Greener Students
A quick synopsis of recent/upcoming environmental events at local universities.
MIT’s energy conference begins tomorrow, featuring a free Energy Showcase from 5–8 PM:
Posts Tagged ‘video’
Extreme documentaries
Last week’s episode of NOVA Extreme Cave Diving was an interesting foray into “blue holes,” and the evidence they offer of paleo-climate. If you missed it, check the website to view it online. Similar, though less-breath taking evidence is offered in a recent paper from Yale.
This week’s Extreme Ice, provides a stunning and more in-depth review of the photographic documentation of glacial melting by James Balog, which we have mentioned before.
Ecosystem foot cubed
National Geographic has an interesting article about “the amount of life you can find in one cubic foot” of various ecosystems around the world. The article itself is short on details about the method, but beautifully written. For a description of the process watch the attached videos. Hint: It’s not an instantaneous cubic foot.
I’m melting
A brief and interesting Google Earthy video of global ice loss.
Vacuum Tube Solar Hot Water Comes to Cambridge
One of the first home improvements Rachel and I made when we purchased our condo here in Cambridge this spring was a solar hot water installation on our rooftop.
The system we had put in uses vacuum tubes, a newer, more efficient type of solar collector than the black box flat panels of old.…
Wind Electricity in Denmark
In honor of the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen, I have decided to write a bit about the highly-evolved Danish wind-generation network. Danes – it’s OK if you thank me later.
The Danes generate a higher percentage of their electricity from wind than any other nation.…
Making the Case
The New York times had an interesting op-ed last Monday by Paul Krugman, Cassandras of Climate Change. It contains a few quotable bits, but they’re large and the piece is short, so I’ll leave it to you dear reader to follow the link.…
The Birds and the Trees
This month’s National Geographic has an excellent piece on the state and history of the Coastal Redwood Forest. If the thumbnail at right has piqued your interest, the video below briefly describes how it was made. NPR has more coverage, including a larger pic.
The Age of Stupid
DUH
Although the name “The Age of Stupid” brings to mind Gary Larson’s strip “Awkard Age,” or Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy,” the film is a docu-drama about global warming. In it a mid-century man looks back and wonders why did not act more swiftly. Tomorrow is the world premiere, with a simulcast if the festivites and interviews of prominent figures, plus a showing of the film itself. Alas, it does not seem to be entering wide circulation afterwards?! Luckily, there are a number of showings in the area.
Biosphere 1: The Great Experiment
Laymen can have a tough time following complex stories such as climate change, particularly when the media and opponents characterize new findings or revisions as examples of uncertainty, rather than of science as evidence-based consensus building.…
