Firework displays are gawd-awful for the environment, causing (among other offenses) massive increase in the levels of perchlorate found in bodies of water. Articles here and here suggest that research is being done to make greener fireworks, but the articles are scare in details. Color me skeptical. Chevron has been ... keep reading
Written by Doug Snodgrass yesterday, about Air Quality, Environment & Wildlife, Politics & Government
Journalist and science writer Eric Roston’s book The Carbon Age, highly praised when it was first published last year, is now available in paperback. It’s about carbon in the universe and the essential part it plays in life on Earth. It’s also about climate change, as its ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker yesterday, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Finance & Money, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution
From GreenerComputing.com IT professionals have become good environmental and privacy stewards during the past 10 years -- on paper. Corporate policy now generally reflects the fundamental tenets of good electronics stewardship, requiring verifiable data destruction and forbidding the use of landfills and export in lieu of responsible recycling. As anyone ... keep reading
Written by Robert Houghton yesterday, about Clean Technologies, Computing, Recycling
From our friends at Media Matters: Conservatives in the media have continued to cite the findings of a widely disputed study by a Spanish economist to assert or suggest that the United States will lose two jobs for every one green job created if the American Clean Energy and Security ... keep reading
Written by Media Matters yesterday, about Economics, Finance & Money, Media (1 comment)
Is the US finally about to get real about climate change? The draft G8 communiqué for this month’s meeting in Italy suggests so, with the text agreeing emissions should peak by 2020 and temperature rise be limited to +2C. If Obama sanctions this, it will be the first time ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset this week, about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Politics & Government
From our friends at Media Matters: CBSNews.com uncritically reported an internal EPA document's false claim that "global temperatures have declined for 11 years." In a June 26 CBSNews.com article reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency "may have suppressed" an internal report on climate change, senior correspondent Declan ... keep reading
Written by Media Matters this week, about Climate Change, Media
By Vivi Gorman, GREENandSAVE.com The United States has the highest emissions of greenhouse gases per capita in the world, according to a survey of the G8 countries’ efforts on clean energy and reducing pollution by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and German-based financial services company Allianz SE. On July 1 ... keep reading
Written by Vivi Gorman GREENandSAVE.com this week, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Emissions, Politics & Government, Pollution
Many years ago, I bought a beautiful wool sweater in Scotland. It was cream colored cable knit and I loved it. I wore it while traveling and it got a bit filthy. While in France, I decided to wash it at a public Laundromat and set the machine to C ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant this week, about Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Health
You can really trust the oil industry: ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, said it would stop funding climate change deniers. But company records for 2008 show hundreds of thousands of dollars being funneled into fringe “think tanks” and trusts with a record of producing misleading and inaccurate information ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset this week, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Weather
While poring through the stories in my RSS reader the other day, I was struck by a subheadline in one that read: "Senators push back passage of greenhouse gas bill." Without knowing any different, one might assume that this was in reference to the climate bill currently being considered in ... keep reading
Written by Timothy B. Hurst this week, about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Politics & Government
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