Hugh Riminton's Going Green blog archive

(CNN) -- CNN's Hugh Riminton wrote a daily blog on environmental issues throughout the week of Going Green: Search for Solutions.

Friday, July 4: For a future bigger than Google, just solve RE<C
It is not mathematics. Simply geek-speak. The goal is to find renewable energy sources, wind, wave, geothermal, solar -- anything anyone can think of -- that can provide utility-scale power more cheaply than coal.
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Thursday, July 3: A smaller footprint can be a big challenge
People living in greenhouses shouldn't throw stones, right? We're all being asked to make sacrifices to save the planet and the easiest thing in the world is to lecture everyone else. I can't afford to. You see, I have been calculating my carbon footprint.
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Wednesday, July 2: Drinking from a fuel tank? Makes sense to me
It is a sign of the times that the craziest thing I have seen this week was not Daryl Hannah licking surplus fuel off the petrol cap. Drinking the stuff that fuels your car is triumphantly sane compared to the thinking that is now driving the race to exploit oil and gas reserves in the Arctic.
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Tuesday, July 1: Confessions of a nuclear turncoat
If I ruled the world, you'd soon have nuclear power driving your car. What keeps the air clean, emits negligible greenhouse gases, and generates enough wholesale reliable power to draw people out of poverty and into better lives? We all know the answer.
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Monday, June 30: The world is changing in more ways than one
The basic principle -- that humans are heating the planet -- is agreed at the political level .What technologies will carry us forward? Where are the needs most pressing? How do we ensure human genius triumphs over human folly? Read more