It’s Sunday afternoon, and after walking up and down Sunset Boulevard taking care of some errands, I’m sitting in our backyard with the view of Century City and the Wilshire Corridor in the far distance. I’ve grown to love that stretch of Wilshire, starting with the former Bullock’s department store (now Southwestern Law School), slicing [...]
What do you do when you’re new to the EU and face that 20% renewables target by 2020? Ask Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city and the country’s largest logistics and economic hub. Home to 350,000 people–10% of whom are students–Kaunas faces difficult choices in the next several years as Lithuania struggles to meet EU regulations. [...]
The Baltic tour continues to Latvia and its capital, Riga, where local products are on display on a grand scale. Spending time in Riga–once known as the Paris of the East–and missing the Riga Central Market would be a huge sin. After visiting this gem, your local farmers’ market would feel as exciting as buying [...]
It looks like today’s DME Wednesday. I just profiled BC’s Blue Fuel Energy, and came across an announcement from Korea’s natural gas monopoly, Korea Gas Corp (Kogas), stating that the company is investing US$338 million into a plant that will produce cooking fuel from DME. Long range plans call for Kogas to develop DME for auto [...]
This site is a huge fan of dimethyl ether, or DME, and with all the fuss over solar, wind, and even algae, DME is one option often overlooked. It’s clean burning and has applications from cooking fuel to running buses and trucks. Renewable energy advocates often overlook DME, a by-product of natural gas production, coal extraction, and biomass [...]
I think we’ll continue the Eastern Europe tour this week (with a side trip to British Columbia tomorrow), timely considering 20 years have passed since the Berlin Wall fell. So let’s discuss another inspiring success story in the once-Iron Curtain, Estonia. Overall, this easternmost of the Baltic States has gob-smacked the world with its economic [...]
The country in Eastern Europe to which I’d move in a heartbeat is Slovenia. I’ve never seen so many shades of green, and for a nation smaller than New Jersey, Slovenia offers much for the visitor: countless hiking opportunities, enchanting lakes such as Bled, a slice of the Adriatic coastline, and once you learn how [...]
GreenGoPost now has a channel on YouTube! We promise there will be better videos down the road, but for now, enjoy this 7 minute video of our backyard garden: and feel free to fast-forward through it! Got a video of what you’re doing in your yard? Please reply back with a video!!!
Yesterday I attended a talk given by USA Ambassador Friis Petersen of Denmark at UCLA’s CIBER (Center for International Business and Research). Ambassador Petersen was in Los Angeles for the day and somehow UCLA was fortunate enough to get a few minutes of his time. With the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change scheduled for next [...]
Mention British Columbia, and you might think of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler. There’s so much more to BC: including more movies that used to be filmed in Hollywood, Okanagan Valley wines, salmon and timber, and yes, Sarah Palin, that long border it shares with Alaska. But BC is also becoming a [...]