Blogs & Ecology

This is the first of a two-part column on solutions for raising energy efficiency. As I note in http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB3/Contents.htm">Plan B 3.0, the production, processing, and disposal of material in our modern throwaway economy wastes not only material but energy as well, thus producing unnecessary, climate-disrupting carbon dioxide emissions. For Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek and Ernst von Weizsäcker, two early leaders in this area, have argued that modern industrial economies could function very effectively using only one fourth the virgin raw material prevailing at the...