Bottled water is sold to us as a fresh, healthy, and pure product. Yet in reality, when you buy a bottle of water you're may just be buying back your local tap water at a mark-up of up to 1000 times the actual cost. Not only is bottled water no better for you than plain old tap water, but the environmental cost of the packaging used to beautify it is a serious issue.
After dozens of new and gut-rehab LEED projects, the Grand Rapids, Michigan Habitat for Humanity affiliate is ready to begin a new era... that happens to be a really old era too.
Guardian: Australia's controversial carbon tax comes into effect on Sunday after years of heated debate that has divided public opinion and driven the Labor government to a 40-year low in opinion polls.
Under the new legislation, around 300 businesses will pay a fixed price of $AUD23/tonne for carbon emissions until 2015, when the market will set the price. Agriculture is exempt and trade-exposed industries like steel and aluminium will receive compensation of up to 94.5% on the price of permits.
The...
Telegraph: The Committee on Climate Change said greenhouse gas emissions fell by 7 per cent last year but only 0.8 per cent of the drop was due to climate change measures.
Emissions should be falling by around 3 per cent a year if the UK is to meet legally binding targets to tackle climate change.
Much greater investment is needed in low carbon energy, including onshore and offshore wind, nuclear and technology which captures the carbon from gas and coal and stores it permanently underground, the committee...
Home About Contact Tips Subscribe Donate Search this site : All Stories Climate Science Keystone XL Gas Drilling Nuclear Energy Clean Economy Breaking News Today's Climate All Topics June 29, 2012 Enbridge’s Retiring CEO Wishes Pipelines Weren’t Such a Hot Topic The Globe and Mail Tides Canada Stands Up to Government Critics NYT Green Colorado Wildfires : What Global Warming Really Looks Like' Guardian see all headlines New Keystone XL Route : Out of the Sandhills , but Still in the Aquifer Climate Change Disappears from Keystone XL Pipeline Debate May 23 Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed May 16 Frequent Floods Force Farmers to Rethink Age-Old Practices May 9 Why the Discredited Cloud Theory of Global Warming Won't Die Clean Economy News June 12 CaliforniaHome About Contact Tips Subscribe Donate Search this site : All Stories Climate Science Keystone XL Gas Drilling Nuclear Energy Clean Economy Breaking News Today's Climate All Topics June 29, 2012 Enbridge’s Retiring CEO Wishes Pipelines Weren’t Such a Hot Topic The Globe and Mail Tides Canada Stands Up to Government Critics NYT Green Colorado Wildfires : What Global Warming Really Looks Like' Guardian see all headlines New Keystone XL Route : Out of the Sandhills , but Still in the Aquifer Climate Change Disappears from Keystone XL Pipeline Debate May 23 Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed May 16 Frequent Floods Force Farmers to Rethink Age-Old Practices May 9 Why the Discredited Cloud Theory of Global Warming Won't Die Clean Economy News June 12 CaliforniaHome About Contact Tips Subscribe Donate Search this site : All Stories Climate Science Keystone XL Gas Drilling Nuclear Energy Clean Economy Breaking News Today's Climate All Topics June 29, 2012 Enbridge’s Retiring CEO Wishes Pipelines Weren’t Such a Hot Topic The Globe and Mail Tides Canada Stands Up to Government Critics NYT Green Colorado Wildfires : What Global Warming Really Looks Like' Guardian see all headlines New Keystone XL Route : Out of the Sandhills , but Still in the Aquifer Climate Change Disappears from Keystone XL Pipeline Debate May 23 Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed May 16 Frequent Floods Force Farmers to Rethink Age-Old Practices May 9 Why the Discredited Cloud Theory of Global Warming Won't Die Clean Economy News June 12 California: Home About Contact Tips Subscribe Donate Search this site : All Stories Climate Science Keystone XL Gas Drilling Nuclear Energy Clean Economy Breaking News Today's Climate All Topics June 29, 2012 Enbridge’s Retiring CEO Wishes Pipelines Weren’t Such a Hot Topic The Globe and Mail Tides Canada Stands Up to Government Critics NYT Green Colorado Wildfires : What Global Warming Really Looks Like' Guardian see all headlines New Keystone XL Route : Out of the Sandhills , but Still in the Aquifer Climate Change Disappears from Keystone XL Pipeline Debate May 23 Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed May 16 Frequent Floods Force Farmers to Rethink Age-Old Practices May 9 Why the Discredited Cloud Theory of Global Warming Won't Die Clean Economy News June 12Home About Contact Tips Subscribe Donate Search this site : All Stories Climate Science Keystone XL Gas Drilling Nuclear Energy Clean Economy Breaking News Today's Climate All Topics June 29, 2012 Enbridge’s Retiring CEO Wishes Pipelines Weren’t Such a Hot Topic The Globe and Mail Tides Canada Stands Up to Government Critics NYT Green Colorado Wildfires : What Global Warming Really Looks Like' Guardian see all headlines New Keystone XL Route : Out of the Sandhills , but Still in the Aquifer Climate Change Disappears from Keystone XL Pipeline Debate May 23 Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed May 16 Frequent Floods Force Farmers to Rethink Age-Old Practices May 9 Why the Discredited Cloud Theory of Global Warming Won't Die Clean Economy News June 12 CaliforniaHome About Contact Tips Subscribe Donate Search this site : All Stories Climate Science Keystone XL Gas Drilling Nuclear Energy Clean Economy Breaking News Today's Climate All Topics June 29, 2012 Enbridge’s Retiring CEO Wishes Pipelines Weren’t Such a Hot Topic The Globe and Mail Tides Canada Stands Up to Government Critics NYT Green Colorado Wildfires : What Global Warming Really Looks Like' Guardian see all headlines New Keystone XL Route : Out of the Sandhills , but Still in the Aquifer Climate Change Disappears from Keystone XL Pipeline Debate May 23 Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed May 16 Frequent Floods Force Farmers to Rethink Age-Old Practices May 9 Why the Discredited Cloud Theory of Global Warming Won't Die Clean Economy News June 12 California
No previous civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural supports. Nor will ours. 
