In California, a new kind of water war is brewing. This time, it's not about rivers, wetlands or water rights (who has them, and who doesn't), but about Nestlé Water North America (NWNA) and its plans to build a water bottling plant near the city of McCloud, a ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts this week, about Air Quality, Consumerism, Industry, Water
Editor's Note: From our friends at SolveClimate, an article by David Sassoon on foreign wind energy jobs coming to the states. See the original article here. Shares in Denmark's Vestas -- the world's #1 wind turbine maker -- shot up 8 percent last Friday on news that the company ... keep reading
Written by SolveClimate last month, about Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Industry, Politics
On the global warming news front, the newest and perhaps most disturbing report of the year comes from Canada, where an Arctic park has been closed after record warm temperatures caused flash flooding. The park, ironically, is named Auyuittuq, which means "The Land That Never Melts" in Inuit. It is ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Environmental Disasters, Industry, Politics, Water (2 comments)
Oh, I feel dirty and bloated just thinking about the booze consumed by The Industry at _____'s corporate "Sweet 16" party. Held in Vegas, it was the party of all parties to celebrate our total domination of the ______industry. Birthed just sixteen years ago in a modest mansion overlooking ... keep reading
Written by Industry Insider last month, about Consumerism, Industry
Tom Rand is an Action Canada Fellow and Cleantech Venture Capitalist. His Celsias project is The Hotel Diaries. When philosopher Francis Fukuyama wrote that liberal democracy heralds the ‘end of history', neo-conservatives loved the idea, because then we could get on with business. It was not the lofty notions of ... keep reading
Written by Tom Rand last month, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Global Dimming, Industry, Philosophy & Religion, Politics
By Paul G. Blystone, Sunnyvale, California, USA Coal and natural gas power plants and oil-based transportation emissions are main contributors to man-made CO2 levels in the earth's atmosphere. In February 2007, I wrote an article published in Celsias entitled "The Coming Energy Shift" that focused on scenarios for ... keep reading
Written by Paul Blystone last month, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Design, Emissions, Energy Saving, Industry, Nuclear, Transport
Some would argue that there is no greater symbol of the computer age than the PC or Personal Computer. Splintered today into the desktop, laptop, palmtop, etc., we use it to store our intimate data, communicate with our colleagues and family, and perform the most mundane of everyday tasks; from ... keep reading
Written by John P. last month, about Clean Technologies, Computing, Economics, Energy Saving, Industry (2 comments)
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Every time you buy products such as food or gas, you are impacted by unregulated, secretive and often foreign commodities futures markets. Speculators in these markets are increasingly buying and selling commodities such as oil to sell again, rather than to use. As largely ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts last month, about Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Industry
In June, Florida's governor, Charlie Crist, announced that U.S. Sugar Corp. (the nation's largest sugar producer) and the state were close to finalizing an agreement on the purchase of U.S. Sugar's 300 square miles of Everglades holding. Environmentalists like Kirk Fordham of the Everglades Foundation ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Agriculture & Food, Deforestation, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Industry, Politics (2 comments)
Subsidies are bad; That's ECON 101. The reason being they distort the market: the subsidised product sells for less than it costs to produce, and so we buy more of it than we would without the subsidy. Making things worse, unsubsidized alternatives are placed at a disadvantage, and may ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon last month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry, Politics, Transport
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