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2011

July

• Thought of the Day

May

• My New Favorite Quote

2010

December

• Thoughts on a Book: “Where Good Ideas Come From”

February

• Visiting a Village--Part 1

• A Story on Super Bowl Sunday

January

• First Experiences With Bangladesh and Grameen

• First Blog Post From Bangladesh--Actually, From the Bahrain Airport

2009

August

• Reducing “The High Cost of Being Poor”

May

• Green Microfinance: Advancing Social Equality and Environmental Sustainability in the United States

April

• The Commencement Speech That Never Was

• Hearing Dr. Muhammad Yunus Speak in Queens, New York

• Social Business and The Genius of Muhammad Yunus

March

• Microfinance, Microfinance and more Microfinance

February

• The Price of Solar Plummets, Vindicating Visionaries

January

• A New Logo For Two New Endeavors!

• Let’s Get Joe the Investor Invested in the Green Economy

• Dream Forcefully, Speak Loudly, Act Boldly

• How Access to Information Can Tackle Poverty and Pollution

2008

December

• Coal is Dead: Coal Ash Spill Yet Another Reason to Switch to Renewable Energy

• Winning a Grant, and Other Exciting News

• Considering All the Benefits of Residential Renewable Energy is Critical

• Executive Summary of the Capital Good Fund Business Plan

• A Financing Mechanism Powerful Enough to Catalyze the Green Economy

• Too Big To Fail, Too Powerful to Regulate

November

• Don’t Forget the Green Collar Entrepreneurs

• Something Profound is Transpiring

October

• Joe Hill vs. Joe the Plumber

• A Great Speech Confronting Racism Against Obama

• Why We Just Need 306,000 People to Say Thanks, But No Thanks, To Offshore Drilling

September

• How About A $700 Billion Bailout for the Climate?

• An Exciting Update on the Micro-Credit Project!

• A Conglomerate for Good

August

• Fossil Fuels Are the Bottled Water of Energy

• A Historic Moment

• I Am Now A LEED Accredited Professional!

• The Garmin 705: Making Cycling Even More Efficient and Fun

• Dealing With The Variability of Renewable Energy Forces Us To be Smart

• Movie Review: ‘The Dark Knight’

• Two Models for Financing the Energy Revolution

• A Solution to the Limited Success of Micro-Credit in the United States?

• Why Cycling is To Transportation What Efficiency is to Energy

• Car? What Car?. . .Hauling Furniture By Bicycle

• Throwing Out “Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.”

July

• A New Ethics of Consumption

• My Challenge to America: Don’t Ignore Gore’s Speech

• Al Gore Gives Electrifying Speech, Calls for 100% Renewable Electricity Within 10 Years

• Cyclists, Motorists and the Law

• Micro-Credit, Major Impact

• Tortillas, Ethanol, and High Fructose Corn Syrup

• Residential Wind Installations on the Rise, Some Barriers Remain

• Small Is Beautiful. . .Right?

• Worried Wind Will Spoil the View? Float The Turbine Out to Sea!

• more test

• How Renewable Energy Can Resolve the Iranian Nuclear Issue

• Want to Save the World?  Be Happy and Have Fun Doing It!

June

• Cycling Has An Image Problem

• You Don’t Have to be Gandhi: Why Anyone Can Save the World

• The Future of Our Transportation System is Electric

• Quote of the Day

• Americans Feeling Pain at the Pump, But That’s Only Half the Story

March

• Climate Change Commercial

• Decoupling: The Answer to the Health Care and Climate Crises?

• Fascinating Youtube Video

• Data Acquisition vs. Data Overload

February

• amazing youtube video

2007

December

• A Celebration of the Amateur

• The Two-Way Street of Development

November

• Case Study: Debs Park, California

• A New Mantra

• Statement of Purpose

• Book Review: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

October

• Movie Review: Into The Wild

• What It Is Really About

• The ESA Project

September

• Why Build Green?

• Lessons From the Past: Moving into the 22nd Century

• Movie Review: In The Valley of Elah

• Is Climate Change a Moral Issue?

• The Real-World Comes to Class

August

• Growth or No Growth: That is NOT The Question

• Move Review: The Eleventh Hour

July

• Britain Claims it Can Be Carbon Neutral By 2027

• What About The Mercury in Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs?

• Ethanol Could Leave the World Hungry

• Interesting Article About Celebrities and their “Pet Causes”

• Live Earth: What is it Really Going to Accomplish?

• Current Plans

June

• Welcome

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• Thought of the Day
• My New Favorite Quote
• Thoughts on a Book: “Where Good Ideas Come From”
• Visiting a Village--Part 1
• A Story on Super Bowl Sunday
• First Experiences With Bangladesh and Grameen
• First Blog Post From Bangladesh--Actually, From the Bahrain Airport
• Reducing “The High Cost of Being Poor”
• Green Microfinance: Advancing Social Equality and Environmental Sustainability in the United States
• The Commencement Speech That Never Was

• Meet My New Folding Bike! (Poetry & Musings)
• Green Microfinance: Advancing Social Equality and Environmental Sustainability in the United States (Ideas)
• Executive Summary of the Capital Good Fund Business Plan (Ideas)
• A Solution to the Limited Success of Micro-Credit in the United States? (Ideas)
• Photos of Some Upgrades to My Bikes! (Poetry & Musings)

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• I Am
• If You Stay
• Vicissitudes: A Sonnet
• An Antediluvian Sadness
• The Eternal Law
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• Who Doesn’t Want Peace?
• When The Departed Still Remain
• The Sanguine Sinews

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