Theme: Sustainability
Environmental issues, climate, green tech
Articles about Sustainability
- The Carbon Illusion – Part 1: Displacement in the Name of Climate Neutrality
- The Contested Circle – Part 1: Beyond Take-Make-Waste: The Promise and Physics of Perfect Loops
- The Invisible Economy - Part 1: The Ragpicker's Dream: Unearthing the Invisible Agents of the Ancient Scrap Trade
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 1: The Power of Proof
- The Gravity Engine: Ancient Water Systems That Shaped Civilization - Part 1: Qanat: The Gravity-Fed Engine of Persian Oases
- Bio-Architectural Blueprint - Part 1: Diurnal Cycles and Convective Ventilation
- The New Thermal Divide - Part 1: Anatomy of an Invisible Killer
- The Velocity Trap – Part 1: The Acceleration Paradox and the Law of Friction
- The Rebuilt Human – Part 1: The Biological Assembly and the Bearing Paradox
- Bio-Inspired Resilience - Part 1: The Wood Wide Web-How Electrical Signals and Fungi Create a Forest Brain
- The Maintenance Logic – Part 1: The Rust Tax and the Molecular Rebellion
- The Tectonic Clock – Part 1: Living on the Fraying Edge of Planetary Calm
- The Carbon Illusion – Part 2: The Dark Engine of Charcoal: Burning the Carbon Sink
- The Contested Circle – Part 2: Green Growth's Illusion: Why Efficiency Alone Cannot Sustain the System
- The Invisible Economy - Part 2: Recycling at the Highest Levels: Elite Reuse in Imperial Roman and Abbasid Courts
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 1: The Power of Proof
- The Gravity Engine: Ancient Water Systems That Shaped Civilization - Part 2: Yakhchāl: Harnessing Radiative Cooling in the Desert
- Bio-Architectural Blueprint - Part 2: Solar Geometry and Thermal Gradients
- The New Thermal Divide - Part 2: From Savanna to City-Humanity's Failed Adaptation
- The Velocity Trap – Part 2: The Physicality of the Cloud and the Weight of Light
- The Rebuilt Human – Part 2: The Friction of the Flesh and the Socket Dilemma
- Bio-Inspired Resilience - Part 2: Ant Colonies as Superorganisms-When Simple Rules Create Stabilizing Hysteresis
- The Maintenance Logic – Part 2: The Cathedral Code and the Architecture of Longevity
- The Tectonic Clock – Part 2: The Shadow of Toba: Super-Eruptions and Volcanic Winter
- The Carbon Illusion – Part 3: The Myth of the Monoculture: Why Native Savannah Stores Triple the Carbon
- The Contested Circle – Part 3: The Systemic Choke Points: Overcoming the Economic and Logistical Barriers
- The Invisible Economy - Part 3: The Secret Life of Shards: Tracing the Ubiquitous Circularity of Glass and Textiles
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 2: The Red Stack
- The Gravity Engine: Ancient Water Systems That Shaped Civilization - Part 3: Hypocaust: Engineering Radiant Heat for Roman Comfort
- Bio-Architectural Blueprint - Part 3: Internal Architecture Revealed by Tomography
- The New Thermal Divide - Part 3: Global Collapse: How Heat Scrambles Ecosystems and Food Supplies
- The Velocity Trap – Part 3: The Jevons Paradox and the Efficiency Illusion
- The Rebuilt Human – Part 3: The Ergonomic Fallacy and the Myth of the Average
- Bio-Inspired Resilience - Part 3: Bee Democracy-Balancing Speed and Accuracy Through Quorum Sensing
- The Maintenance Logic – Part 3: The Digital Decay and the Hidden Debt of Code
- The Tectonic Clock – Part 3: Fire or Ice: The Climate Paradox of the Interglacial Age
- The Carbon Illusion – Part 4: Certification Compromised: When Audits Ignore Violence and Water Loss
- The Contested Circle – Part 4: Quantifying the Decoupling: How Circularity Mitigates Carbon and Secures Supply
- The Invisible Economy - Part 4: Beyond Utility: The Functional, Aesthetic, and Spiritual Dimensions of Reuse in Antiquity
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 3: The Electric Drive
- The Gravity Engine: Ancient Water Systems That Shaped Civilization - Part 4: Barbagal Mill: Automation and the Cascade of Roman Power
- Bio-Architectural Blueprint - Part 4: Biomimicry in Action-The Eastgate Centre
- The New Thermal Divide - Part 4: Accountability and the Future of a Superheated Planet
- The Velocity Trap – Part 4: High-Frequency Fragility and the Algorithmic Ghost
