Is it Friday already? So let's get linking. What does global warming have to do with the price of rice…anywhere? According to one expert, a one degree Celsius rise in temperature at night may cause a 10-percent drop in rice output. This study suggests that as global warming ... keep reading
Written by Doug Snodgrass yesterday, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Pollution, Transport
Vaclav Smil is a historian of technical advances -- particularly in the field of energy -- and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada. Over the years, Smil has written more than 25 books and many dozens of articles. In recent years he has been examining human uses of ... keep reading
Written by Peter Montague yesterday, about Biofuels, Carbon Sequestration, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Energy Saving, Nuclear, Politics, Transport
And that's not all. We reported recently on this site on the solar powered car making its way around the world. We also covered the concept of solar roads to capture usable energy. We even reported on a sail boat powered with a solar sail. Now the BBC reports ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant this week, about Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Transport (1 comment)
The U.S. government's Climate Change Science Program issued a report in August 2008 in which it confirms that the warming our climate has experienced in the last few decades is the result of human activity. This is not the first time that "human activity" has been identified as ... keep reading
Written by John P. this week, about Clean Technologies, Transport (10 comments)
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The high-profile launch of the world's cheapest car - the £1,250 Tata Nano - was in jeopardy last night after tens of thousands of protesters gathered at the factory being built to produce the vehicle, complaining that the land had been taken illegally from ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts this week, about Agriculture & Food, Politics, Transport
In February 2008, four countries made a public commitment to going carbon neutral; New Zealand, Norway, Iceland and Costa Rica. Of those, Costa Rica set the most ambitious target - carbon neutrality by 2021. Reaching such a goal by that date will make it the first country in the world to ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant this month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Politics, Transport (1 comment)
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 this month, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Design, Emissions, Energy Saving, Industry, Nuclear, Transport
The world's first solar sail was unfurled on August 18th, as part of Nantucket's Race Week. Explorer Robert Swan will be using the groundbreaking sail on his sail boat ‘2041', currently on an around-the-world journey to raise awareness on climate change. The sail features thin-film solar cells ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams this month, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Transport
The electric Zecar, a car that costs less than 2p a mile to run, goes on sale in Britain today. The Zecar has space for five adults, is shorter than a Mini, is almost six feet tall, and costs around £15,000 ($30,000 US). The company also produces Zevan ... keep reading
Written by Peter D. this month, about Energy Saving, Transport
As gas prices rise, decades-long trends in transportation in the U.S. are reversing. Public transit ridership in 2007 hit its highest rate in fifty years, while driving miles are on the decline for the first time since 1980. Americans drove fewer miles in May 2008 than the previous May ... keep reading
Written by Britt Gordon-McKeon this month, about Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Politics, Transport
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