housekeeping


I’m moving. Or at least this blog is moving over to it’s own, real domain.

For the last few months, alexismadrigal.wordpress.com has been where www.greentechhistory.com takes you. Now greentechistory.com is its own site. If you go there, it should look pretty familiar because it’s exactly this blog reproduced over there. Being horrifically sick finally gave me time to install WordPress and get it tuned up.

So, henceforth, look to www.greentechhistory.com for all of your green tech history needs.

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You’ll soon be able to cruise around a map of green tech history in America and scroll through a timeline of the major events in the history of the industry.

Right now, I’m working on building an American Green Technology Historical Registry that will mark out the places that have been important for wind, solar, hydrokinetic, geothermal, and other renewable power sources. You will be surprised when you see the results. It’s not just northern California, it’s Ohio and Boise, Florida and Death Valley, Texas and Montana, York, PA,  and Rutland, Vermont.

The map would be farther along if it weren’t so hard to find a good mapping application. I guess I’ve settled on just using Google Maps, but if you’ve got a great tool, let me know.

I also want you to be able to look through the history in other formats. I’m thinking about building a Dipity timeline that would let you see pictures and stories, but I’m toying with simpler formats, too, like a simple list filled with pictures. Any preferences?

With a little help from Yahoo Pipes, I created an RSS feed that tracks my work at Wired Science, Wired.com, and here on this lowly and generally forgotten backwater of a blog. You can take a look at the feed at: http://pipes.yahoo.com/alexismadrigal/justme or just add it straight to your feed reader. Right now, you could find posts on methane, an exclusive interview with an inanimate object on Mars, and a write-up of yet another report on cities’ carbon footprints

Enjoy the feed, and Mom, if you need help setting up an RSS reader, give me a call.

Be watching out here, by the way, for more on the intersection of the Internet and environmentalism. That’s what I’m into these days. Well that, and crowdfighting crime.

madrigal

P. noun 1 writer, non-fiction, fiction 2 journalist, energy, science, technology at wired.com

— ORIGIN Rural Washington from Old Mexican salvador and New English elizabeth

regale

verb 1 entertain with conversation. 2 lavishly supply with food or drink.

— ORIGIN French régaler, from Old French gale ‘pleasure’