A new International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) report provides a 5-year plan for using Djibouti’s abundant renewable energy sources to solve the nation’s serious concerns regarding rising energy demand, limited energy security, and rampant unemployment. Astonishingly, IRENA claims that by 2020, 100% of Djibouti’s energy demand can be met through renewables. The economic renaissance that […]
Not long after I saw Andrei Tarkovsky’s mesmerizing Stalker last year, I read Aurélia, Gérard de Nerval’s “memoir of his madness” (madness meant literally). At the time, I didn’t make any connection between the two. It took a chance revisiting of Nerval’s story, after recently writing about Tarkovsky’s film, to realize their uncanny similarities. Nerval […]
Ethiopia is not a country known for lush landscapes and incredible biodiversity. But that may be because we haven’t been paying enough attention. Meg Lowman, the Chief of Science and Sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences, and affectionally known as “Canopy Meg,” recently wrote an article for Huffington Post that exposed a bright-green patch […]