http://www.ssrdinternational.com/blog Ashley Cornwell, CEO of Sustainable Systems Research and Development Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:05:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en William Irwin Thompson, a cultural historian whom I have been reading, once wrote: "At the end of the eighteenth century it was the rage to journey to ruins and graveyards and meditate on the prospects these stones held out to mortal man.  Now as the twentieth century declines it is the ... http://www.ssrdinternational.com/blog/2009/11/the-nature-of-los-angeles/ This week I have been thinking about hope and responsibility, two words that have gotten a lot of play in the last few months.  My train of thought actually started with a contrarian-sounding article in The Ecologist, in which John Vucetich, assistant professor of animal ecology at Michigan Technological University, ... http://www.ssrdinternational.com/blog/2009/03/hope-and-responsibility/   Hi, this is Ashley Cornwell, founder and CEO of Sustainable Systems Research and Development.    I will be using this space to write about the subject areas we are passionate about at SSRD:  during the coming months,  the spotlight will be on biofuels, as our own sustainable biodiesel facility in ... http://www.ssrdinternational.com/blog/2009/02/the-future-of-biofuels/