Yearly Archives: 2013

Headlines: Russia and Arctic Oil Exploration – An Accident Waiting to Happen

October 19, 2013 - Russia is the third largest producer of crude oil on the planet. They are also the source of the largest...

Headlines: U.S. Now World’s Top Producer of Oil

October 18, 2013 - If you think fossil fuels are going away because we are all more aware of the threat they represent to...

Headlines: New Hybrid Device Makes Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight and Sewage

October 17, 2013 - In the last week researchers at University of California Santa Cruz published a paper describing a self-sustaining hydrogen gas production...

Micro-Loans, Crowdfunding, Bitcoins, Transfers and Exchanges in the 21st Century

I don't know about you but it is pretty clear to me that money isn't handled these days the same way it was before...

Environment Update: Climate Change, the World Bank, Indonesia and Coal

I read two stories about the World Bank and climate change this week. One stated that Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary...

Agriculture Update: Thanksgiving Here in Canada Makes Me Grateful for What We Have

Why should we here in Canada be grateful on October 14, 2013, Thanksgiving Day? Because we live in a part of the world where...

Headlines: New Breakthrough in Biofuels Improves Output by 50%

October 13, 2013 - The article appeared in Nature, the weekly science journal, on September 30, 2013, and is entitled Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete...

Agriculture Update: GMO Crops Safe to Eat But a Challenge for the Environment

I have read so many diatribes about GMO foods, the Frankenfoods that Monsanto has released into the world of agribusiness, that I am more...

Headlines: Today is the 45th Anniversary of the First Manned Apollo Launch and a Day to Remember Scott Carpenter

October 11, 2013 - It is also a day to commemorate the second American astronaut to fly around the Earth, Scott Carpenter, who died...

Headlines: Oil Company Exec Says Knowledge of Geophysics Will Come in Handy for Carbon Capture

October 10, 2013 - Dirk Smit, Vice President of Royal Dutch Shell, heads up the Exploration Technology Division. Seen in the picture at the...

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