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Do India’s Renewable Energy Targets Make Sense ? / Varun Sivaram, Energy, security, and climate, 11/03/2015 http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2015/03/11/do-indias-renewable-energy-targets-make-sense/By way of introduction, I’m brand new to CFR and excited to contribute to this blog. I joined last week as a fellow in CFR’s Center for Geoeconomic Studies, and I plan to write about renewable energy technology, climate policy, and national security—with an eye toward emerging markets. Before CFR, I did stints at McKinsey’s cleantech practice and in municipal government, working on energy policy for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. I also studied physics at Stanford and Oxford—my group in Oxford researched third generation solar panels that we hope will one day make colorful coatings for skyscraper windows...Did Earth’s ‘Anthropocene’ Age of Man Begin With the Globalization of Disease in 1610? / Andrew C. Revkin, Dot Earth, New York Times, 11/03/2015 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/did-earths-anthropocene-age-of-man-begin-with-the-globalization-of-disease-in-1610/As regular readers know, scientists are in a bit of a tussle over what date marks the dawn of Earth’s “age of us” — a.k.a. the Anthropocene — even as other scientists and scholars question whether it’s hubris to think a geological epoch, as strictly defined, can result from human activity...