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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010). with honors, in Marine/Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link]. Donovan (3 March 2010).

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. I want it to be all of California.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

Steven Cherry: There's a process in legal cases, especially lawsuits, that involves an incredibly tedious process of finding and extracting information from sometimes enormous masses of data that by law, the other side has to provide. So yes, these are very much real-world use cases. And that's also an area that's near and dear to my heart.