In a recent post, GOOD magazine’s website assesses the energy savings of introducing smart-grid technology to our energy grid, but the post and the study it cites fail to address the larger issues of America’s ailing energy infrastructure.  According to the American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Energy Infrastructure report card, the U.S. received a [...]

China is beating us in everything. Growth in China over the past decade has been nothing short of astonishing, but that doesn’t necessarily mean China is going to become a gas-guzzling, resource-consuming monster that will bring the rest of the world down with it. In addition to the recent news claiming some parts of China [...]

What, exactly, does it mean to eat locally? For some strict localvores, it could mean deriving one’s whole diet from what grows within a 100-mile…