by Chris Woodside | Jun 1, 2011 | Online Articles
“The fan—or even an open window on a breezy day—lowers the apparent temperature very effectively when the air is blowing at or over your body,” says Stan Cox, author of “Losing Our Cool.” Patch.com, May 20, 2011 An annual report on the Connecticut...
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...