- The Rebuilt Human – Part 4: The Bionic Kinetic Chain and the Final Frontier
- Bio-Inspired Resilience - Part 4: Coral Reefs-The Built-in Redundancy of Nature's Symbiotic Cities
- The Maintenance Logic – Part 4: Predictive Sovereignty and the Future of Stewardship
- The Tectonic Clock – Part 4: Skyscraper Waves: When Oceanic Collapse Devastates Continents
- The Carbon Illusion – Part 5: From Minas Gerais Furnaces to Hamburg’s "Sustainable" Subway
- The Contested Circle – Part 5: The Mandate of Justice: Governance, Labor, and the Equitable Framework
- The Invisible Economy - Part 5: Decoding the Data Gap: Unlocking Ancient Circularity through Archaeology and Archives
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 4: Winning the Heat War
- The Gravity Engine: Ancient Water Systems That Shaped Civilization - Part 5: Aqueducts: Mastering Pressure with the Roman Siphon
- Bio-Architectural Blueprint - Part 5: Computational Modeling for Future Applications
- The Velocity Trap – Part 5: Toward a Steady-State Logic and the Synthesis of Survival
- Bio-Inspired Resilience - Part 5: Applying Biomimicry to Human Systems-Building Robustness from Nature's Blueprint
- The Tectonic Clock – Part 5: Beyond the Cradle: The Unavoidable Calculus of Cosmic Risk
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 5: The Physical Ceiling
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 6: Sunshine Squared
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 7: Beyond Fossil Fuels
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability - Part 8: The Gigawatt Gambit
- From Milkman to Landfill: How Convenience Killed the True Circular Economy
- The Circular Mirage: When Sustainability Recycles Problems, Not Solutions
- Carbon Illusion
- The Material Mind – Part 4: The Anatomy of Silicon
- The Material Mind – Part 3: The Anatomy of Plastic
- The Material Mind – Part 2: The Anatomy of Cement
- The Material Mind – Part 1: The Anatomy of Steel
- The Material Mind: The Anatomy of Modern Substance
- The Unnatural Economy - Part 5: The Corporate Jungle: The High Cost of the "Not Invented Here" Syndrome
- The Unnatural Economy - Part 4: The Zero-Waste Blueprint: Fungi, Mussels, and Green Chemistry
- The Unnatural Economy - Part 3: Dragging the Past: From Sharkskin to Supersonic Efficiency
- The Unnatural Economy - Part 2: The Spiral Mandate: Why Nature Never Uses a Straight Line
- The Unnatural Economy - Part 1: The One Percent Solution: Why 3.8 Billion Years of R&D Matters
- The Unnatural Economy: Reclaiming Nature's 3.8 Billion Year Design Manual
- Part 5: The Rainbow Bridge and the Feedback Loop: Climate Risk and the Poverty of Persuasion
- Part 4: The Economic Calculus of Cruelty: Distancing, Blindness, and the Revenges of the CAFO
- Part 3: Longevity's Hidden Tax: The Dynamic Justice of Intergenerational Caregiving
- Part 2: When Compassion Clashes with the Oath: Physicians as Arbiters of Static Justice
- Part 1: The Prisoner of Choice: How the Two Selves Betray Our Living Wills
- What They Don't Tell You About Electric Cars
- The Perpetual Power Loop - Part 5: Trash to Treasure: High-Value Products from Plastic and Agro-Food Waste
- The Perpetual Power Loop - Part 4: From Crops to Catalysts: Repurposing Lignocellulose in the Circular Chemical Industry
- The Perpetual Power Loop - Part 3: The Sun and the Grid: Building Resilient Energy Systems with Circular Solar Power
- The Perpetual Power Loop - Part 2: Lithium's Second Life: Powering Tomorrow with Closed-Loop Storage Materials
- The Perpetual Power Loop
- The Perpetual Power Loop - Part 1: The Great Recycling Revolution: 10 R's Transforming Energy Systems
- Beyond the Tailpipe: Unmasking the EV Revolution - Part 5: The Road Ahead: How Better Batteries and Smarter Grids Can Deliver the EV Promise
- Beyond the Tailpipe: Unmasking the EV Revolution - Part 4: The Real Climate Fix: Why Better Buses Beat Buying a New Electric Car
- Beyond the Tailpipe: Unmasking the EV Revolution - Part 3: Subsidies, Sprawl, and $7.5 Billion: The True Cost of Electric Adoption
- Beyond the Tailpipe: Unmasking the EV Revolution - Part 2: From Congo to Charger: Who Really Pays the Price for Clean Driving?
