• Prefabricated Bank Campus Cashes in on Sustainability

    Updated: 2010-08-31 16:34:40
    Russia's leading bank has just unveiled plans to construct a green-roofed corporate university designed by Dutch Architect Erick van Egeraat. Located in a rural setting west of Moscow, the Sberbank University will provide education and training for t...

  • Sustainability is Not Black Or White - More Sustainable is Possible

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:57:35
    Image credit: D'Arcy Norman & timtak (Creative Commons)When I wrote about industrial agriculture exploring sustainability, commenter Ruben suggested that the idea of something being more sustainable was illogical. Citing Bill Rees, the inventor of ...

  • U.S. Coast Guard to Install New Wind Turbine at Base in Maine

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:48:04
    Following in the footsteps of the U.S. military's embracing of renewable energy, such as fighter jets running on biofuel and hydrogen fuel cell powered tanks, the U.S. coast guard has decided to use wind power by installing a turbine at their Southwe...

  • Wyoming toughens hydrofrack rules

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:12:49
    As New York State considers rules to control natural gas hydrofracking, which relies on a high-pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water to break up gas-bearing rocks underground, another state where hydrorfracking has been happening is requiring drilling companies to disclose specific chemicals on a well-by-well basis. The new rules, which water protection groups says are [...]

  • Boxy Wooden Treehouse Tower Now Open in Netherlands!

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:43:40
    We've seen plenty of tree houses in our day, but never one as boxy and modern as this new wooden observation tower which recently opened in the Netherlands. Okay so technically the structure, which consists of six boxes (that almost look like shippin...

  • Self-Sufficiency Versus a Backyard CSA (Video)

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:43:15
    Image credit: Peak Moment TVA few years ago, Scott McGuire launched an experiment in backyard sustainability exploring how much food he could grow in his backyard for his family, and whether they could reach self-sufficiency. So what happened? Havi...

  • Domestic Workers and Climate Change

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:32:11
    At 11:00am this morning, Gov. David Paterson will sign the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in New York City. This represents a real accomplishment. Here’s what Domestic Workers United says on its website about their battle to able to organize for their rights as workers: “The moment is finally here. Governor Paterson will indeed be signing [...]

  • Business and ethics?

    Updated: 2010-08-31 13:13:07
    BOONE Topics from environmental ethics to religion and nature will be featured during the 2010 Business and Environmental Ethics Conference Sept. 17 at Appalachian State University. Other topics include environmental economics, strategy and nature,...

  • Small & Medium Sized Enterprises: Why Do a GRI Report?

    Updated: 2010-08-31 09:25:38
    The following post is part of a series on 3p about the global reporting initiative and is part of a promotion for our upcoming GRI certification course in November By Brooks Nelson Getting training to create a sustainability report can be a hard sell...

  • Taastrup Theater Renovation Boasts a Stunning Prismatic Facade

    Updated: 2010-08-31 06:00:06
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  • Global Solar Enters the CIGS Flexible Solar Module Business

    Updated: 2010-08-31 05:00:15
    Global Solar has been shipping flexible CIGS solar cells for years for applications in portable solar charging, as well as selling PV cells in strings for other vendors to assemble into modules. Global Solar has also supplied CIGS cells to Dow's so...

  • Solar needs a new Metric

    Updated: 2010-08-31 03:42:00
    I just read a very interesting article from Motley Fool on the oversupply of solar in the marketplace that is predicted in 2011. The article went on to try to compare the competitive position of the thin-film mfg and the crystalline mfg based on $/W...

  • US EPA Official Says "No on 23"

    Updated: 2010-08-31 00:56:46
    U.S. EPA Administrator Jared Blumenfeld is just the latest official to speak out against Proposition 23. Continue reading »

  • Obama’s EPA: School Marms R Us

    Updated: 2010-08-30 22:12:26
    The Obama Administration’s EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSHA) are proposing new rules “labeling each passenger car with a  government letter grade from A to D based on its fuel efficiency and emissions,” the Wall Street Journal reports. The…

  • SunPower Scores More U.S. Government Solar Installations

    Updated: 2010-08-30 22:06:58
    With its share price needing a boost, SunPower (SPWRA, SPWRB:NASDAQ) announced today it has been selected to install its solar technology at several U.S. government properties totaling a minimum of 20 megawatts (MW). Today's announcement is in addit...

  • Green Business Blog Carnival #12 at Green Building Elements

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:38:58
    Another week, another Green Business Blog Carnival. Our friends at Green Building Elements did a very nice job of wrapping up the news you can use from the green business blogosphere Quite a variety of stories this week from the business of sust...

  • Pop-Up Village for Haiti Made From 900 Shipping Containers

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:15:32
    Haitian Canadian musician Luck Mervil is leading the charge to help rebuild Haiti with houses made from repurposed shipping containers. Mervil is behind the Montreal organization Vilaj Vilaj, which wants to use 900 shipping containers to build an ent...

