published July 2, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Sarah McD via flickr Regardless of what methods are used, from hard geoengineering artificial CO2 scrubbers to softer methods like reforestation projects , actively removing carbon from the atmosphere will likely require a decades or centuries-long commitment if it is to really reverse global wa... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published June 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Cairo is behind that smog... photo: Nina Hale via flickr TreeHugger has written about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming--contributing a shocking amount to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas is just one example. Now, a group of researcher... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published June 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Skytruth Back when I was on the ground in the Gulf, I reported that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal had announced a plan to stop the oil spill from reaching his state's shoreline: building up barrier islands out of dredged materials to act as a shield. I was skeptical of the plan then, as I was worried that ...
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published June 22, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Jeffery DelViscio via flickr With all the talk about getting the United States off of oil, energy independence, creating a low-carbon future, et cetera, one of the key parts of that is reducing carbon emissions, whether they are from electricity, transportation or wherever they occur. Central to that is setting a price on carbon emissions. What options are ...
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published June 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Berkeley Square Jazz Senator John Kerry (D-MA) has become the figurehead for clean energy and climate legislation. After the bizarre unfolding of events with Lindsey Graham , Kerry and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are left to try to advance the bill through an unreceptive Senate. But today, the insider politics daily Politico has a head-scratching piece about how ...
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published June 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Global Green's Matt Petersen shows off his new suit made with old cassette tapes. Photos by Charley Gallay Global Green handed out its annual Millennium Awards last weekend, recognizing the EPA's 40th anniversary, green buildings and James Cameron's environmental message in Avatar , while raising funds for its efforts with the
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published June 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via OSTC With the gruesome pictures of oil-covered birds and soiled shorelines now rolling in, and the narrative of the spill split between BP's continued inability to get a handle on the flow from the source and the federal government's inability to get a handle on BP, an important element of this debacle has slid under the radar: ...
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published June 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Don't miss Josh and Brent's adventure in rural living on Planet Green . This guest post was written by bestselling author James Frey. Cars. Fumes. Horns endlessly blaring horns. Five bucks for a coffee. Eight for a sandwich. Trains that change their schedules every day. Cabs that are never available. People fucking everywhere. Concrete. Concrete is ugly. And it's ...
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published June 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo by Agaton Strom Some discouraging polls released late last year and early this year showed that American belief in man-caused global warming was on a serious decline. So-called Climate Gate and an unusually cold and snowy winter were blamed Now, it seems that the trend... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published May 19, 2010 and has No Comments
The disastrous oil crisis still unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico is only the most recent reminder that America is overdue to start a major transition to a clean energy economy. And meaningful energy reform is something that Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) has been pursuing for years. His book, Apollo's Fire, co-authored with Bracken Hendricks and with a foreword ...
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