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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Africa — Goodwill Testbed for Cleantech Development?
Article: Wouldn’t Sub Saharan Africa be an ideal place for developing solar thermal systems a la the aforementioned Ausra? Granted, there are various externalities and difficulties involved in placing cutting edge tech in developing countries, but wouldn’t this also be putting these technologies to best use? Developing countries are an ideal environment in which to prove the validity and scalability of new clean technologies — especially ones that purport to produce cheap electricity from naturally abundant resources.
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Chipping Away at Container Shipping or “How I stopped worrying and learned to love the blog”
ARTICLE: I couldn’t come to terms with how this could be possible — that a seemingly innocuous ship could produce as much air pollution as 26 football fields of idling cars…in an hour. So, I began to dig.
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Curtiss’ Green Stuff Vol 2 – Big, Bad, Biofuels
ARTICLE: I’ve been telling people for a while now that a lot of people in the Clean Technology space are going to lose their shirts on ‘dumb biofuels.’ What exactly are dumb biofuels? They’re one-dimensional, wasteful, inflexible, resource-hungry and tech-heavy fuels such as corn-, palm- and soy-based ethanol and biodiesel.
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Curtiss’ Green Stuff Vol 1 – Weekly Cleantech Roundup
ARTICLE: A weekly smattering of clean technology news and innovation, culled from the turbulent trenches of the interweb.
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Better living through Biochar?
Article: Biochar has all the makings of a great story and, perhaps, a really great solution to several serious issues – a fabulously low-tech process offers the potential to reduce carbon emissions, improve soil fertility and mitigate agricultural wastes all at the same time.
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The Efficiencies of Joy
Video: Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy ruminates on the necessary deployment of old technologies, the development of new innovations and the possibility for achieving Armory Lovins’ ‘factor four’, wherein societies are capable of using one fourth the energy and natural resources to achieve the same level of comfort. Joy is joined by Ed Crooks, energy editor of the Financial Times.
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The Clean Revolution
Make no mistake about it, the relationship between the Internet and clean technology is much more than casual. Anyone familiar with the key player’s (Vinod Khosla, Elon Musk, Larry and Sergey, etc.) in the dot-com boom (and subsequent bust) will recognize a few names bandied about in wave after wave of clean tech news releases and press reports.
This past January, an article appeared in the New York Times that linked Silicon Valley’s recent employment bonanza to the tremendous increases in clean tech investment.
