Search the Internet and troll through Twitter, and you’ll find all sorts of compelling, even, cool stories about algae and how this may be our ticket away from dependency on fossil fuels. By any measure, there are about 200 to 250 start-ups in this fledgling industry.
April Fool!
But she’s not just about reducing global warming: ending world hunger and improving memory capacity are at the core to a research project that will prove as a disruptive technology in renewable energy research.
Daniela Mercury is probably Brazil’s most prominent goodwill ambassador. Her music is popular around the world; much of her fan base [...]
Believe it or not, I’m giving a presentation to a USC alumni group 2 days after I return…Thur., Feb. 25, 7pm, at the Village Idiot (no pun intended), in the Melrose area of L.A. If you think you’d like to attend, or know someone that will, please DM me on Twitter (leonkaye), or email me [...]
Sunday night we joined Daniela Mercury´s bloco for Salvador da Bahia´s Carnaval. It was wild–more details on that later.
I think we joined the best bloco. The way Carnaval works is that you have these trios, which are like floats, where the singer or band performs. On the trio, which is a jerry-rigged semi-truck, are the [...]
The debate over biofuels is often a heated one. In Indonesia, the thirst for palm oil has led to deforestation and a rise in food crops. Naturally we all have opinions over corn ethanol’s effects here in the United States. I’ve always had the view that biofuels, if sourced sustainably and does not require more [...]
It has been said that the North Korean diplomatic outpost in Uzbekistan has probably the worst diplomatic staff on the face of the earth. The second worst is probably the staff of the Brazilian Consulate in Los Angeles. Horror stories abound, the most recent of which comes from poor (name withheld to avoid any risk [...]
I have mentioned several times the potential for dimethyl ether (DME) as a viable fuel source. The race for harvesting DME is between East Asia, Sweden, and now Canada. Another company, Calgary-based GV Energy, has plans on opening a DME plant in Terrace, British Columbia.
Like many forestry towns in the Pacific Northwest, Terrace has been [...]
So it’s the day after Christmas, and hopefully your tree will last till New Year’s Day, or if you have some Armenian or Eastern European blood in you, it will hold out until January 6. I do not have a problem with buying a live tree, as long is it is mulched by the city, [...]
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 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 [...]
There are two things you should try in Canada that are hard to find south of the border. First, peameal bacon, which is a lean cut of pork, similar to uncured ham, and great on a sandwich or with eggs. Next, there’s poutine, the most pleasurable guilt: French fries with cheese curds and gravy. You’ll [...]
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