Robert Rapier investigates the data from BP's Statistical Review of World Energy and highlights some of the key numbers in consumption of crude oil, coal, and natural gas.
London, 25th June 2012 MWPS, The online market leader in facilitating the purchase and sale of new and used wind turbines across the globe, announces a strategic business alliance with Free Breeze Energy Systems UK, who distributes RRB wind turbines worldwide and provides complete turnkey solutions for wind farm projects. The partnership brings together two major [...]
A new study, published in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science & Technology journal, indicates that bigger is better when it comes to turbines. In a nutshell, the results of their research showed that the larger the turbine is, the greener the electricity. This effect was due both to sheer size of the turbine plus [...]
Bloomberg: Supplying electricity to the “billions of people living in abject poverty” is a more important goal than curbing greenhouse-gas emissions, Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson said.
Electricity will do more to improve the quality of life for people who still cook food by burning animal dung than trying to prevent climate change, which will be “manageable,” Tillerson said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York today.
Environmental groups and scientists are urging...
On Monday, June 25th, the New Jersey legislature provided strong hope for a correction in the volatile New Jersey solar renewable energy credit (“SREC”) market. Both the Assembly and the Senate passed S1925 which contains an amended schedule for increasing the solar carve-out in the Renewable Portfolio Standard (“RPS”) and decreasing the Solar Alternative Compliance [...]
A kitchen remodel isn’t just a chance to make your space more trendy or functional, it can also be a chance to make it more environmentally friendly. 
Mongabay: The Brazilian government is putting its global environmental leadership at risk by ignoring scientific concern on large infrastructure projects and changes in the country's forest laws, warned an association of more than 1,200 tropical scientists gathering last week in Bonito, Brazil on the heels of the disappointing Rio+20 Earth Summit.
While world leaders convened in Rio de Janeiro for the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development scientists from 48 countries met at the 49th annual meeting...
New York Times: Obama pledging to green-light a southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline at a pipeyard near Cushing, Okla., in March.
The Obama administration, moving swiftly on the president’s promise to expedite the southernmost portion of the disputed Keystone XL pipeline, has granted construction permits for part of the route passing through Texas, officials said on Tuesday.
The Army Corps of Engineers on Monday told TransCanada, which wants to build a 1,700-mile pipeline to carry heavy crude from Alberta...Mongabay: Greenpeace has launched a consultation process to establish global standards for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) projects.
Today the environmental group released a set of international safeguards to reduce the likelihood REDD+ projects result in social conflict, have adverse impacts on wildlife and forest biodiversity, fuel corruption, subsidize industrial logging of primary forests, or disenfranchise local communities. Greenpeace is seeking comment on the standards...
Jigar Shah showed that tweaking the financing model for solar power could expand its use. Now he is helping raise $1 billion to advance even more "underappreciated" energy technologies.
New York Times: Two major oil companies joined by a chemical company and an investment group have invested $9 million in a commercial carbon capture project in Texas that will treat the flue gases from a coal-fired cement kiln and turn them into marketable chemicals.
A company hopes to turn a profit through sales of sodium bicarbonate and other chemicals produced from coal-fired flue gases.
The $125 million project, to be built in San Antonio with the aid of federal grants totaling $28 million, is intended...Mongabay: Brazil's ambitious plans to build 30 dams in the Amazon basin could trump the country's efforts to protect the world's largest rainforest, said a leading Amazon scientist speaking at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Bonito, Brazil.
Philip Fearnside of Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia in Manaus, warned that contrary to claims put forth by proponents, dams in the Amazon aren't a source of green energy. Nor do they offer good returns...
SciDev.Net: The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) ended last Friday (22 June) with an international agreement on the need for all countries to commit themselves to achieving sustainable development.
The agreement immediately came under fire from several quarters for its lack of detail about how this will be done, and the absence of new financial commitments from the developed world.
Critics in the scientific and technical communities also said it lacked adequate recognition...
redOrbit: The sea level of the US West Coast is expected to increase 60 centimeters from Washington to northern California, while waters surrounding the southern half of that state could rise a meter in less than two decades time, claims a National Research Council (NRC) report published Friday.
