Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Aquafina: Tap Water or el Néctar del Amor?
PepsiCo’s contribution to the world of bottled water is a product called Aquafina. Based on what their marketing department is telling us, Aquafina is world changing stuff. Watch the following commercials, then we’ll discuss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGIwUBTuOyk
5 Comments » - Posted in Water by Doug Snodgrass
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Heathrow Expansion - Right to Protest May be Removed
In light of all the attention climate change has received over the last couple of years, and given the UK’s efforts to, at least, be perceived as being a leading player in mitigation, one could be forgiven for thinking that progress might be being made. The country that reinvented itself 70 years ago, demonstrating how […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Transport by Craig Mackintosh
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Top Ten Reasons to Take the Train
Following Kati’s excellent post, Trains vs. Planes in the Emission Reduction Race, here is a list of reasons to motivate YOU to take the train on your next trip. No matter how fast they are, planes (and airports) are a major pain and there is no way around that.
Flexibility! There is no beating trains for […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Transport by Alina Beloussova
Monday, July 30th, 2007
How ‘Green’ is Renewable Energy?
Editor’s Note: With this post we welcome Andy Chrysostomou onto the Celsias writing team. Andy writes out of the United Kingdom, helping to further round out the international scope of our content. Welcome Andy!
We are being led to believe that renewable energy sources such as wind farms, solar panels, hydro-electric power plants and biofuels are […]
12 Comments » - Posted in Nuclear Fission by Andy Chrysostomou
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Ride to Sustain - Day Off in Salt Lake City
Upon hitting Salt Lake City on Friday, we broke the 1,000 mile mark for the trip and decided that after eight straight days of trying to make up time after Jon’s incident with a Nappa Autoparts truck it was time to take a break. After two interviews on Friday - KUTV-CBS2 and KSTU-FOX13 - we […]
No Comments » - Posted in Ride to Sustain by Colin Davis
Monday, July 30th, 2007
The Frame, the Farm, the Harm
by Joe Brewer, Rockridge Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Members of Congress are drawing battle lines in the upcoming debate about the farm bill. Ongoing activities focus on subsidies and commodity crops. This frames the discussion in economic terms that evoke “free trade” and the natural market frame. Framing food in economic terms like commodities and subsidies […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Agriculture & Food, Politics by Joe Brewer
Friday, July 27th, 2007
The Homestead - the Back Story
Editor’s Note: With this post we welcome Jayne Bielecki to the writing team. Jayne writes out of Wisconsin, and will be writing about her and her partner’s experiences as they slowly turn a 1940s era homestead into an environmentally friendly and energy-efficient home. Be sure to offer your encouragement and advice, in what could become […]
12 Comments » - Posted in Green Building by Jayne Bielecki
Friday, July 27th, 2007
Monsanto’s BT Cotton: Indian Farmers Commit Suicide
In a classic example of putting profits before people, Indian farmers are lured by colourful and convincing marketing programs to forget their low-carbon, natural and closed traditional systems of agriculture, and to instead buy into ‘modern’ systems that make the farmer dependent on outside inputs at every step. And, what do they lure them with?: […]
No Comments » - Posted in Agriculture & Food, Industry by Craig Mackintosh
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Outdoor Heaters - Warming the World, Literally!
Editor’s Note: With this post we welcome yet another new writer on board. Alina currently writes out of the Netherlands, and has her own fab blog (see link from her name above). We’re looking forward to subsequent posts from Alina!
UK’s Energy Saving Trust is launching a campaign urging DIY stores and garden chains to stop […]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Alina Beloussova
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Water Tables Falling & Rivers Running Dry
by Lester R. Brown, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
As the world’s demand for water has tripled over the last half-century and as the demand for hydroelectric power has grown even faster, dams and diversions of river water have drained many rivers dry. As water tables fall, the springs that feed rivers go dry, reducing river flows.
Scores of […]
No Comments » - Posted in Water by Lester R. Brown
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Low-Carbon Diet - Carob Cake
When serving this cake, do tell people it’s a carob cake, not a chocolate cake. They may expect it to be chocolate and be startled as they bite into it!
Carob and chocolate are two different tastes, each nice in their own way. Carob, however, is naturally a little sweet, whereas cocoa requires a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Low-Carbon Recipes by Craig Mackintosh
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Ride to Sustain - Calling All Interviews!
While the ride has been going great, I am having a tough time finding the time and cell phone service (Nevada seems to be the land that time forgot when it comes to phone coverage) to arrange interviews in the cities I am approaching. So I am putting out a request to the Celsias […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Ride to Sustain by Colin Davis
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Choosing Politics Over the Environment
The following graph compares the number of Endangered Species Act listings per year for each of the past six presidential administrations. (Source: Center for Biological Diversity).
The American tradition known as the Friday news dump brought us this item last week.
2 Comments » - Posted in Environment & Wildlife, Politics by Doug Snodgrass
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Trains vs. Planes in the Emissions Reduction Race
Not even the new individual-choice movie screens on a recent international flight could put the gloss back on flying for me. Ever since I learnt that burning kerosene at high altitude has disproportionate effects on global warming, the view out the plane window hasn’t been quite so rose-tinted.
The main emissions from aircraft are the greenhouse […]
