This week’s headlines looks at the latest controversy around genetically modified foods, an energy roadshow by GE touting its latest gas turbine technology, the evidence for water on Mars and Vesta, the opening of charging stations in California for electric cars, and a cityR

Welcome to this week’s 21st Century Technology headlines. Each week I select a few interesting stories about technological innovation that more often helps rather than hurts the planet as we humans tackle the problems we face this century. As always I encourage you to comment, ask que

The proposal is called “trigeneration.” The city is Sydney, Australia. The plan is to use city roofs and basements to become local sources of power generation to supplement and eventually replace coal-fired power responsible for 80% of Sydney’s greenhouse gas emissio

In a previous blog we talked about the challenges and promise of mining waste for energy. North America’s largest landfill and waste removal company, Waste Management Inc., today mines half of its 266 landfill sites in the United States and Canada for methane gas collected from

What’s does humanity output more than anything else? Garbage…about 5 billion tons of it a year. When you consider that the planet’s population is close to 7 billion, that means each of us is responsible for producing more than 3/4 of a ton of trash each year. What do

Humanity has mastered fire and shaped it to become the means of our present civilization. But the burning of carbon-based fuels has enormous implications for the planet as our population grows, and as energy demands climb. We are in the throes of a paradigm shift around energy, how we