I was amused and contemplative about two happenings affecting how we and the world make decisions concerning the use of energy and transportation fuel. Neither of them seems to have reached the national media. Both of them suggest how difficult… Continue Reading →
I am proud of my alma mater and read the magazine linked to it, the MIT Technology Review. Its coverage of alternative fuel issues is generally solid. Its more scientific and engineering-related articles, while at times requiring me to read… Continue Reading →
I wrote a book in the early ‘70s called the “Irrelevance of Planning in the ‘60s.” It was published by The MIT Press. The reviews were good. It sold enough copies to permit me to eat out at a middling… Continue Reading →
Free traders of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but the garbage that binds you. Oslo, Norway has pointed the way to a sustained profitable garbage trade. The city converts household trash, industrial waste (even toxic and dangerous… Continue Reading →
By now, who hasn’t heard about the oil boom in the United States? Higher oil prices and new extraction techniques are largely credited for creating a rash of new oil fields, resulting in domestic production soaring to levels that haven’t… Continue Reading →
Every Monday through Friday, I join my fellow commuters in the trek along the Orange Crush Interchange. While I occasionally succumb to road rage over the course of my 54-mile roundtrip route, I can usually remain calm with the knowledge… Continue Reading →
Good for you, Chris Paine! Paine, if you remember, was the filmmaker who produced “Who Killed the Electric Car?” His recent opinion piece in The Washington Post took on the supposed mythologies about the demise or slow progress of electric… Continue Reading →
Fuel Freedom Foundation has announced the addition of Douglas Foy, president of Serrafix Corporation and former Secretary of the Massachusetts Office for Commonwealth Development under Mitt Romney to its policy team. Foy’s role as senior legal advisor will be instrumental… Continue Reading →
Once considered to be a rite of passage into adulthood, sweet sixteen birthdays are no longer celebrated with a pair of keys to a shiny new car in the driveway (or even mom and dad’s old minivan in the garage).… Continue Reading →
I am not a tree hugger. I am proud, however, to be called an environmentalist and not so proud to be called a lot of other things. I do believe I have a personal obligation to try my best to… Continue Reading →
