You know I love organizations like Kiva that help people make a living, especially with green projects, folk medicines, etc. Well, it's present season and you might want to consider some of these great three-season silk and bamboo scarves that are made with pesticide free materials [...] Green building activity has sustained impressive growth during 2009, amid a brutal construction market that has decimated other segments of the construction marketplace, according to the 2009 Green Building Market & Impact Report published on November 5, 2009 by GreenerBuildings.com.
According to report author Rob Watson, floor area registered and [...]
As many of my readers likely know by now, my organization ONE/Northwest has just rebranded itself as Groundwire. Obviously, our domain name changed, and with it our email addresses. One of the many “switchover” tasks we faced was the challenge of updating our email addresses on the many [...]
Some forget that the economy went into free fall during the late days of the Bush administration, wiping out the McCain-Palin ticket.
by Kyriaki Remoundou 1, Phoebe Koundouri 1, Areti Kontogianni 2, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes 3 and Michalis Skourtos 2
1. Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, 76 Patission Street, 104 34 Athens, Greece
2. University of Aegean, Faculty of the Environment, 81100 Mytilini, [...]
On Tuesday, November 3rd, while Panamanians celebrated Independence Day Holidays, heavy machinery unexpectedly entered and began cutting down tropical forest and mangroves near Galeta outside of Colon, Panama, report local sources. mongabay.com confirmed that the latest clearing has been carried out "almost in secret during national holidays so" [...] Andrew Kimball expresses the belief that changes in agricultural practices could reverse climate change.
World leaders who met last month at the United Nations climate summit took stock of the sobering reality that a global pact on climate change very likely will not be achieved in Copenhagen this December… However, [...]
Engineers from the University of Sunderland (UK), in collaboration with Shanghai’s Shen Li High Technology, ComeSys Europe and AVID vehicles, have launched ECO2Trans, a project to convert two buses to a fuel cell, battery and capacitor combination.
Sunderland’s Dirk Kok, Mark Armstrong, Maggie Ren and [...]I just finished presenting Tim's (and Rob's and Kurt's) paper in our Department Seminar Series:
Appalachian State UniversityAll seminars are in Raley 3010 at 2:00 P.M. unless otherwise indicated.
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November 6, John Whitehead, "Angler Heterogeneity and the Species-Specific Demand for Marine Recreational Fishing"
They were wowed [...]
The United States and China, advises The Gray (”Getting More Dismal by the Day”) Lady, rely heavily on coal for their energy needs. If both countries continue to depend on burning large amounts of coal for the foreseeable future, eventually there will be no foreseeable future.
The 3rd part [...]
ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, and Fincantieri, the Italian merchant and naval shipbuilder, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the construction, marketing and supply of high-voltage shore connection (HVSC) systems to provide electricity to vessels in port.
Diagram of HVSC system. Click [...]The US Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a cooperative agreement with Hydrogen Energy California LLC (HECA) to build and demonstrate a hydrogen-powered electric generating facility, complete with carbon capture and storage, in Kern County, Calif. (Earlier post.)
HECA, which is owned by Hydrogen Energy International, BP Alternative [...]
The title comes from a message from David Zetland (at aguanomics) who, besides asking questions with obvious answers, thinks posts about cow farts cheapen his blog. To that I say, nothing can cheapen our blog--er, or something like [...]
The Barcelona Climate Talks are wrapping up, and the world is disappointed. We have seen two vocal protests in the first hour inside the closing plenary and expressions of frustration and disappointment from one developing country after another. The Alliance of Small Island States says simply: ‘the level [...]
There is a shocking article in today's Miami Herald about a town in the Dominican Republic being plagued by terrible birth defects. The residents claim all the birth issues are being caused by coal ash that was dumped nearby by a U.S. company. The company denies it.
From the article:
Ocean Power Technologies (Australasia) Pty Ltd (OPTA), a subsidiary of Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., in partnership with Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd, has received a A$66.46 million (US$61 million) grant from the Federal Government of Australia to build a 19 MW wave power project off the coast of Victoria, Australia.
The [...]
As the GreenFleet Conference 2009 kicks off this morning in Chicago, fleet managers have access to comprehensive online tools and materials to help them cut costs and emissions. Available at [edf.org], the tools unveiled on October 19, 2009 by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) assist companies in reaching out [...]
