According to the EPA, the cement industry was responsible for 829 million metric tons of CO2 emissions, or approximately 3.4% of global emissions in 2000. Today, that number is reported to be as high as 5%. The cement industry is also a major contributor to industrial process-related emissions and ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant in August, about Architecture, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Energy Saving, Industry & Business, Pollution (3 comments)
The great outdoors is a dangerous place for animals, who often die from hunger, predator attacks, or infections. But cancer can also be a culprit, and human pollution may be making it worse. By Daniel Heimpel at Newsweek Anoek de Groot / AFP-Getty Images; inset: AP Two healthy Tasmanian devils in ... keep reading
Written by Daniel Heimpel in August, about Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution
From GREENandSAVE.com More than eight million smart electric meters have been installed on U.S. homes, according to a new report. Park Associates, an international market research firm, said July 14 that number amounts to more than six percent of all meters for residences, an important step toward the ... keep reading
Written by Vivi Gorman GREENandSAVE.com in August, about Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Energy Saving, Finance & Money, Lifestyle & Behavior
This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. The best evidence is that the climate is now being driven by amplifying feedbacks (see ... keep reading
Written by Joe Romm in August, about Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Weather
In Uummannaq County on the west coast of Greenland, the Greenland shark is being looked to as an option for powering the community’s energy demand. The Centre for Arctic Technology (ARTEK) of the Technical University of Denmark is investigating whether Greenland sharks can be a useful resource for biogas ... keep reading
Written by Vivi Gorman GREENandSAVE.com in July, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Green energy, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Water
by Leslie Berliant for EnergyBoom Someone told me recently that the most important equation in understanding energy is E=MC2. That’s because if we could learn to extract the total amount of energy contained in any particular mass – and in a way more efficient than burning it - we could ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant in July, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Energy Saving, Industry & Business
A new report of scientific findings confirms not only that human activity is the primary cause of rising temperatures, but that climate change impacts are accelerating. The compilation of peer-reviewed research includes evidence that melting rates for mountain glaciers around the world doubled between 2004 and 2006, and that more ... keep reading
Written by World Resources Institute in July, about Climate Change, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
Ryan Lester is an Advocacy Intern at Campus Progress Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the “Green the Capitol” initiative in 2007 in order to demonstrate that the House was ready to back its talk on green energy with change. The initiative made plans to make the House carbon-neutral ... keep reading
Written by Ryan Lester in July, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Energy Saving, Green energy, Politics & Government
Since industrialised countries are most responsible for global warming, they owe poorer countries a ‘climate debt’. Rich countries need to pay off that debt by helping poorer countries adapt to climate change and by sharing the world's atmospheric space more fairly, says Nick Dearden at Share the World's ... keep reading
Written by Nick Dearden in July, about Climate Change, Economics, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Poverty & Development
Dirty Legacy Contaminates Groundwater of an Indiana Town by Aaron Jaffe at Circle of Blue Uncovered coal ash roads like this one are a common sight in the Town of Pines. The ash once used as filler material for roads, building projects and dumped in the local landfill, now contaminates ... keep reading
Written by Aaron Jaffe for Circle of Blue in July, about Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
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