who will buy the world’s
melting glaciers?

RWE, Vivendi, & Suez

Editor’s note: Although only about 5% of the world’s water resources are privatized, this is up from practically nothing only ten years ago, and the scale of this transfer of ownership is huge. World water withdrawals annually run a whopping 3,300 cubic kilometers, and usage is [...]

What Shortage?

Mount Shasta – Source of the Sacramento River

Editor’s note: Each year about fifty cubic kilometers of fresh water are captured by California’s reservoirs and released through a system of massive canals and aquaducts to points throughout the state. About twice that, roughly 100 cubic kilometers, comprise the total rainfall received in California in [...]

San Francisco
California

Editor’s note: Not only does it take about eight quadrillion BTU’s of energy per year to run California’s burgeoning economy, but annual water withdrawals in California, just from reservoirs, run a whopping twelve cubic miles! Most of California’s cities are built in arid or semi-arid regions that receive little or no water from [...]

India Building Large-Scale Solar Thermal Capacity

Parabolic Trough Array
Brighton, Colorado, USA
photo: US D.O.E.

Editor’s Note: Just as on a small scale, hybrid engines stretch a gallon of gas, in the same manner a hybrid power plant can stretch its own supply of fossil fuel. In India, a huge new power station using hybrid systems is [...]

Jonathon Brewer
Earthworks Environmental Founder

Editor’s note: As often as not, technology and free-enterprise are forces that can save the environment. A perfect example is Jonathan Brewer’s company EarthWorks Environmental, with a technology that transforms polluted soil into soil clean enough to grow crops. But delivering a technological solution is only the beginning of [...]