Metro Green

Here's an informative look at the features, limitations and the relative advantages of the new breed of electric cars. The electric-only Leaf by Nissan and GM's electric/gas "hybrid" the Volt. ...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2010/08/volt-vs-leaf.html

An excellent new blog from Marketplace Update called Easy Answers written by Adriene Hill. The link above will direct you to her most recent post about the BP Gulf Oil Spill. She's a thoughtful...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2010/07/easy-answers.html

Posted without comment. Enjoy: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Unusually Large Snowstorm www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Ca...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2010/02/genius-of-jon-stewart-daily-show.html

A very cool video about biofuels... produced using algae in a lab at the University of Arizona. Sorry, no embed code available... so click here to view.

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2010/02/accordian-photo-bioreactor-cool-but.html

Writing for the e-zine Sphere, author David Knowles explores awakening interest among climate scientists in Southern Arizona's iconic - if misunderstood - Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2's Second Chap...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2010/01/biosphere-2-arizona-relic-roars-to-life.html

In this era of empty calories, rampant obesity, profound sugar addictions and a diabetes pandemic fueled largely by a mephistophelian pact between the processed food-manufacturing industry and th...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2010/01/food-rules.html

In honor of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) taking place this week in Copenhagen, Google, who some are suggesting deserves its own permanent seat on the UN Security Counc...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-goes-green.html

Back to the land. Perfect for Thanksgiving. A way to eat, a way to teach children, a way to live.

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/11/way-to-live.html

Meet the GMC hydrogen-powered Hy Wire: Exhaust product? Water. I can live with that. UPDATE: After posting the above, Metro Green received an email from our favorite Austin, Texas-based genius/...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/10/electric-cars-are-so-two-minutes-ago.html

Back in March, Metro Green introduced readers to Shai Agassi and his Better Place; an ambitious concept for electric cars and for developing the support network and infrastructure needed to make...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/10/agassi-better-place-making-electric.html

...we are as Gods, and we HAVE to get good at it! Legendary environmental activist and progenitor of the Whole Earth Catalog talks about climate change, global energy challenges, nuclear energy ...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/09/from-steward-brands-we-are-as-gods-so.html

You may recall, in August Metro Green reported on the promise of the new 230 mpg gas/electric hybrid by GM called the Volt . Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that, "Electric is the big ...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/09/mood-is-electric.html

Not exactly breaking Metro Green news, but this fascinating conversation between Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman and Rocky Mountain Institute's Amory Lovins 2 years ago (8/07) is an...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/08/next-25-years.html

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant."(h/t ) World leaders pay tribute... The Telegraph reminds us of the divides EMK was able, in part, to bridge and of the disparate forces he was abl...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/08/edward-m-kennedy-1932-2009.html

More from Ian Plimer/Interviewed : >  >>  So go on then, Professor: What makes you sure that you’re right >>  and all those scientists out there saying the opposite a...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/08/so-go-on-then.html

Every now and then we at Metro Green (well, actually, "I") become seized with an overwhelming urge to separate (or at least to educate myself enough to be able to separate) political propaganda f...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/08/geology-carbon-and-mr-non-science-guy.html

...run America's six million plus 18-wheelers on natural gas. According to the eponymously-titled Pickens Plan, to do so could cut foreign oil imports in half. Here's a video clip from the recen...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/08/smartest-people-in-country-chu-gore-wm.html

Take a look at this item from CNN Money.com. It's a feature on the 2010 Chevy Volt . A promising sounding new automotive product combining the best in electric car technology with the most miser...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/08/chevy-volt-for-2010-230-mpg.html

RePower America's prearranged nationwide conference call... off to a late start (scheduled for 8:00 pm, Tuesday, June 23) by a few minutes. Steve Bouchard, veteran political strategist and Rep...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/06/live-blogging-al-gore-repower-america.html

Last month, I attended an informative, inspiring and very-well-organized event hosted by MoveOn.org featuring four prominent Tucson, AZ business projects - united by the sustainability theme. ...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/06/tucson-az-clean-energy-jobs-day.html

Though I'd heard it earlier today, a friend just emailed me the text of Obama's newly-released formal statement on the Iranian uprising. I am particularly moved by his MLK quote: “The arc of t...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-which-we-at-metro-green-salute.html

You Are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring! Paul Hawken is a friend of CharityFocus , renowned entrepreneur, visionary environmental activist, founder of Wiser Earth and author of many books...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/06/poetry-of-paul-hawkens-commencement.html

While in Austin, Texas last week, I caught David Brancaccio's NOW segment on PBS. He was interviewing Van Jones, author (The Green Collar Economy), environmental activist, founder of "Green for...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/06/now-on-pbs-green-collar-jobs.html

My six (soon-to-be-seven) year old son Xander showed me this kids vid. Reduce, Re-use, Recycle. So very Metro Green. Enjoy:

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/05/three-rs-by-mitchell-musso.html

Some may consider this blog unduly Arizona-centric and they may have a point. If it is so, (and surely it is), doubtless it's because I live in Tucson in the southern part of the Grand Canyon S...

http://metrogreen.blogspot.com/2009/05/grand-canyon-goes-solar.html