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field
Things are winding down here in Barcelona. The latest negotiating text is out, and everybody is waiting for the final plenary session.
Negotiators seem to have coalesced on what needs to come out of Copenhagen, as opposed to what many would like to [...]
"Gross" is how CCAN's Lauren Glickman describes a kids coloring book produced by the West Virginia Coal Association and obtained and scanned by the Center for American Progress.
Friends of Coal (FOC) is a front group created by the West Virginia Coal Association. Its mission [...]
CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the Weekly newsletter is a brief description of CEI’s weekly podcast and a feature on a major CEI breakthrough made during the week. To sign up [...]
CGoing back to school means more possibilities for your child to bring home colds and other germs. When lice strike your household, it can be a battle to rid your family’s hair of them. Although there are products designed to combat this problem, many of them contain pesticides. [...] Scientists are making progress toward development of an “artificial leaf” that mimics photosynthesis, but that converts sunlight and water into a liquid fuel such as methanol for cars and trucks, according to a new report summarizing the discussions from the 1st Annual Chemical Sciences and Society Symposium (CS3). However, [...]
According to the latest analysis by New Energy Finance, the value of the world carbon market fell by 21% from Q2 to Q3. This is largely due to a drop in activity in the European emissions market compared to Q2. Traded volumes in the North American and international offset [...]
You most probably have heard of them once or twice before. They appear here and there, suddenly out of nowhere. They are loud, they are convincing and they are very persistent in their messaging - Climate skeptics!
A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, found that only [...]
Keith Kloor
All hope for Copenhagen seems lost. According to The Times:
“A world treaty on climate change will be delayed by up to a year and is likely to be watered down because countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions are refusing to commit to legally binding reductions.”So if [...]
Lower-carbon future? Try natural gas.
The public debate on climate change can seem beguilingly simple: alternative fuels good; fossil fuels bad. If we burn less of the latter and use more of the former, the argument goes, we will be well [...]
An excerpt:
A world treaty on climate change will be delayed by up to a year and is likely to be watered down because countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions are refusing to commit to legally binding [...]
When I was 9 years old the neighbor wanted to extend the side of his house but the trees there were in the way. These were beautiful, gigantic Populus and I loved them so much. When the wind blew through the leaves it made the most [...]
People say that the election of Barack Obama and his pursuit of radical measures -- from state-run health care to unilateral nuclear disarmament -- marks the end of American conservatism. One Jeremiah, Sam Tanenhaus, has produced a predictable book, The Death of Conservatism. I [...]
Renault, which already produces Mégane Hatchback, Mégane Estate, Modus and Grand Modus exclusively in Spain, has chosen to manufacture the future electric vehicle (EV) based on Twizy ZE Concept (earlier post) at Valladolid, 150 km north west of Madrid. Production will start in 2011.
The [...]Yesterday, we saw nuclear reactor builders AREVA citing a study that said ânuclear power has the smallest land-use footprint of all forms of energy generationâ.
The thing is, thereâs actually quite a bit of disagreement on the matter. The study âEnergy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts [...]
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
ANALYSIS-German nuclear policy skirts a taboo
âFRANKFURT, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Germany's nuclear power policy of keeping old reactors open longer to bridge the gap to greener energy may also leave the door open to eventually break [...]
It is no secret that the decreasing sea ice in the Arctic has opened the waters to new issues, including ownership battles between countries and fishing in areas never before fished. Due to the dwindling ice, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council began debating what actions [...]
In 2007, Aussie musician Missy Higgins and her band toured the US in a Prius, participated in Live Earth and helped PETA campaign against animal abuse. That same year, KT Tunstall also jumped on the green bandwagon, touring in a biodiesel-fuelled bus [...]
A survey of the sustainability performance of 17 of the world’s leading automakers has found a mixed pattern when it [...]
Although studies widely [...]
“Rising sea levels, birds and forests on the other side of the world – all our actions are connected.” (Cathy Fitzgerald)
Go vote for Cathy at the 1 Minute to Save the World competition if you like this clip, which I found poetic and touching.
Tagged: video [...] Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has commissioned of a compact gasification pilot plant in Illinois; the pilot plant is the first step toward global commercialization of the technology. (Earlier post.)
Key design features of the compact gasification system. Click to enlarge.The commissioning was held at the [...]
