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Frank Sesno wrote a new blog post: Communities Skip Washington for Green Action Locally 6 months ago · View
With political gridlock preventing politicians in Washington, D.C. from reaching agreements on, well, anything, it’s easy to imagine the entire country is suffering from a similar political lockdown. However, municipalities across the country are coming together and moving ahead in America’s clean energy discussion. One way they’re doing it: building a new generation of green [...]
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Frank Sesno wrote a new blog post: Using Sustainable Water to Plan for the Next Billion 6 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Last week, Danica May Camacho of the Philippines became the world’s symbolic seven billionth person . The occasion drew mixed feelings in the policy world — what does a booming global population mean for climate risks? To cite one issue, leaders are worried about the declining supply of water in regions vital to economic growth. This isn’t [...]
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Frank Sesno wrote a new blog post: #ThinkFWD on Campus Sustainability 7 months ago · View
To think forward is to take a good look at the present and then apply all of your ingenuity towards cultivating a better future. With the population rushing towards 7 billion and no magical cure to global warming on the horizon, we need ideas. And who better to ask than college students? They understand the urgency and have [...] -
Frank Sesno wrote a new blog post: Bugging Out: Could Climate Change Make the Insect Instinct Go Haywire? 8 months, 1 week ago · View
Gardening in a suburban area is more difficult than most people imagine. There are problems with soil quality and plot space, water and weather. But nothing is more menacing than the docile deer. Decades of development left the deer virtually unthreatened by natural predators, and the arrival of humans and their gardens provided a boom [...] -
Frank Sesno wrote a new blog post: Bill Nye’s #EnergyToDo List 11 months ago · View
Bill Nye. Yes, the Science Guy. He’s demystified math and science for a generation of kids on TV, but what if we promoted him to Secretary of Energy? He’d find hundreds, if not thousands of projects in the works, under review, awaiting decision. Which would make it to the top of his to-do list? The current [...] -
Frank Sesno commented on the blog post Episode 1: Middlebury’s March To The Solar Decathlon 11 months, 2 weeks ago · View
This is an inspiring story…but what makes this house better, more interesting, more ‘solar’ than the others that will be in Washington this fall? And…tell us where you got your design inspirations? From a book? From yourself? From YouTube???
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Frank Sesno wrote a new blog post: Seeking Sustainable Oil? Turn to Trash! 1 year, 1 month ago · View
It’s no surprise that oil and coal companies are having a banner year. Earthquakes in Japan and revolutions in Africa have oil riding a profitable wave of instability. The Wall Street Journal noted that rising gas prices are a boon to oil companies even as costs pinch consumers. Fortunately there are plenty of energy innovators waiting in the [...]
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