summit

The Header from the Wall Street Green Trading Summit, banner image

We’re coming at you live with special Red, Green, and Blue coverage from New York’s very own Wall Street Green Trading Summit.

Not an April Fool’s Day joke – slow gardening with real slowness …

allotment

The general idea is fantastic, 1,000 plots could provide the British population with 2.6 million lettuces per year or 50,000 sacks of potatoes, as well as reducing food miles, improving land use, and giving individuals healthful exercise in the fresh air.

Former President Bush to Receive Environmental “Nobel Prize”

Former President Bush to win Goldman Prize, the environmental nobel prize (april fool’s)