David Roedl

While I’m a little late getting in on blog action day, I want take the occasion to give attention to an issue of sustainability that I find really important: agriculture and food production. Joel Salatin is an innovative farmer and author whose practices were heavily featured in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. In this 2003 […]

On Friday I attended the annual conference of the Humanities and Technology Association, held this year at nearby Rose-Hulman Insititue of Technology in Terre Haute. The conference theme this year was “Sustainable Transformations: Technology and its Environments”, a theme that brought together a diverse collection of presentations. I enjoyed many of the talks and had […]

Recently, a friend forwarded me a news blurb from Treehugger.com about a so-called “green hummer”. Other than the fluorescent-lime paint job, its purportedly green feature is that it runs on biofuels enabling a 40 mpg fuel economy. I was little less than enthused, especially considering that my normal honda civic gets about the same, even […]