Also, here is an interesting NYT article from last year that offers a perspective on the problems of the Virgin Earth Challenge from outside the project:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/business/energy-environment/22green.html?_r=2 Josh On Apr 14, 7:41 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Oliver - > Again - thanks for an interesting and helpful lead on "Forum for the Future". > I hope you will keep supplying such l.eads. > > 1. What you have given below gets more interesting for CDR fans when you read > the appreciably longer story at the address you have given below: > > [http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/Virgin_25milli...] > > 2. There are also leads to Sir Branson's Carbon War Room (CWR) website, which > seems to have slowed down on CDR (Their very first "battle" was on Biochar)] > CWR is the primary organizer for an upcoming May "Wealth" conference. There > is mention of Biochar in a Sustainable Agriculture track (one of 7). The > conference price will not attract many farmers. Again, I hope you can report > on this one. > > Ron > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Oliver Morton" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected], "kcaldeira-gmail" <[email protected]>, > "geoengineering" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:48:31 PM > Subject: Re: [geo] Re: calling all CDRers > > From Green Futures magazine, this week, by Alan Knight, who is the director > of the Earth Challenge > > http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/Virgin_25milli... > > Disappointing yes, but honest. ... > > With 2,600 submissions, why is no one top dog? > > <snip a lot> > > [more > athttp://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/Virgin_25milli...] > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Rau, Greg < [email protected] > wrote: > > Certainly all forms of CDR need to be solicited, but as in most things > congressional (and executive for that matter), those > > <snip more than 90% of the original>- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
