A Short Update

Well, it has been a busy month for me, and I have not kept up with the Blog. I have been looking at a few others though, including Larry Lessing, Althouse, Dana Boyd, and Dr Helen.

I have not seen much in the news that has drastically changed in any way, but there have been incremental advances in Bio-fuels and green technologies that seem to hold some promise. The simplest of these is an idea I found at matteran energy, where they are creating a simple system to use the energy around us. There are supposedly greater things afoot, but details are sadly lacking.

I continue looking for the ideas that might be great enough to change the future, but from my present perspective, I do not see any one thing that will be the 'magic bullet' that will turn around the present state of the planet.

the power of green

I was just reading "The power of green" at the New York Times. I was very impressed by the logic presented by Thomas Friedman in that article, and the concept that we need a new "New Deal" to change our economic dependence on oil and petrochemicals.