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Monday Links: February 4th, 2008
Welcome to February, and another week here at Tropophilia. Be sure to check out new posts (including a great guest post by Bruce) from the weekend; here are your morning links: Fast Company gives us...
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Purpose-Driven Gadgets
Since I’ve already gushed with geeky joy over gadget blogs, I feel safe bringing this (extremely useful) gizmo to your attention: The Eco-eye is a straightforward concept: a real time accounting of...
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Of Mountaintops and Mashups
One of the great things about technology — aside from the geeky awesome gadgets that Taylor and I crush on — is the unprecedented access to information that it gives to the individual. Indeed,...
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Cleaner Energy Ideas
I spent the beginning of last week at a great conference on North Carolina’s Energy Future. While in future posts I want to offer specific reflections based on individual speakers, let me first...
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Monday Links: February 25th, 2008
Sunday, at least in my part of the country, was a gloomy day of bitter cold, rain, and gray skies. As a result, I stayed indoors and read a fair share of blogs. Here are a few gems I uncovered: The...
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“Green is Green:” Good Enough?
Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, spoke at a conference I attended recently (though the conference was weeks ago, I’ve slowly written about it as I’ve digested the information). You...
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Going Nuclear?
When the subject of energy comes up, I’ve heard a number of intelligent people defend nuclear power as a favorable alternative to coal-fired plants. In recent years, a smattering of environmentalists...
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Monday Links: March 31, 2008
Another weekend yields to Monday. Yikes. Jarred and I have been a little distracted and preoccupied with our alma mater‘s storybook run to the Elite 8 of the NCAA tournament. While heartbreaking, a...
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Suburban Life In Perspective
I can’t call this a “money quote,” but it might qualify as a “mind-numbing quote.” Via NPR: The average Atlanta resident with a job drives 66 miles every day. In fact, people here drive so much that if...
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Monday Links: April 7, 2008
Sorry for the delay in posting these links, folks. I’ve been traveling, and I’m just now getting back to bloggin’. Unlike some people, I’m determined to make it through the 826 unread items in my...
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Monday Links: April 14th, 2008
Happy Monday. I decided to start the week (sharing with coworkers, naturally) with Whole Wheat Apple Muffins, following this recipe from Smitten Kitchen. Del.icio.us. (nerd joke!). Enjoy a few links as...
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Monday Links: April 21st, 2008
Another week closer to Spring…or so we hope. This week’s links are very heavy on environmental stories. I apologize for the one-dimensionality, but Jarred has some Web 2.0 stuff planned for this week...
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Monday Links: May 12, 2008
Since I was so focused on philanthropy blogging last week, I have a backlog of environmental and web 2.0 news to share. This could be a long list of links, but it should keep you busy for a while....
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Monday Links: May 19th, 2008
As always, your Monday Links (I’m off to a slow start this morning, so they’re a little late): This article from the NY Times Technology section describes a really neat idea for an online marketplace...
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Monday Links: May 26th, 2008
Happy Memorial Day to everyone. Monday Links are a little late today, but nobody is at work to read them anyway, so enjoy these on Tuesday Morning: In case you didn’t know, geeks rule. David Brooks...
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On Prizes and Progress
Last month John McCain made a campaign promise that, if elected, he would champion a $300 million prize to develop an inexpensive and powerful automotive battery that could “leapfrog” current...
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The Future of Power
A guest post by James Q. First off, I want to thank Jarred for inviting me to guest post on Tropophilia. I’ve been following the blog since its inception and have been nothing but impressed. I hope I...
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Carbon Neutral for a Day
You may remember that way back when Tropophilia received free carbon offsets from Move Neutral, a carbon-offset company based out of Austin, TX. We’ve also featured a badge in our sidebar as part of...
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Food for Thought (Sorry for the Silence)
Hey folks. I’m back after a long day-job-driven haitus. Things have been hectic, and the best way to jump back in seems to be some quick-blogging of items I’ve found intriguing over the past few...
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In Science, FAIL = WIN
In April, I wrote about a little debate some coworkers and I were having about whether politics could be studied scientifically, and whether that approach was valid (I said it could be, and that it was...
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