Now an NYC refugee, Curtiss P. Martin serves as a contributing editor of all things clean and green at ScribeMedia. When he isn’t out on the road or in the field researching and reporting on controversial science and tech topics, Curtiss can be found communing with the creative kids at the Elsewhere artist collaborative in Greensboro, NC.
Archive for Curtiss P. Martin
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Ethanol or Lithium: Pick Your Poison
Electric car demand has some wondering if there’s enough lithium in the world for the batteries—Chile could be the new Saudi Arabia.
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Learning by heart is ‘pointless for Google generation’
Schoolchildren should no longer be forced to memorise facts and figures because such information is readily available on the internet, a leading commentator claims.
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The 10 Big Energy Myths c/o The Guardian UK
There has never been a more important time to invest in green technologies, yet many of us believe these efforts are doomed to failure. What nonsense, writes Chris Goodall in The Guardian UK.
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Viridian Design & Aesthetic Catharsis
Gettin’ Viridian in order to get back at ya’ / Bruce Sterling’s closing Viridian note.
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I’m back and ready for action…ya’ll.
Article: Cleantech, you dirty whore. I’m through with you as a singular industry, entity or haphazard buzzword. Cleantech will not save us from our problems. No singular industry, design principle or movement will solve the issues that plague us and threaten our way of life. But don’t worry, there’s good news…
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Ariella Maron on Sustainability in NYC
Video: The average New Yorker produces one-third the greenhouse gas emissions when compared to the average American citizen. With smaller personal footprints and with more transit oriented communities, the density of New York is scaled such that its planners and citizens are forced to consider the social implications of sustainability.
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Jonathan Fink on Sustainability
Video: Jonathan Fink is the Director for the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is also the university’s sustainability officer, a position within the president’s office at ASU. Fink is also an accomplished vulcanologist, but that’s another story…
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Wal-Mart’s Janelle Kearsley on Sustainability
Video: Janelle Kearsley, the Director of Strategy & Sustainability at Wal-Mart is charged with educating and inspiring 1.8 million associates to integrate sustainability into their business operations. This includes Wal-Mart’s executives all the way down to the truck drivers and local buyers for each store.
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Jim Hunt on Sustainability
Video: Jim Hunt, the Chief of Environment and Energy for the City of Boston, believes that some of the best drivers for sustainability are innovative financial models, not new technologies. Though solar panels and wind turbines are promising to both governments and businesses, it is the funding and support of these technologies that gets them off the ground and into people’s hands.
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Ray Anderson on Sustainable Operations
Video: Ray Anderson, founder of InterfaceFLOR, Inc., faced a difficult question 21 years into his successful modular carpet company. His customers, particularly interior designers, were asking what Interface was doing for the environment. For the longest time, Anderson could only answer that his company was complying with regulation, but when he was pressured into giving a speech on august 31, 1994, he knew he had to reach for a deeper, fuller answer.
