Tonight and tomorrow will be one of those rare occurrances in the night sky that many of us grew up believing were “shooting stars” coming to us to make wishes for love and kisses.

After just writing a piece about cannolis in love and marriage — yes — we are such a cannoli family that we had them shipped from the North End of Boston to Portland, Maine for 250 guests — this story from the Associated Press really amused me. 

Strewn across the North Pacific, from Japan to the U.S West Coast, there is a huge swath of plastic debris. The debris collects in a convergence zone hundreds of miles across in the clockwise ocean currents of the North Pacific Gyre.

In Yale 360,  Roger A. Pielke, Jr. wrote a piece called:  “The Folly of ‘Magical Solutions’ For Targeting Carbon Emissions.”  We think it will interest you.  

Expanding energy law in Michigan / Efficiency saving $700 billion / Hurdles for LNG / Top Green Power Purchasers / Wireless electricity? / A wind energy factory show-down

Some of us talk about reducing our carbon footprint and others actually do it. Here is a house that’s tiny as a closet, but livable.

When the stories of Cape Wind first surfaced,  sides were immediately taken.  Walter Cronkite, a long-time resident of the Cape, was firmly standing with the opposition. 

Remember when the word “plastics” conjured up a bright future for a young Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate? Well that was 1967 and things have certainly changed.

As any woman who has ever stood in a dressing room trying on swimsuits will tell you, fluorescent lights are not your friend. That cool harsh fluorescent light would make even Gisele Bündchen look—–well maybe Gisele is not a good choice here. But, you get the idea.

Amid technical setbacks and a down economy, confidence is still high among investors and developers that algal-derived biofuels will be able to compete with fossil fuels. Read more