Author Archives: David Bergman

Two cycling topics, stop signs and bike share racks, have been the source of much bloggery this week. Continue reading →

On the return flight from an eco conference in Mexico City, I found some, uh, interesting ways to reincorporate nature in our lives. Continue reading →

What does it mean that the Dow Jones is surpassing 15,000 at the same time that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is set to break 400 parts per million? Continue reading →

Are the things we build – the “modifications” to “physical geography” as one of the first ecologists put it in 1864 – unnatural? Does the fact that they are built by people automatically mean they are not a part of nature? Continue reading →

What are the odds of two Wrongest Product Award nominations dealing with bananas? It’s not like bananas are iconic fruit as, say, apples are. Apples have played a part in the Bible, in William Tell, in American patriotism, in New … Continue reading →

I propose a response to President Obama’s energy policy of “all of the above.” I suggest “none of the below.” Continue reading →

The decisions we make today are determining the environment (and hence the future) for upcoming generations, and those generations have no voice in those decisions. Continue reading →

I looked at two back to back trade shows through the lens of ecodesign and found both encouraging and discouraging points. Continue reading →

I go on at times about the significance of the precautionary principle, the idea that “if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus … Continue reading →

I don’t believe in the zero-sum scenario — at least not in the case of environmentalism, where I like to point out the many win-win and win-win-win scenarios. Continue reading →