Web Worth Watching: Sostenibilidad

Gonna return to environmental themes this week with a couple of videos about how the Spanish are tackling sustainability. The first looks at the Canary Island of El Hierro, which is supposedly on track to be fully sustainable by the end of 2009.

Canary's Eco Island



Next is a video from GreenEnergyTV (so note the potential bias) looking at Barcelona's efforts to achieve sustainability.

Barcelona: Sustainable Energy City



The final video is a talk by Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Recorded in early 2005, he discusses why we must ween ourselves off foreign oil. I don't agree with everything he says (his reference to biofuels ignores the intensive water needs of that 'solution') and the age of the talk shows in his statistics on fuel costs. But what is interesting is what he has to say about the mechanics of conservation for automobiles.

Amory Lovins: We Must Win the Oil Endgame

New on KNME.org (October 13): Should Uranium Mining Return to Grants (Part 2)

New this week on KNME.org, part two of Lillian Kelly's exploration into the issues surrounding the potential return of uranium mining to Grants, NM. Part 1 premiered last week and can be seen below Part 2.


Should Uranium Mining Return to Grants (Part 2)



Should Uranium Mining Return to Grants (Part 1) - debuted last week

New on KNME.org (October 6): Should Uranium Mining Return to Grants (Part 1)

New this week on KNME.org, in the first of a two part series, indie filmmaker Lillian Kelly explores the issues surrounding the potential return of uranium mining to Grants, NM.

Part 2 will debut right here next Monday (10/13).

Should Uranium Mining Return to Grants? (Part 1)

New on KNME.org (September 15): Salt Cedar Invasion

New this week on KNME.org, indie filmmaker Deborah Wakshull explores how the salt cedar is an especially potent invasive species here in the central Rio Grande valley.


Salt Cedar Invasion