  • Friends of the Earth Urges End to 'Land Grab' for Biofuels

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:00:00
    by Katie AllenCharity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020Cane cutter wields machete. Friends of the Earth says that biofuel crops, including sugar cane, 'are competin...

  • IPCC report card

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:59:37
    The Inter-Academy Council report on the processes and governance of the IPCC is now available. It appears mostly sensible and has a lot of useful things to say about improving IPCC processes – from suggesting a new Executive to be able to speak for IPCC in-between reports, a new communications strategy, better consistency among working [...]

  • Germany's Nuclear Bridge

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:41:00
    Since I've been taking potshots at German energy policy recently, I was pleased to see that it appears the country's government is nearing a reasonable compromise concerning nuclear power, which accounts for 22% of the electricity generated in German...

  • SOM Announces Opening of LEED Gold Tower, Tallest in Beijing

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:28:22
    The China World Trade Tower III celebrated its grand opening today, closing the third and most recent phase of the incredible China World Trade Center development. The 81-story mixed-use tower is now Beijing's tallest tower, hosting a hotel, offices...

  • WEBINAR: Beyond the Meter: Next Generation Smartgrid

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:55:00
    Live Webcast Sept. 8, 1 PM ET / 11 AM PTDiscussing the challenges and opportunities associated with a new energy grid and the data that comes with it.The modernization of electrical grids presents an opportunity to improve the efficient use of energy...

  • I Am Shocked -- Shocked! -- At Green Hypocracy

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:47:00
    by Richard T. StuebiIn today's world, it's easy to claim being green . You can recycle, you can drive a Prius, you can have solar panels on your house, you can install CFLs in every light socket, but...in actuality, how green really are you?This que...

  • Roundup: Kior Gets Millions from Miss; Sunovia Gets New CEO and More

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:40:14
    Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has managed to attract a third large greentech company to his state.Kior, which says it can make synthetic petroleum from biomass, will build five commercial scale facilities in the state. Three of the five will be ...

  • Will Biofuels Go Mainstream?

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:13:14
    Cheap, plentiful biofuels could ameliorate a host of global problems: carbon emissions, trade imbalances, agricultural employment in the middle of the country and in emerging nations.And there is no doubting the demand. The world consumes the equi...

  • Cow Power Not Cutting It

    Updated: 2010-08-30 05:35:32
    Technology to combat one kind of pollution ends up causing another. Continue reading »

  • Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands

    Updated: 2010-08-27 22:41:40
    This is a guest post from Gabe DeRita, cross-posted from the Sierra Club’s Climate Crossroads blog. The pen is mightier than the sword, but the purse may sometimes be mightier than the pen. Major US corporations are adding market pressure to the growing wave of opposition against tar sands expansion, giving tar sands producers a [...]

  • Feds to States on Global Warming Suit: Back Off

    Updated: 2010-08-27 17:10:31
    The tug-of-war continues over who has the right to regulate carbon emissions. Continue reading »

  • Pennsylvania makes tougher rules for gas drilling water pollution

    Updated: 2010-08-26 21:05:46
    As the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation weighs new rules to regulate natural gas drilling using hydrofracking _ which uses a high-pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water to break up underground gas-bearing rocks _ the state of Pennsylvania yesterday announced tougher rules to control polluted water that is created as part of [...]

  • News Flash: Climate Change Isn’t Going Away, and Neither Are We

    Updated: 2010-08-26 20:56:01
    Environmental groups, renewable energy businesses, and grassroots activists rallied last week outside the federal building in Albany calling on Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to push for Senate action on a climate change bill this year. The event, called “Rethink, Refuel: Offshore Drilling and Climate Change,” drew connections between the BP oil catastrophe (“spill” is too weak [...]

  • Another Mountain Critter Confronts Climate Change

    Updated: 2010-08-25 02:32:18
    A rocky future for "Rocky?" Wildlife advocates move to protect a California flying squirrel from climate change. Continue reading »

  • National Security Risks of Biofuel Mandates — Corrected*

    Updated: 2010-08-25 00:06:18
    Those amazing Idsos who run the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change review a paper recently published in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment by Mulder et al. (2010), who assess the energy return on…

  • Forecasting

    Updated: 2010-08-23 16:34:42
    One of the defenses often used by climate modelers against charges that climate is simple to complex to model accurately is that “they do it all the time in finance and economics.”  This comes today from Megan McArdle on economic forecasting: I find this pretty underwhelming, since private forecasters also unanimously think they can make [...]

  • The Great British Solar Scam (and the scourge of feed-in tariffs)

    Updated: 2010-08-23 15:53:56
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  • Global warming evidence is ‘unmistakable’

    Updated: 2010-08-23 14:40:17
    A new report released by the Met Office and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has come to the conclusion that there is "unmistakable signs" that "the world is warming". The report is based on 10 different indicators of … Continue reading →

  • Marcellus Shale eyed for greenhouse gas storage

    Updated: 2010-08-21 15:36:52
    A lot of New Yorkers have heard about the Marcellus Shale over the last several years. The gas-rich underground rock formation, which stretches from the western Catskills through the Southern Tier and into the Allegany region has sparked a fierce public debate over the safety of a drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. Hydrofracking [...]