The study, which was sponsored by Washington, Oregon, and California, was requested in response to the climate change-caused increase in global sea level during the 20th century, the NRC said in a June 22 press...
New York Times: For the past two weeks, representatives from around the world met here for Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, to define a global plan of action that would take humanity toward a cleaner, greener future. They failed. The text they agreed upon on Friday is a caricature of diplomacy. It “acknowledges” many challenges and “encourages” action, but there are few real commitments. We are living way beyond our means. We are using 50 percent more resources than the Earth can provide;...
New York Times: When the smoke finally clears and new plant life pokes up from the scorched earth after the wildfires raging in the southern Rockies, what emerges will look radically different than what was there just a few weeks ago. According to Craig Allen, a research ecologist with the United States Geological Survey in Los Alamos, N.M., forests in the region have not been regenerating after the vast wildfires that have been raging for the last decade and a half.
Dr. Allen, who runs the Jemez Mountains Field...
Guardian: Carbon dioxide emissions have risen by even more than previously thought, according to new data analyzed by the Guardian, casting doubt on whether the world can avoid dangerous climate change.
The data has emerged as governments met in Rio de Janeiro to finalize the outcome of the Rio+20 conference, aimed at ensuring that economic growth does not come at the expense of irreparable environmental degradation, but which activists say has not achieved enough to stave off severe environmental problems....
Guardian: Two Conservative cabinet members have asked the prime minister to do more to boost investment in low carbon energy and other green infrastructure.
The latest intervention comes after the foreign secretary, William Hague, urged David Cameron to provide more support to help green industries boost the economy, stop the UK falling behind international rivals, and avoid losing its global leadership on the environment.
In response to Hague's letter in March, the development secretary, Andrew Mitchell,...
The Centre for Sustainable Energy published an independent, eye-opening report last year which dispelled many of the half-baked myths about problems with wind power. It is interesting to note the silence with which the conclusions of this report were met by those with deep-set prejudices, or representing the fossil-fuel lobby. It was comprehensive and dispelled [...]
When your little angel tears open the box of mostly edible treats known as “The Happy Meal,” what she’ll find is a package: You get the cheeseburger, the fries, the chocolate milk, the apple slices, plus that toy. It’s a successful package, and it works. So too is solar marketing, but like the Happy Meal, it’s not often a balanced package. As much
Denver-based Waste Farmers, a venture by Inspired Economist founder John-Paul Maxfield, has been recognized as an "Impact company" by The [i4c] Campaign, and featured in a new video series by the organization.
This time of year brings an abundance of fruits and vegetables to farmer’s markets and grocery stores - the perfect time to stretch that food budget even further through home preservation.
Is Europe's strict stance on protecting people's data costing it business—or creating new opportunities?
On June 15th, Mayor Vincent C. Gray of Washington D.C. presented the 2012 Mayor’s Sustainability Award to Sol Systems. The Mayor’s Sustainability Awards are awarded through a competitive selection process and this year’s winners represent a range of innovative approaches to improve the lives of residents, the quality of our environment, and access to healthy [...]
Before you make an investment in green windows, educate yourself about some of the differences between energy-efficient windows and non energy-efficient windows.
Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch was born in Hameln/Weser, Germany, in 1947. He worked in various functions in the state’s Ministry of North-Rhine Westphalia, eventually as Director-General and Head of the Planning Agency. After holding diverse posts in the Minister-President’s office and state Environment Ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia Adamowitsch in 1996 moved to the VEW energy corporation [...]
The company that knows everything about you wants you to feel in control.
Home About Contact Advertise Consumer Energy Report Biodiversivist Choke Points Econbrowser Editors' Corner Power Policy R-Squared Energy Column By Robert Rapier on Jun 11, 2012 with 28 responses Future Direction of Oil Prices May See a Major Shift : Tags China Oil Prices peak oil Tweet Steady Climb Since I first started writing about energy in 2005, I have said many times that my view on oil prices is long-term , and that if I projected five years into the future , I foresaw oil prices being higher than they were in the . present The chart below using spot prices from the Energy Information Administration EIA for both Brent and West Texas Intermediate WTI crudes shows that this has held true since 2001. The annual average price of crude source is again EIA rose every year from 2001 25.98
Denmark have started off very well in Euro 2012 football, beating Holland 1-0, but Denmark has not only doing well in football but especially in the world of wind power for many years. It is no coincidence that even before you set foot in Copenhagen, you’ll see your first wind turbine there. It’s on the [...]
Home About Contact Advertise Consumer Energy Report Biodiversivist Choke Points Econbrowser Editors' Corner Power Policy R-Squared Energy Column By Robert Rapier on Jun 4, 2012 with 60 responses How Taxpayers Could Benefit From High Oil Prices : Tags bernie sanders energy policy fuel economy oil royalties oil subsidies subsidy reform Tweet In last week’s post If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy I mentioned three specific examples of legislation under consideration that create uncertainties within U.S . energy policy . These uncertainties increase the financial risks for those trying to develop energy projects both for conventional fossil-based projects and for renewable energy . projects One piece of energy legislation that was recently introduced is called the End Polluter Welfare Act