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  • EcoGeek of the Week: Karl Schroeder

    Karl Schroeder is the second science fiction writer to come out of the southern Manitoba Mennonite community (after A.E. van Vogt). Born in 1962, Karl grew up in a household full of books. He moved to Toronto in 1986 to pursue a dream of being a

  • EcoGeek of the Week: Gavin D.J. Harper

    A year ago when we saw an article at MAKE: on how to make a fuel cell out of a band aid we knew we had to get in touch with this guy. Gavin D.J. Harper is a frequent contributor to EcoGeek and has written several books in McGraw Hill's "Evil Genius"

  • Ask the EcoGeek: How Can I Make My Computer Efficient?

    My parents are always bugging me about computer usage and how the computers are sucking up energy. I want to know what I can do so that my computer doesn't waste so much energy? I totally wanna go green and save the Earth from Global

  • EcoGeek of the Week: Josh Dorfman

    I've just finished reading The Lazy Environmentalist by Josh Dorfman. While not every chapter was for me (babies and children?!) the book contains a gigantic amount of information on how to make good, informed, green decisions. Without condescension or

  • Ask the EcoGeek: Walking Worse than Driving? No.

    Dear EcoGeek, I just saw a kinda disturbing article on fark.com and wondered what you would think of it. Could walking really be worse of the environment than driving? - Seulswalker

  • EcoGeek of the Week: Ron Hochstetler on Airships

    When Ron Hochstetler graduated from Purdue with a degree in aviation technology, he didn't know how different his path would be from the other graduates of his class. Though trained to work with the helicopters and jets that we today associate air

  • Ask the EcoGeek: Can I Have My EV Now?

    Alan Carney Dallas Texas

  • EcoGeek of the Week: Jonathon Colman

    Jonathon D. Colman is the Senior Manager of Digital Marketing at The Nature Conservancy. As such, it's kinda his job to understand the wild ways of the internet and then to harness it's raw power for the forces of awesome. Of course, The Nature

  • Ask the EcoGeek: Durable Bio-Plastics

    Dear EcoGeek, Have there been any developments in the pursuit of sustainable, cost-effective alternatives to plastics? I am aware of the recent gains in using corn starch to produce biodegradible plastics (chocolate candy trays, shopping bags, etc.),

  • EcoGeek of the Week: Tobias Buckell

    Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer who grew up in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has published stories in various magazines and anthologies. He is a Clarion graduate, Writers of The

  • Ask the EcoGeek: Green Driving at Six Feet Tall

    My 04 Prius has 60k miles and is worse for wear and I'm too tall to comfortably drive it any longer. I can't help but think the Bluetec is a

  • EcoGeek of the Week: Ron Pernick

    Maybe my ears are just pointed in a very specific direction, but it seems rare when a day passes and I don't hear someone extolling the possibilities of clean technology. But it's not entirely clear what clean technology encompasses and how this very

  • Ask the EcoGeek: The Power Cost of Solar

    David Spokane, WA Short Answer: Those

  • EcoGeek of the Week: Daniel Quinn

    Daniel Quinn, I think, is more a thinker than a writer. His ideas are what change the world, his books are merely attempts to explain his somewhat unique worldview.

  • Ask the EcoGeek: Muscle Power

    I was thinking, what if each member of my

  • EcoGeek of the Week: Scott Cronce, CTO of EA

    Just because I love the actual world doesn't mean I'm not a pretty big fan of virtual worlds as well. Some have said that actively seeking out fake worlds to explore and enjoy is be a symptom of alienation from or even disdain for the environment. But

  • Ask the EcoGeek: Recycling CDs

    The perpetual scourge of EcoGeekiness is obsolescence. We pay good money for what we see as a good product, and then five years down the line we're surrounded by useless junk!

  • Book Review: The Clean Tech Revolution

    We Treehuggers know there's something big going down. Every week there's more and more clean technology news and we're happy to report it. Bigger wind farms, better solar panels, alternative fuels, and ultra efficient architecture are all part

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