  • Doing it yourselves

    Updated: 2010-08-21 00:11:18
    Surface temperature data sets, surfactemperatures.org, Hadley, Broberg, GSOD, McShane and Wyner, paleoclimate reconstructions, BAMS State of the Climate 2009

  • Rebuilding a Buffer Against Climate Impacts

    Updated: 2010-08-20 22:31:06
    The lowly salt marsh could be one of our best defenses against rising sea levels. A major new effort is underway to expand them in San Francisco Bay. Continue reading »

  • Is GOP Opposition to Cap-and-Trade Self-Contradictory?

    Updated: 2010-08-18 16:12:24
    Betsy Moler of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership and Phil Sharp of Resources for the Future would like Republicans to think so. After all, if GOP opposition to cap-and-trade is self-contradictory, then it is unstable, hence reversible. Few Republicans will be gulled by…

  • Al Gore: the Gift that Keeps on Giving

    Updated: 2010-08-17 15:52:16
    Former Vice President Al Gore is the gift that keeps on giving to opponents of global warming alarmism and energy rationing policies. He leads what I think of as the Dream Team: Gore is the public leader; James Hansen is…

  • Primer on Extreme Weather Mortality

    Updated: 2010-08-16 17:35:19
    The indomitable Indur Goklany — “Goks” to his friends — has just posted a primer on extreme weather-related mortality entitled, Global Death Toll From Extreme Weather Events Declining.  If you are one of the hapless millions who watched Al Gore’s scare-you-mentary, An…

  • Heat Records Set in 17 Countries -- So Far

    Updated: 2010-08-14 00:44:15
    You wouldn't know it from California's summer but this year is a little more than half done, and already it's one for the climate record books. Continue reading »

  • The Key to the Secrets of the Troposphere

    Updated: 2010-08-13 14:54:25
    A response from Justin Wood, writing to me from Australia after my previous post (cited with permission below), has prompted me to write a follow-up on the story of the greenhouse effect (GHE). I wonder if you’ve seen this terrible description of the greenhouse effect on a UNFCCC background page? http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2903.php It actually says that incoming [...]

  • Why It Is Good to Have Two Sides of A Debate

    Updated: 2010-08-12 18:27:22
    With climate alarmists continuing to declare climate debate to be over and asking skeptics to just go away, we are reminded again why it is useful to have two sides in a debate.  Few people on any side of any question typically are skeptical of data that support their pet hypotheses.    So, in order to [...]

  • Just When I Thought I Had Seen the Worst Possible Peer-Reviewed Climate Work…

    Updated: 2010-08-12 18:09:17
    This is really some crazy-bad science in a new study by Welch et al on Asian rice yields purporting to show that they will be reduced by warmer weather.  This is an odd result on its face, given that rice yields have been increasing as the world has warmed over the last 50 years. Now, it [...]

  • Computers are Causing Global Warming

    Updated: 2010-08-12 17:55:35
    At least, that is, in Nepal.  Willis Eschenbach has an interesting post looking into the claim that Nepal has seen one of the highest warming rates in the world (thus threatening Himalayan glaciers, etc etc).  It turns out there is one (1) GISS station in Nepal, and oddly enough the raw data shows a cooling [...]

  • UN Economists Propose Fast-track Green Taxes for $100bn Climate Fund

    Updated: 2010-08-12 10:46:03
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  • Wind Over Nuclear: Green Zealot Huhne Blowing UK Power Future

    Updated: 2010-08-12 09:47:51
    : HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor NEW BOOK How naive politicians , green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides Now available for pre-sale Released September , 2010 272 pages , hardback from Continuum Publishing Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone

  • Granola Free Energy Management Software Helps Blog Readers Reduce Global Warming and Their Electric Bill

    Updated: 2010-08-11 16:00:00
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  • Green Jobs: California's Economic Bright Spot

    Updated: 2010-08-09 18:39:17
    One of the strongest arguments for passing a climate and clean energy bill is that it will boost the economy and create jobs. Here's more evidence to support that claim: an updated map compiled by Environmental Defense Fund that shows more than 3,500 "green" businesses in California alone.   EDF's Tim Connor wrote about the map on our [...]

  • The Carbon Prayer

    Updated: 2010-08-09 16:02:16
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  • Monckton makes it up

    Updated: 2010-08-07 14:59:27
    Christopher Monckton, Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, making stuff up.

  • Evidence of Global Warming Expands, June 2010 Hottest June Ever, 2010 on Track to be Hottest Year Ever

    Updated: 2010-08-04 16:00:00
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