**WAYPOINTS
Waypoints 78.0: Nuclear Primer with Steve Crandall; August 22, 2008
waypoints-78-nuclear-primer.pdf
**RESOURCES
BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy
The Sustainable Development Commission http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/
The Danish Wind Energy Association
DEFRA http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/
Argonne’s GREET model http://www.transportation.anl.gov/modeling_simulation/GREET/
(example of one of hundreds of great modeling tools available …
the warning is you have to understand them to get useful information)
Science
Nature
SciAm (review level at a non-technical level)
Science News (very current, very high level overviews – but good starting place)
The IPCC Panel reports are well worth reading and are free online
There are organizations with good info – I make great use of these (from Steve Crandall)
http://www.worldenergy.org/
http://www.iea.org/
http://www.energy.gov/
http://www.eia.doe.gov/
http://www.nrel.gov/
http://www.eere.energy.gov/
**BLOGS:
There are MANY. We’re only highlighting a few – ping us if you’d like more suggestions.
http://www.earth2tech.com
Our fellow Om Malik of GigaOm founded this site that discusses the intersection of clean tech and tech & telecom.
http://www.realclimate.org/
Recommended by fellow Steve Crandall as one of the few that is accurate.
For current news … generally low quality info, but starting points, consider:
http://www.triplepundit.com/
http://www.treehugger.com/ (very current, but often astonishingly wrong)
http://e360.yale.edu/
http://cleantechinvesting.greentechmedia.com/ (very opinionated and technical content is sometimes wrong)
http://www.greenleapforward.com
“Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution that is greening China’s red-hot economy”. Helpful on “green” in China – written by Fulbright Scholar Julian Wong who we met in Beijing at the JUUCCE Conference in Nov. 2008.
**VIDEOS & PRESENTATIONS
**Dr. Albert Bartlett on the Exponential Growth of the Human Population
This link will lead you to the beginning of 8 in a series of 10 minute lectures. the
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=LqcHG7QUK9k
Thought provoking analysis of the argument that exponential growth of human population will cause greater competition for resources.
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is its inability to understand the exponential function”
“Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food”.
**NOVA: SAVED BY THE SUN
The PBS science program Nova gives an useful easy to digest overview of solar power systems.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/
**PODCASTS:
MIT is putting together some great introductory courses. Many of these will eventually be online.
**RELEVANT READING LIST:
The Clock of the Long Now: Time & Responsibility. By Stewart Brand
Why its relevant: The book describes differences in results when thinking near term vs. very, very long term, for example, Native Americans that aimed to make decisions based on how it would impact seven generations after them.
The Hot Topic by King and Walker
Recommended by Steve Crandall as “one of the best crossover books between science and the general public”
Winning the Oil Endgame by Amory Lovins
Cod by Mark Kurlansky & Oysters: History on a Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky
Very entertaining reads that offer some history of fishing and the results of over-fishing.
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, by Tony Blair, Hans Joachim Schelinhuber, Wolfgang Cramer, Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Recommended by our fellow Steve Crandall.
The Origin of Wealth by Eric D. Beinhocker
Why its relevant: The book is not explicitly about clean tech or climate changes, its about how the economy acts like an adaptive organism. What’s relevant is his discussion on the human ability to evolve and adapt (or not).
