End of the month is always insanely hectic for me - but it was a very nice surprise to hop back in for a bit and see a nice new design for Audeamus. Come on over, it's pretty neat. Later......

Methods for converting your car to biodiesel and putting solar panels on your house are all well and good - for someone who actually has the money to do that kind of stuff. I can't do that on a...

The largely deplorable state of the U.S. health care system is not going to get much better anytime soon, thanks to the Bush administration. Major reports have been severely compromised or flat out...

So what happens after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012? Global warming won't just disappear. In fact, most countries can't even hope to be CO2-neutral until at least 2050. In response to...

Since I know you don't have the time to read them, here's my review and summary of 2006 corporate sustainability reports of interest - and links to the reports just in case you're...

"The Easy Button" just keeps getting better. Staples just recently released their 2006 Soul Report, detailing their social responsibility efforts. Measures include ethics streamlining...

Photo via BoGo website Now this is an idea founded in sheer genius. First, start off with a really great product - an inexpensive solar powered Flashlight. Then, whenever someone buys one of these...

The Hague, Netherlands is installing a major geothermal heating system - designed to take care of 4,000 homes, the first of which to be connected by winter '08/'09. The project will utilize 75...

There's a big debate about whether ethanol is a sustainable biofuel. Granted, that article likes to generalize and completely leave out the fact there are other biofuels (such as human excrement),...

I officially love my bank. The Wachovia Foundation, alongside the MacArthur Foundation and the Opportunity Finance Network just recently teamed up on a $42.5 million endeavor to support community...

Global "warming," although a misnomer, is absolutely, categorically, definitely happening. You may not notice a rise in temperature, but that doesn't mean everything is normal. Global...

When nature calls, did you ever stop to think Mother Earth may be asking you to nourish her? The recycling and cleansing of human excrement from the water supply may well give a lot of people jobs,...

So California is all strung out about meeting their Clean Air Act requirements, claiming that China is contributing to their pollution. Meanwhile, China is producing 10,500 pounds of carbon dioxide...

Glenn Loury, professor of Economics at brown university, poses a very interesting point on immigration. While there is little to no evidence that immigration is actually doing any harm whatsoever to...

So about this immigration for labor thing - is it good? Is it bad? It's hard to tell. The U.S. Senate recently dropped the ball on an immigration reform bill. Businesses liked it though - they...

Here in the States, it's Independence Day. The day we celebrate our victory over England in the Revolutionary War, and became a democratic republic. While you're indulging in your grilled...

Just when the Chinese market is at its peak, it has now started to enter a major state of flux. For one, the U.S. has stopped importing some of their products, namely farmed seafood and wheat gluten...