Awesome Guide to UN Climate Talks
As a climate change professional, I’m very familiar with the acronym COP, and in 2015 we’re having COP21 in Paris. It stands for Conference of […]
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Making Climate Change More Actionable
Climate change is classified as a wicked problem, that is, one that’s so complex and connected with other problems that it is very difficult to […]
Continue reading »Storytelling Helps with STEM Education
English and STEM teacher Lev Fruchter uses stories to teach computing, science, engineering, and math concepts. Using characters, motivations, and outcomes as analogies, Fruchter helps […]
Continue reading »No More Internal Combustion Engine in California?
Michael Killen, a friend who is a climate artist and filmmaker recently interviewed my mentor, Jim Sweeney about a debate at the upcoming Energy Summit […]
Continue reading »Starch-Based Diets Healthiest
Dr. John McDougall breaks it down for us in a very short video: throughout history, the healthiest human civilizations were the ones eating complex (unrefined) […]
Continue reading »Flower-Shaped Solar Panel
Called Smartflower, a new solar panel is 40% more efficient than regular rooftop systems, and can power an average household in Central Europe. Wowzaaaa! This […]
Continue reading »13-Year-Old Slams Al Gore
In a powerful video from a 13-year-old activist Lila Copeland on behalf of Earth Peace Foundation, a very clear case is being made for for Al Gore […]
Continue reading »Stanford Scientist on Fossil Fuel-Free Future
Democracy Now! interviewed Stanford professor Mark Jacobsen about the U.S. going fossil fuel-free. Prof. Jacobsen has formulated renewable energy plans for 50 states and wants […]
Continue reading »Happiness = Accepting Death
Death keeps coming up, in conversations and in what I read. For example, I was talking with two friends this week about how much the American […]
Continue reading »Failure is your Friend
Making mistakes is a crucial step on the way to success. It resonates with one of the rules for design thinking, specifically for prototyping: fail […]
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