Sustainability at IFTF
feedIFTF needs to practice what it preaches in the sustainability area... no, wait... we need to be 3-5 years ahead of our clients in leveraging technology and new collaborative practices to reduce the carbon footprint of our activity. We all know that offsets aren't viable over the long-term: we need to change our behavior and finds less energy-intensive ways to deliver our content and processes to clients.
Geoengineering at the National Academy of Sciences
It's amazing what can happen in five years.
On October 13 2010, I delivered a talk on the political and ethical dilemmas surrounding geoengineering at the National Academy of Sciences. I spoke at a meeting organized by the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), a group within the Academies that identifies...
Pentagon investing in energy research
The Washington Post reports on new Pentagon-sponsored research on energy efficiency, and the hard realities that now make it a priority:
[A]bout half of the U.S. military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are related to attacks with improvised explosive devices on convoys,...
