Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Lighting Up the New Year in Green
Every New Year’s Eve in New York, as one year turns into another, thousands of people gather to watch an elaborately illuminated ‘Time Ball’ descend a 77 foot (23 meter) pole. It is also viewed by many more watching from their TV sets around the U.S. and even internationally. This year, tonight in fact, appropriately […]
1 Comment » - Posted in CleanTech - Other, Green Philosophy by Craig Mackintosh
Monday, December 31st, 2007
2008: A Good Year for the Environment
Editor’s Note: On the last day of the year, we introduce a new writer — Alex Krogh-Grabbe. Alex writes out of Connecticut, where he’s been active in helping organise Focus the Nation and writing on environmental issues for his campus paper. We look forward to more posts from Alex in 2008!
As a passionate but realistic […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Green Philosophy by Alex Krogh-Grabbe
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Nano Technology May Grant LEDs a Brighter Future
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have long been recognised as being, potentially, the Holy Grail of lighting options. LEDs use a fraction of the power of standard incandescent lights, and even use a lot less energy than the currently-promoted Compact Fluorescent bulbs (CFLs). Other benefits of LEDs include an instantaneous warm up time, very long life […]
No Comments » - Posted in Energy by Craig Mackintosh
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Fuel Savings - Making the Best of What You Have Today
A while back, you may recall, we posted an excellent and extremely simple idea on saving fuel. It is an idea that doesn’t cost you a cent and is something you can do right now - as opposed to ‘one day’ when environmentally friendlier vehicles become more common and affordable. In the clip below, one […]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Craig Mackintosh
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
The Basket Our Eggs Are In
By Peter Montague of Rachel’s Democracy & Health News
“Isn’t it great what Big Coal is doing for us!”
President Bush signed into law the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 on December 19. The Sierra Club celebrated the new law as a “historic victory.” The Union of Concerned Scientists called it “landmark” legislation. Reports in […]
No Comments » - Posted in Coal & Oil, Politics, Industry, Energy by Peter Montague
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
2007: A Bad Year for the Environment
Politicians are good at talking about climate change, and their efforts to control the rise in global temperatures. Here in the UK we have a government that talks big on reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, but delivers little in reality. The same is probably true of many political leaders around the world. ‘Plans’, ‘reviews’ […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Global Warming Science, Consumerism, Politics by Andy Chrysostomou
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
JetPack Rating System™: EntryPoint Solar Workshop
I once again present the JetPack Rating System™, my effort to help humanity cope with its collective disappointment over the broken promise of personal jetpacks, the Sean Connery-era James Bond standard of cool.
To recap, the JetPack Rating System™ is used to not only begin the healing process, but also for rating automobiles, buildings, technology, etc. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Comedy Break, CleanTech - Solar by Doug Snodgrass
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
An Evolution in Online Green Selling
Ever browsed Amazon and felt hopeless at the level and speed of wanton consumerism? What if there was a green Amazon…? Well there is, and as alternatives go Evo.com is certainly one of the more considered attempts at bringing green shopping to the internet. It works on a kind of attribute system represented by green […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Consumerism by Paul Ennis
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Energy Crisis Won’t “Wait for the Market”
The Invisible Hand of the Market
Courtesy: Throbgoblins
How should we respond to the argument that we need to “wait for the market” to solve our energy and climate problems?
Proponents of the “do nothing” approach to real-world problems often claim that there is no solution to the harmful impacts of our fossil fuel economy until “the market” […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Politics, Industry by Joe Brewer
Friday, December 28th, 2007
A place called The Locavore
The Locavore founder, Chris
March, and waiter, Duncan Forbes
If not local, eat family-farmed; if not family-farmed, eat organic; if not organic, eat fair trade. – The Locavore menu
This is the motto of a sharp little cafe in the South Australian Adelaide Hills. The Locavore is the first “100-mile diet” eatery in the state. If the cook […]
No Comments » - Posted in Agriculture & Food, Consumerism, Industry, Health, Global Warming Action by Kristy Arbon
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Friday Linkfest - Edition 24
Extreme and oddball weather events are
becoming the norm worldwide
Bienvenue! Welcome to the 24th edition of the Celsias Friday Linkfest - where we bring you all the noteworthy green news from the last week. We have a lot to cover, so let’s jump right in.
Good News:
A new study shows that Xmas shoppers are showing signs of […]
No Comments » - Posted in Friday Linkfest by Rachael Neile-Mcgrew
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
People, Industry, Wildlife Fight Over Shrinking Ugandan Forest
Industry & nature clash - again
Uganda’s national parks and forests are facing increased pressure from a growing population as well as the President’s plan to sell off the Mabira Central Forest Preserve to a sugar company in an effort to industrialize the Ugandan economy.
Uganda’s forests have been losing ground since the early 1990’s — a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Environment & Wildlife, Industry, Deforestation by Rachael Neile-Mcgrew
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
How Green is a “Green Home”?
Domespace - France
Green Homes; New Ideas for Sustainable Living (Harper Collins) by Sergi Costa Duran profiles 35 “green” building projects from around the world. The book starts with two quotes, one by Homer and one by Ayn Rand, so I was predisposed to only half like it. The author sees “the modern green home […]
No Comments » - Posted in Green Building by Leslie Berliant
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Study Claims Human Contribution to Warming Negligible
If you are even a casual observer of current news regarding our climate system, you may have noticed a recently published research paper, which has gotten the skeptical community very excited. This new paper, according to a press release, supposedly demonstrates that the human contribution to current observed warming trends is not significant:
Climate scientists at […]
