New Ideas in Rural-Size Energy

The Innovate column I write for Sierra magazine has one shortcoming: The word-count is too small for me to convey the wealth of useful resources I’ve found. Over the last few months, I blogged about the five technologies included in the March/April issue, which focused on what’s known as “Appropriate Technology.” […]

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This Issue’s “Innovate” Column: Energy for the Developing World

If there’s one thing I learned from reporting this month’s “Innovate” column, it’s this: The biggest beneficiaries of renewable energy will be the poor, rural farmers of the Third World. The billions of people who live off the grid in Africa, Asia and Latin America will use smaller and humbler technology than we will in the urban, modernized world. Yet its impact will be far greater. […]

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My New Column Starts This Month In Sierra Magazine

Look on page 69 of this month’s Sierra magazine and you’ll find “Innovate,” a column in which I explore new ideas in energy. I’m excited about this assignment because it lets me roam about at the beginning of our new era, the Renewables Age, and bend down to pick up the shiniest objects. […]

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