http://www.emagazine.com/ E/The Environmental Magazine, a bimonthly clearinghouse of information, news and resources for people concerned about the environment. en atursi@ksvc.com Copyright 2012 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:46:53 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~3/UrGLfJIoKrc/cats-crickets-cows-and-pigs http://www.emagazine.com/blog/cats-crickets-cows-and-pigs#id:9084#date:20:07 by Ethan Goffman Over the course of the past three years, my wife and I acquired two cats, which may have led to my shrinking consumption of meat. A cat, after all, is a big fluffy animal capable of an athletic bolt of speed and amazing leaps, delightful for petting and hugging. I would never eat a cat. Highly&#8230;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~4/UrGLfJIoKrc" height="1" width="1"/> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:07 GMT http://www.emagazine.com/blog/cats-crickets-cows-and-pigs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~3/JDrYbQFLjVA/the-charlie-brown-of-alternative-energy http://www.emagazine.com/blog/the-charlie-brown-of-alternative-energy#id:8936#date:20:18 by Ethan Goffman Among alternative energy, wind and solar get all the media attention, all the glamour.&amp;nbsp; Yet both suffer from intermittency, from the problem that their power sources wax and wane.&amp;nbsp; Solar disappears at night and weakens when clouds interrupt, while wind has its own unpredictable&#8230;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~4/JDrYbQFLjVA" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:18 GMT http://www.emagazine.com/blog/the-charlie-brown-of-alternative-energy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~3/xmwBqC_XGYo/where-it-comes-from-where-it-goes http://www.emagazine.com/blog/where-it-comes-from-where-it-goes#id:8703#date:19:45 by Ethan Goffman At a recent party, a young man claimed that we needed wind power to avoid fighting a war in the Middle East. This is mistaken. Wind power generates electricity, while the Mideast is a source of oil used to drive cars. They’re not the same thing. Transportation is powered largely by oil while&#8230;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~4/xmwBqC_XGYo" height="1" width="1"/> Tue, 31 May 2011 19:45 GMT http://www.emagazine.com/blog/where-it-comes-from-where-it-goes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~3/QyCZqgX_O5M/its-bleak-at-the-peak http://www.emagazine.com/blog/its-bleak-at-the-peak#id:8616#date:19:32 by Ethan Goffman With the Wikileaked news that Saudi Arabia may have overstated oil reserves by as much as 40%, speculation about peak oil has been rampant. Peak oil is the principle that once half of oil reserves are gone (the peak), scarcity will increase and prices rise as the remaining reserves become more&#8230;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~4/QyCZqgX_O5M" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:32 GMT http://www.emagazine.com/blog/its-bleak-at-the-peak http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~3/CRUsZPrm3fU/losing-the-nuclear-option http://www.emagazine.com/blog/losing-the-nuclear-option#id:8570#date:19:06 by Ethan Goffman The ongoing tragedy in Japan likely means that nuclear will play a smaller part in our energy future, both in the U.S. and globally. This is for psychological and political reasons, as much as rational concerns. The rational argument is that no matter how small the risk of a nuclear meltdown, the&#8230;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~4/CRUsZPrm3fU" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:06 GMT http://www.emagazine.com/blog/losing-the-nuclear-option http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~3/eyJD9SCe70U/we-can-cut-greenhouse-gases-to-zero-but-we-probably-wont http://www.emagazine.com/blog/we-can-cut-greenhouse-gases-to-zero-but-we-probably-wont#id:8478#date:16:56 by Ethan Goffman The technology is ready to provide all the energy the world needs with zero carbon emissions, using only wind, water and sunlight.&amp;nbsp; So says a November 2009 Scientific American article by Mark Z. Jackson and Mark A. Deluchi, “A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030.”&amp;nbsp; It would take&#8230;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EthanGoffmanBlogFeed/~4/eyJD9SCe70U" height="1" width="1"/> Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:56 GMT http://www.emagazine.com/blog/we-can-cut-greenhouse-gases-to-zero-but-we-probably-wont