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Energy and water tradeoffs in oil extraction
Experts say usable oil can be extracted from a rocky substance, called oil shale, that's abundant in western North America. But geologist Craig Cooper speaks of trade-offs in the energy and water extraction process.
February 25, 2009
Scientist says they should speak more loudly to public
Hayes says It's time anyone who is a scientist to speak out about pesticides in the environment, and he has become an advocate of banning the Atrazine.
February 23, 2009
Tyrone Hayes outlines link between frog and human health
Tyrone Hayes sees a close connection between the health of frogs and the health of humans. Hayes studies how pesticides interact with hormones.
February 20, 2009
Dickson Despommier: Vertical farms feed cities from skyscrapers
Microbiologist Dickson Despommier envisions 'vertical farming' in city buildings - growing produce, even fish and poultry, in vertical greenhouses.
February 6, 2009
Soylent heat turns fiction to fact
Maybe there are less-than-dystopian scenarios utilizing concepts of 'recycling' that could be applied to an overpopulated, energy-starved world.
February 2, 2009
Energy Internet needed in a crowded world
An Energy Internet is one component of Thomas Friedman's vision to change the way America thinks about - and uses - energy.
February 1, 2009
Affordable and green go together in home building
Fernando Pages builds homes that are affordable and green without the need for subsidies. Pages explains why green building is really advanced building, and how affordable and green go together.
January 25, 2009
World coal estimates are too high
No matter what you think of coal as an energy source, the fact may be that we have less to burn than previously believed, according to this scientist.
January 22, 2009
Gregory Burns on the brain, pain and finance
Hear neuroscientist Greg Berns talk how people are wired to cope with pain - or the threat of it and how the human brain makes painful financial decisions.
January 20, 2009
In tough times, the female brain is nature’s favorite
In tough times, the feminine reaction to stress and scarcity of resources is to gather, conserve, feed, nurture, to hunker down, nest and protect.
January 19, 2009
