COP15 is over and Christmas is over which means I can spend some time digesting news that I ignored in December. Here are some of the lighter bits:
While the United States begins mobilizing the Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (“Climate REDI”), the uptake of renewable energies in developing countries is inching forward. Kenya-based Nomadic Communities Trust (NCT) has partnered with California’s Art Center College and Princeton University to create a solar-powered refrigerator to preserve medicines traveling (via camel-back) through harsh African climates. The “mobile camel clinic,” made of bamboo, is an extremely cost effective way of transporting vaccines throughout remote regions.
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Billionaire, inventor, eccentric and Renaissance Man Nathan Myhrvold speaks with Fareed Zakaria on ways to address climate change. The former Microsoft executive shares his enthusiasm for Patagonian wildlife, geo-engineering, and the best way for the U.S. to help developing countries adapt to climate change (hint: emission cuts won’t work).
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Writing for the Economist’s “World in 2010” issue, Oliver Morton insists that the way to make any change in the world’s emissions is to invest in new capabilities:
“The best thing a bright young person can do to help rid civilization of fossil fuels is get an education in engineering.”
Read the whole article here.
