by Chris Woodside | Apr 3, 2011 | Magazine Articles
Niamh Murtagh studies why people waste energy at home, even when they know they shouldn’t. Since this story appeared in Nature Climate Change’s inaugural issue of March 2011, Murtagh has changed her affiliation to University College London and continues to...
by Chris Woodside | Mar 28, 2011 | Magazine Articles
William Stanley Jevons first theorized that efficiency could lead to using even more energy. The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media A bit of a buzz is making its way through media circles in response to some recent thought-provoking articles on the old...
by Chris Woodside | Mar 14, 2011 | Newspaper Articles
On December 8, 2010, two months ahead of his appointment as Connecticut environmental commissioner, Dan Esty spoke about changing the economy to include renewables. The Connecticut Mirror, March 7, 2011 It’s an alluring proposition: Connecticut solves its major...
by Chris Woodside | Jan 5, 2011 | Magazine Articles
Appalachia Journal I have learned not to get lost on foot in the woods, but I have never mastered route finding in a car. Road maps never print enough detail; when reality presents unexpected streets and signs, I can’t reconcile them with my broad-brush concept of the...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 6, 2010 | Newspaper Articles
A New England Central Railroad freight train delivers goods to Freeport-McMoran Copper (formerly Phelps-Dodge) in Norwich, Connecticut. Photo by Tom Mik. The Connecticut Mirror The logic seems sound: If more of Connecticut’s goods were moved on freight trains...
by Chris Woodside | Nov 2, 2010 | Newspaper Articles
Cottage No. 31 goes down, Long Beach West, Stratford, Connecticut, Oct. 22, 2010 The Connecticut Mirror It’s not often that civilization is demolished to make way for wild birds, especially within sight of Connecticut’s largest city. That’s what’s happening on a long...