August 19, 2010 – 9:57 am
Of all the summer news splashes the weather has managed to dominate the major headlines lately: Floods on the East Coast and down south in the United States, not to mention Deadly Deluges inundating parts of Pakistan, for instance. All of this while, Droughts in an excessively hot Russia have killed acre upon acre of [...]
August 17, 2010 – 9:30 am
One environmentally destructive practice, onto which a light has been shed due to the BP oil spill in the gulf is Oil Sands Development in Alberta, Canada. Oil Sands Extraction, according to a 2008 report, leaks approximately three million gallons of contaminated water into surrounding rivers and groundwater each day. Well, in addition to this, [...]
On Friday Taiwan’s government urged their public to stop burning incense sticks and ritual money to honor the dead and instead to opt for online worshipping as it fares better with Mother Earth. The announcement by the cabinet-level Environmental Protection Administration came ahead of Monday’s Tomb Sweeping Festival, when ethnic Chinese traditionally visit the grave [...]
Since taking the job as UC San Diego’s first director of strategic energy initiatives in September 2008, Byron Washom has worked to turn the 1,200-acre campus into a model of sustainability, a “living laboratory” he calls it. This includes renewable energy, greenhouse-gas reduction, energy management, energy storage systems and greening the campus transportation fleet. The [...]
December 21, 2009 – 10:15 am
The President of Israel, Shimon Peres arrived in Copenhagen and delivered a speech on Thursday at the high-level portion of the UN sponsored climate conference. He declared that Israel is setting forth a goal to lower their green-house gas emissions by 20% by the year 2020. That is not to reduce the country’s levels 20% [...]
December 14, 2009 – 6:11 pm
UPDATE The EU environment spokesman Andreas Carlgren says informal talks at Copenhagen resolved the impasse. The European Union says poor countries have stopped their boycott of climate change negotiations at Copenhagen and have found a solution to their dispute with rich nations. ============================================================================================= China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Monday, [...]
November 27, 2009 – 5:49 pm
Next month U.S. President Barack Obama will attend a global climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. His objective is to spell out the U.S. goal for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. The president says that he will take part in the conference on Dec. 9, before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama will [...]
November 9, 2009 – 1:28 pm
“You can have a really fuel-efficient, dirty vehicle and a really clean, not-so-fuel-efficient vehicle,” says Karl Simon, a director of compliance and innovation for the EPA‘s Office of Transportation and Air Quality. “It really is pretty wide open from a technical perspective.” So-called fuel economy indeed is linked to emissions; however it is not the [...]
October 27, 2009 – 12:39 pm
The race is on to find a way to mass produce affordable fuel from pond algae. Sound strange? Here’s the scoop: Factors such as fluctuating oil prices and the hopes of easing climate change have caused the hunt for creative knew energy sources. The icky pond scum known as algae grows remarkably fast and is [...]
With America still in a deep recession and more than 3.6 million jobs lost during the past 8 months, the last thing most people want to know about is a new government energy bill that will result in people paying even more for fuel for their cars and for electricity and other fuels to cool [...]
