Today’s Solutions: September 18, 2024

Environment

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Consuming more energy is the f

Consuming more energy is the fastest way to saving the environment

Often we hear about how important energy conservation is, but what if the fastest way to save the environment was to consume more energy? Consuming more energy will push the energy solutions we have to be more to be more efficient, and drive human ingenuity to come up with the next big Read More...

Damned lies and statistics

Damned lies and statistics

Amy Domini | July/August 2011 issue As a kid on Cape Cod, I’d get really frustrated with a ground-dwelling bird that lived all around us. The Virginia quail (or bobwhite) had the most annoying call. At dawn it would start in, tentatively, “Bob? Bob White?” This would repeat until you Read More...