Climate and clean energy news and commentary
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by Patrick Mazza on April 12, 2012The BioCycle Conference in Portland April 16-19 focused on the new economics of materials and natural services – harnessing organic wastes with processes that make valuable goods, and valuing ecological services to send the right signals on the use of nature in general. Read more
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by Patrick Mazza on March 30, 2012What do yard trimmings, food waste, woody materials, biosolids, manure, municipal solid waste and other organic residues have to do with cooling our overheating climate? Read more
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by Patrick Mazza on March 7, 2012Climate change is among the greatest challenges facing 21st century agriculture. To anticipate those challenges a cutting-edge Northwest scientific exploration is bringing some very 21st century tools to bear. Read more
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by Patrick Mazza on February 21, 2012In a world of ever increasing stress on our food and energy supplies, it makes little sense to pave farmland under sprawl, but that’s what we’ve been doing. Read more
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by Rhys Roth on January 16, 2012Our country, America the Beautiful, boasts somewhere between 105 million and 2 billion parking spaces, according to a New York Times blog that caught my eye the other day. This boggles my mind on two levels: Read more