Tag: global-warming

January 11, 2013 0

Crowded crowd-funding for solar projects

By News Desk

Crowded crowd-funding for solar projects On Monday, Mosaic announced it would do the first-ever crowd-funding of solar projects , with a $25 minimum investment.  Yesterday I tried to buy in myself but their four new projects are fully funded .  They look like they might be having the same problem that Kiva used to have – more money than projects (it also seems like a different model than Kiva, the money goes directly to the projects rather than paying for a general fund)

January 9, 2013 0

If You Thought Eli Was a Strange Bunny

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.

January 9, 2013 0

The Color Purple

By News Desk

9/1/13 3:20 PM Anonymous said… Apologies for being a bit off-topic, but since the New Year is often a time for catching up with the goings-on among friends like ol’ Bish, perhaps it’s worth an update on a certain Peter Wood, with whom John Mashey and other readers are familiar, whose ignorant and defamatory anti-science essays appeared at the blog Innovations , formerly hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education.