Per Capita Davis: The battery bonanza
By John Mott-Smith From page A4 | July 16, 2015 Cross posted from the Davis Enterprise | Photo Credit: Davis Enterprise This is the second of three (I think) columns on the topic of energy storage; specifically, electrical energy storage. Why so much time spent…
A shout-out to Cool Davis
Cross posted from the Davis Enterprise, May 7, 2015. On Earth Day last month, Cool Davis announced awards to several local residents in two categories: Climate Solutions and Eco-Heroes. I couldn’t really tell what the distinction was between the two categories; everything seemed important. Cool…
Per Capita Davis: Solar energy is sizzling in Yolo County
By John Mott-Smith Cross posted from the Davis Enterprise, 2-19-2015 Rooftop solar photovoltaic systems sprouted up on an increasing number of homes throughout Yolo County in 2014. Of course, many, many systems were installed prior to 2004, and it would be interesting to go backwards…
Per Capita Davis: When push comes to shove
This column by John Mott-Smith is republished from the Davis Enterprise. Perhaps this is not true for everyone, but it has been an article of faith (and hope) for me that the consequence of delaying action now to curb emissions would be the necessity for…
Per Capita Davis: News from the Funny Papers
This column by John Mott-Smith is republished from the Davis Enterprise The last column was somewhat sobering, so I thought I’d start this one out with news from the funny papers. A recent cartoon pictured a factory, labeled “U.N. Climate Summit,” with smokestacks spewing what…
Per Capita Davis: Stamp Out Global Warming
This column by John Mott-Smith is republished from the Davis Enterprise. The US Postal Service is making a commitment to sustainability with “Go Green” stamps and practices. I confess: I still go to the library to look things up, have a land line in the…
Per capita Davis: Alarms are meant to alarm
This column by John Mott-Smith is republished from the Davis Enterprise. Two apparently unrelated news articles caught my attention recently. In one, a South Korean ferry sinks with hundreds losing their lives in part because the captain and many of the crew allegedly told passengers…
Per capita Davis: Hard to believe
John Mott-Smith is a member of Cool Davis and a columnist at the Davis Enterprise. The news is full of stories about our energy future; some grim, others hopeful. Most include numbers to back up the point being made. It can sometimes be hard to…
Per Capita Davis: More good news on climate change work
John Mott-Smith is a member of Cool Davis. This regular column is cross-posted from Davis Enterprise. It was so much fun writing the last column about good news on the climate change front that I thought I’d try it again. The good news starts on…
Now for some good news on climate change
This column by John Mott-Smith, a member of Cool Davis, is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. The last column was about bad news from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They issued three reports recently. Last September, the first report made the point that scientists…
Per Capita Davis: The Pace of Change
(This column is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise) The term “early adopter” doesn’t apply to me, not by a long shot. I am slow to pick up on new technology, and more than a little choosy when I do adopt a change, gadget or gizmo….
Per Capita Davis: Mother Nature and the Red Queen
This article is crossposted from the Davis Enterprise. I’m offering a couple of thoughts for the new year. One involves Mother Nature, and the other Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen. First, Mother Nature. The world’s policymakers sat down in Warsaw in 2013 to talk about climate…
Per Capita Davis: Freedom is not free
This column is cross posted from Davis Enterprise. An oil company executive was asked why, if he agreed that burning fossil fuels is the major culprit in climate change, he opposed any legislation or regulation to limit that burning. His response, to summarize, was that…
Per capita Davis: Take a look in the mirror
This column by JohnMott-Smith, a member of Cool Davis, is reprinted with thanks to the Davis Enterprise. When we look in the mirror, we see ourselves. Or, more precisely, we see ourselves backwards: my left arm looks like the right arm of the impostor in…
Per capita Davis: Breaking the Record
This adapted column by John Mott-Smith, a member of Cool Davis, is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. We humans love data. We keep track of all kinds of stuff. How much rain did we get, is it more or less than “normal?” When was the…
Per capita Davis: Impractical and uneconomical?
This column by John Mott-Smith, a member of Cool Davis, is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. Driving down Interstate 5, motorists are accompanied by a view of the California Aqueduct, part of the several hundred-mile network of canals that make up the Central Valley Project…
Per Capita Davis: The road not traveled
This column by John Mott-Smith, a member of Cool Davis, is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. The last column was (in part) about how important it is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles if we are to reach our emission reduction target of 80…
Per Capita Davis: The toughest nut to crack
This column by John Mott-Smith, a member of Cool Davis, is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. The toughest nut to crack: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is, in some ways, painless and invisible to most of us. Others are doing it for us. If Congress raises…
Feeling the heat
This column by Cool Davis member, John Mott-Smith is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. I find it difficult at times to get my mind around the scope or scale of global warming. We speak about this issue as affecting the “planet” or the “atmosphere” or…
Per Capita Davis: UC Davis is putting us on the map
This column by John Mott-Smith, a member of Cool Davis, is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. For years, whenever I traveled outside of the Sacramento region, whether to Europe, Asia, New York or Los Angeles, when the question was asked “Where are you from?” my…
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