- Beyond the Tailpipe: Unmasking the EV Revolution
- Beyond the Tailpipe: Unmasking the EV Revolution - Part 1: The Electric Lie? Unpacking the Hidden Carbon Cost of Manufacturing Your EV Battery
- Arid Ambition - Part 5: The Mirage of Augmentation and the Looming End
- Arid Ambition - Part 4: Teton and the Price of Engineering Hubris
- Arid Ambition - Part 3: The Gods of Concrete and the Pork Barrel
- Arid Ambition - Part 2: The Syndicate That Stole a River
- Arid Ambition - Part 1: John Wesley Powell and the Folly of Settlement
- Arid Ambition: Conquering the American Desert
- The Designer's Compass - Part 4: Beyond the Bin: Carbon Capture and Nature's Toolkit for Future Materials
- The Designer's Compass - Part 3: From Forest to Fired Clay: Re-evaluating Renewable and Mineral Resources
- The Designer's Compass - Part 2: Threadbare Truths and High-Heat Emissions: Balancing Reuse in Textiles and Metals
- The Designer's Compass - Part 1: The Carbon Equation: Decoding LCA and Tackling Plastic's Waste Crisis
- The Designer's Compass: Navigating the Sustainable Material Wild West
- The Invisible Economy: How Ancient Societies Mastered Circularity
- The Arithmetic of Decarburization: A Hard Look at the Energy Revolution
- The Arithmetic of Sustainability
- The Gravity Engine: Ancient Water Systems That Shaped Civilization
- Bio-Architectural Blueprint: Lessons from Termite Mounds
- Sweetwater Seas Under Siege - Part 5: Water Wars and Genetic Fixes: Charting the Destiny of North America's Greatest Freshwater Reserve
- Sweetwater Seas Under Siege - Part 4: The Chicago Barrier: Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle Against the Carp at the Continental Divide
- Sweetwater Seas Under Siege - Part 3: Toxic Tide: How Microscopic Mussels and Farm Fertilizer Killed Lake Erie's Recovery
- Sweetwater Seas Under Siege - Part 2: The Great Salmon Swindle: How One Biologist Traded Native Fish for a Sport Fishing Fantasy
- Sweetwater Seas Under Siege - Part 1: The Seaway's Paradox: How a Dream of Commerce Unleashed Ecological Ruin
- Sweetwater Seas Under Siege: The Great Lakes' Ecological Catastrophe
- The New Thermal Divide
- The Iron Skillet Effect: The Deliberate Engineering of Permanence
- The Velocity Trap: The Physical Limits of an Accelerating World
- The Rebuilt Human: Engineering the Biological Machine
- Bio-Inspired Resilience: Nature's Blueprints for Adaptive Systems
- The Maintenance Logic: The Engineering of Civilization's Survival
- The Rust Tax: Why Maintenance is the Secret to Civilization
- Hothouse, Ice, and Impact: The Triple Threat to Global Technological Society
- Beyond Zero Emissions: The Global Resource Footprint and Geopolitical Weight of the EV Battery