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Green China Rising
By Julio Friedmann I had the pleasure of visiting a clean-energy project just outside of Shanghai last year. The project installed brand new equipment on a large coal-fired power plant to capture...
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The Elusive Inventory of Your Projects
By David AllenOne of the most bizarre phenomena I have encountered in 30 years of working closely with some of the brightest and busiest people in the world is how difficult it is for most to grasp...
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Why Can't We Talk About Virtue? Entrenched Cynicism
By Kentaro ToyamaI go back and forth on whether the topic of virtue is worth a public airing. After all, much of it is obvious, it's not new in and of itself, and it's too easy to slip into glib,...
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Dealing With Bad Surprises
By David AllenAs I continue to explore how best to coach executives dealing with the slings and arrows of their outrageous fortunes, my solution du jour is simple: optimize how you deal with surprise....
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Fostering Virtue
By Kentaro ToyamaAs much as I liked Narasimha, my favorite mode of travel within India was the auto-rickshaw. The word "rickshaw" comes from "jin riki sha" (人力車), which means "human-powered vehicle" in...
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An Unabashed, Unsolicited, Uncensored Endorsement
By David AllenIt's now late night in my home office in Ojai, California. I just saw my previous two blogs for Jim posted on the site, musing about what I might be moved to write about next. Nothing. (I...
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A Way to Think About Converting Units of Measurement
By Julio FriedmannOne of the more obnoxious issues facing energy specialists is the constant need to convert units. We have to convert megawatts to kilowatt-hours to tons CO2 to cost of electricity in...
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Lost in Transition
By Kentaro Toyama"Do you worry about whether you've buried the entrails deep enough?" was among the questions I heard at my first Transition meeting, in Albany, California. The meeting featured an...
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Saving the Planet: Just Like Cleaning Our Room
By Julio Friedmann When I think about the climate and the atmosphere and the harsh mathematics of greenhouse gas accumulations, I have good days and bad days. On the bad days, I think about how hard it...
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Why We Need a Quadrennial Energy Review
By Julio FriedmannOn good days, when I'm more optimistic about achieving our needs in climate and energy, I imagine that we as a country or globe will wake up and realize we need to clean our room (see...
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The Italian Press's Tradition of Fake Interviews
By Michele TraviersoOne would think, maybe callously, that Japan's earthquake-cum-tsunami-cum-nuclear crisis would provide more than enough stories to report. Alas, the scale of the tragedy is so big,...
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Gradual Return, Featuring Huntsman and Ryan
I am physically just back from China; mentally still lost and adrift somewhere in the noosphere; and in body-clock terms -- well, how convenient that Salvador Dali so precisely imagined the state of my...
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Dear Spammers: Where Has the Pride Gone?
In the wake of the huge Epsilon data breach, we've all been warned to expect a wave of newly sophisticated "spear phishing" attacks. These will come from spammers who now (thanks to Epsilon) know our...
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Aviation Bests and Worsts: New Orleans, New York
In honor of retired air traffic maestro Don Brown's recent stint as a guest in this space, here are two real-world recordings of pilot-controller interactions in the past week, illustrating the best...
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Third World on the Potomac
What's the mark of a Third World country? I've seen a lot of them, and to me the clearest trait is the squalor of the public realm.The rich people in your standard dictatorship/kleptocracy of course do...
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The Brave and Serious Mr. Ryan
I mentioned earlier that if asked to choose an adjective to describe the budget plan presented by Rep. Paul Ryan, I would suggest "partisan" or "gimmicky," as opposed to "serious" or "brave." Most...
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Government-Shutdown Watch: An Inside View
I mentioned yesterday the uncertainty tax that the possible government shutdown was imposing on "normal" government operations, as people from National Park employees to members of the military tried...
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Now For Something Completely Different: CloudMagic
There is lots more in the hopper -- budget deals, an elegy to past guest bloggers, Chinese crackdown, reader mail, and so on. But just to change the pace, a little tech tip:If you are using Gmail, and...
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Dylan, Dowd, and China: Did Bob Really Sell Out?
Maureen Dowd, writing from Washington DC, is wroth about Bob Dylan's failure to stand up to The Man in his concert in Beijing this week. "Bob Dylan may have done the impossible: broken creative new...
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Dylan, Dowd, Bjork, and Beijing: More on Foreign Artists in China
Earlier today I mentioned that the on-scene reaction to Bob Dylan's recent concerts in China was quite different from the tut-tutting and "outrage" that many Americans were expressing over Dylan's...
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