The first time I saw an Urban farm was in Tokyo. I was visiting my friend there and across the street, in what would have been just an empty lot in Canada, was little farm plot. (Audio Podcast Available) There are thousands of them throughout Tokyo… they are immaculately tended and, according to my friend, …
Category Archives: Environment
Storing Hydrogen using Nanotubes
One of the toughest problems facing the “Hydrogen Economy” is storing the Hydrogen. Hydrogen is of course quite volatile. We saw with Challenger what happens when you mix Hydrogen and Oxygen. We’ve come a long way since then, and we’re dealing with slightly different materials and quantities, but the difficulty remains. How do you store …
Bolivians move toward elections
Over the past weeks and months Bolivians have been protesting against their government. The protests have been intense, but largely peaceful. It has been mainly students, farmers, working people and indigenous people railing against the governments (Audio Podcast Available) Unfortunately, I do see these protests as something of a harbinger of things to come. There …