What makes food good? To ask this question in contemporary society is to enter an arena in which aesthetic, ethical, economic, agro-ecological and physiological definitions of goodness intertwine, clash and vie for eaters’ attention. Few issues seem to demand our attention so frequently—and on such visceral levels—as does our need [...]
We are excited to have Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC, as a speaker at Nobel Conference 45, H2O: Uncertain Resource. Dr. Pachauri was elected chair of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2002 and re-elected in 2008. The IPCC is an international body that assesses the current status [...]
As governments wrestle with the implications of carbon emissions and global warming, electric utilities dependent on coal-fired power plants are pondering their response to the situation and probable future carbon regulation. With 50-60% percent of the nation’s electricity coming from coal, the question is a huge one for utilities. The cheapest plants to [...]
Just in time for the Nobel Conference, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has fired a warning shot across the bows of the growing biofuels flotilla. The OECD, a consortium of market-based democratic governments, noted that biofuel development has been driven by a desire to develop markets for surplus agriculture production without [...]
A comment was made in general chemistry today about scientists in the 1970s saying we should be worried about global cooling. Now scientists are warning about global warming. Why are scientists so confused on this issue? A summary of this issue can be found at New Scientist’s web site: here The [...]
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