Category Archives: environment

A Free eBook on Sustainable Energy

By Frank DiTraglia | February 21, 2009

Cambridge Physicist David MacKay has written a book on sustainable energy, and is giving it away on his website. Just shy of 400 pages, it’s an extended back-of-the-envelope calculation comparing potential sustainable energy generation capacity to likely consumption.
In case that sounds a bit boring, let me assure you that it isn’t. MacKay’s writing [...]

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Johann Hari on Rational vs. Romantic Environmentalists

By Chris Muir | January 13, 2009

OK, officially back from the holidaze now.  The next issue of MP should be coming out quite soon, so look out for that.  In the mean time let’s get back to blogging.
Journalist Johann Hari has a thought-provoking piece over at Slate.  Ostensibly it’s a review of a recent book of American environmental writing edited by [...]

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The only thing that runs in Africa is the food…

By James | August 29, 2008

If you have a few hours to spare, I recommend taking a look at Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, by Peter Allison.  The title is pretty self-explanatory, and the book is just a series of anecdotes about the author’s time spent as a guide in the Okavango Delta.  [...]

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Economic growth and the environment

By Chris Muir | June 11, 2008

The insistence by some biologists that we must halt economic growth in order to save the environment has bothered me for some time, but I was prompted to write about it now because yet another, albeit minor, group has adopted a policy statement on the issue.  That a naturalist group has agreed to this nonsense [...]

Also posted in Biology, Economics, June 2008 | Leave a comment