Travelers going through New York City these days are experiencing similar disruptions due to excessive snow falls caused by a blizzard like many travelers in Europe a week ago. New York’s airports shut down and cancelled hundreds of flights, railroad companies switched to weekend or holiday schedules and driving became a nightmare as snowplows struggled [...]
Like tens of thousands of travellers across Europe, I got stuck at Berlin’s Tegel airport (TXL) for more than 10 hours on my way from Miami to Munich, Germany just a few days ago. Leaving Miami on a sunny day with temperatures well above 70 degrees, I arrived in Berlin about 9.5 hours later, hoping to make [...]
Unlike any other species on this planet, humans have made significant changes to the surface of the earth. Rather than adapting to their environment, humans successfully changed it to suit their way of life. Over the millennia, this has led to unprecedented wealth. However, this wealth is unevenly distributed. To date, a high level of [...]
As part of the research for my research paper “On the Threshold to a New Energy Age“, I conducted a survey in order to find out how “prepared” people are for the transition to a new age of energy generation and use as well as to gather opinions on current trends in energy issues.
In the [...]
Who can save us from climate disaster? Well, probably those whom you’d the least suspect to care about climate change.
Even if one in ten Americans turned into a tree-hugger, sold their car, moved downtown and commuted to work on a bicycle, that wouldn’t have any impressive, lasting impact on global emissions of greenhouse gases.
American oil consumption [...]
