Guar: Shovels in a gold rush?

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The analogy of selling shovels in a gold rush immediately came to mind when I read this : U.S. companies drilling for oil and gas in shale...
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How much water?

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Striking image of how much (or little) water there is on/in the Earth. I'd guess that the sphere would be much smaller for fresh wate...
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Awesome wind map

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See it here .

The importance of the liberal arts

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... the usual suspect scientific and technical conundrums which the techdysiasts would have us address are defined and constrained far more ...

Unexpected side-effects of floods

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All of the spiders climb into trees ( see #8 ). Perfectly logical and yet utterly unanticipated; I feel like there is an allegory and/or war...

Learning from comments

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Great example of the value of rapid collective dialogue in a comments section, started by Felix Salmon's post on vehicle-to-grid : This ...

The Rise of the North, data center edition

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Facebook, the latest tech company to take the polar plunge, announced this week that it will build a data center just south of the Arctic Ci...

Electric power supply-demand is nuanced

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This post over at Marginal Revolution is a great example of why industry-specific knowledge is important, and why extrapolating from genera...

Food prices and riots keep company

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Via Michael Roberts , food prices cause are highly correlated with riots . Cool-looking chart and good hypothesis to pursue further, alt...

You, too, can innovate

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13-year-old makes solar power breakthrough by harnessing the Fibonacci sequence (and files for U.S. patent). Apologies for the light pos...

On droughts

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1. The drought has missed the corn belt, but the heat waves haven't (making Michael Roberts bullish on food prices). 2. You know a drou...

Tyler Cowen's next book on food!

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I saw Tyler Cowen live in DC tonight - a fun experience for those of you who are familiar with his written word. Most of the discussion fo...

Volatility cuts both ways

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Lest we be lulled into the assumption that commodity prices are on a one-way trip to infinity: In just the last couple weeks corn prices hav...

Third largest ag exporter is... the Netherlands?

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Take the case of the Netherlands. Unbeknown to most people, it is world’s third largest agricultural exporter, despite having little land (i...

Yucca mountain revival and Fukushima design specs

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It seems that science may prove more enduring than politics in the case of Yucca Mountain , which was given up for dead by many two years ag...
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PUMA's EP&L

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As you may have heard, apparel company PUMA has recently published the world's first EP&L (environmental profit and loss) statement...

NYTimes weekend round-up

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I don't often read the full NYTimes, but I happened to this Sunday, and since I haven't posted in over a month, and it's almost ...

Great news for cows

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Rinderpest, a cattle disease that for centuries felled herds in Europe, Africa and Asia and caused periodic human famine, has been eradicate...

Germany to phase out nuclear by 2022

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This isn't the first time they've said this (the last was before the commodity boom), but Germany will shut down all its nuclear pl...

Finite room for construction in China

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China's explosive demand will finally drop from its stratospheric level, either because China's economic development falters or beca...