Month: March 2011

I haven’t seen this yet on HGTV, but I like the Regular guy Mr. Handyman approach to the most practical way to solve our problems of security, energy, climate and employment – just in time for spring.
It’s a 6 part series, and this is number one – there’s also a blog.

I’ve embedded part 2 below the fold:

Continue reading “New Series: The Greened House Effect”

From the Portable Light Project:

Portable Light is a non-profit initiative with an international team of NGO’s, community leaders, anthropologists, doctors, architects and engineers. Portable Light Pilot Projects have been serving communities in Mexico since 2005, with projects now underway in Nicaragua, Haiti, Brazil, South Africa and Kenya.

Click for video below the fold

Continue reading “The Portable Light Project: Luminous Fabrics light up Third World”

The Union of Concerned Scientist’s Aaron Huertas sent along this amusing series of tweets, between UCS staff and, well, someone using Representative Dana Rohrabacher’s tweet account. Is that you Dana?

Rep. Rohrabacher (R – The O.C.) is one of the dimmest bulbs in Washington, and the co-star of my video “Brain vs Blowhard”. (Richard Alley plays himself, as the Brain)

Continue reading “Brain vs Blowhard 2: Taking it to the Tweets”

Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.

As Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, this film follows him to Greenland and the Antarctic as his research reveals the challenges we all face from climate change.