RUN GMC: China, EVs, and the future of clean automobiles
“You know what FORD stands for, girls?” my grandpa used to ask my sister, Mattie, and me. “No,” I’d reply, but I already knew where his joke was heading. Being a General Motors (GM) car dealer led to an adamant, dedicated brand loyalty among the Fuson family lines, and jokes about other car brands were […]
It’s Poo Power: How Dairy Cows Could Provide the Electricity of the Future
They call it ‘cow power.’ A San Francisco-based company, Sustainable Conservation, wants to use the methane produced from cow manure to provide electricity for mass consumption. California is home to nearly 1,750 California dairy farms and 1.79 million milk cows, and as wonderful as this burgeoning California industry may be, these cows – and others […]
Petrocultures @ U of A to Receive Major Grant for ‘After Oil’ Project
KIAS research grant will help secure funding for “After Oil” Petrocultures project Part 1 of an in-depth look at the Arts-based KIAS Cluster Grant research projects By Angelique Rodrigues, with files from Carmen Rojas The Kule Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS) marked its fifth anniversary this year with the announcement of a $500,000 research cluster […]
New Product Lets Men Generate ‘Dirty’ Renewable Energy Via Masturbation
Ecology has always been intimate. Toxins such as persistent organic pollutants pervade our fat cells. Our foodways affect the climate. Endocrine-disrupting, gender-bending synthetic chemicals in plastics and other substances lead to lower sperm counts. Most sex toys are made from petrochemicals. The decision to procreate, or how many children to have, is the single most impactful environmental decision people […]
Eric Klinenberg, “Climate Change and the Future of Cities,” March 9th
Eric Klinenberg, New York University: “Climate Change and the Future of Cities” March 9th, 2015, 430-6pm at Rice U, Sewall Hall 309 Sponsored by CENHS, the Kinder Institute, and the Department of Sociology The fundamental threat to the human species is our collective inability to reduce our carbon emissions and slow the pace of climate […]
CFP: The Role of Social Sciences in a Low-Carbon Energy Mix, May 25-7
SENIX Conference in Stockholm on May 25-27, 2015 – The Role of Social Sciences in a Low-Carbon Energy Mix. Building the future energy system will meet social and political challenges. This is well acknowledged, but still there is insufficient action to involve the stakeholders needed for transparent and robust decision making by the end users […]
CFP: Energies and the Arts Conference
Conference on ‘Energies and the Arts’ next Fall in Australia: Energies and the Arts Conference Presented by National Institute for Experimental Arts in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia 13-15 August 2015 Energy often serves as a word-when-lost-for-words to describe situations of great intensity, or to describe something that fuses disparate elements or is […]
Deeper Water: A Report from Houston’s Offshore Technology Conference
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), an annual meeting for scientists, technologists, salespeople, job-seekers and corporate honchos in the offshore oil and natural gas extraction industry, is the largest annual conference in Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States. This year it attracted nearly 110,000 participants from 43 countries and was housed at the appropriately-named […]
Helen Hughes’ New Book GREEN DOCUMENTARY
Cross-post from Steve Rust at Ecomedia Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary Film in the 21st Century, a fantastic-looking new book from U Chicago Press by Helen Hughes, will be published in June by Intellect. Hughes is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Surrey. Here’s the book description: “During the first decade of the […]
Marina Zurkow, “Mesocosm (Wink, TX)” @ Rice Gallery This Week
Come and see Marina Zurkow’s animation “Mesocosm (Wink, TX)” at the Rice Gallery screening room. The animation will be screened all week during the gallery’s usual hours.