Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on May 8th, 2009
You Are the Light of the World The Holy Grail: Carbon-Capturing Cement Plus other writers on Shell, starting an ecodriving school, and much, much more.
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Climate Change Solutions, Old King Coal on May 3rd, 2009
Humanity has burned half the fossil fuels required to force a 2°C rise in average global temperatures, and at the current rate, we’ll have 40 years to become a 100 percent renewable-energy society. That’s the message in a new study published in Nature last week which tries to simplify the climate debate by suggesting that [...]
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, USA on May 2nd, 2009
Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman writing in The New York Times about why a cap-and–trade policy is exactly what we need in the recession. An Affordable Salvation By Paul Krugman The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation’s capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a [...]
Posted in Climate Change Solutions, Politics, USA on Apr 27th, 2009
Diplomats from the world’s biggest GHG polluters are meeting at the US State Department this week trying to make progress on the Road to Copenhagen. The two-day meeting of major economies is meant to jump-start climate talks, and hopefully lead to a new international understanding in advance of the December deadline, when a new climate [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on Apr 13th, 2009
Better Place began with a $200 million venture capital investment, and the company has easily garnered that much again in enthusiastic publicity. Since its founding in late 2007, barely a week goes by without the electric vehicle-and-infrastructure project cutting a new deal that makes business headlines in newspapers across the world. Why? Certainly, founder Shai [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Progressive Coalition on Apr 10th, 2009
They started with fireworks, but ended with a fizzle. The 175 countries at the United Nations climate talks in Bonn have made little progress on the key sticking points in the climate treaty that will succeed Kyoto. Under the Bali roadmap, a new international accord must be in place by December at the annual UN [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency, Politics, USA on Apr 1st, 2009
On global warming and energy independence, President Obama’s team continues to make exceptional moves. This week, Rep Henry Waxman and Rep Edward Markey released a draft of a comprehensive energy bill that hits as many high notes as a Pavarotti opera. Joe Romm has an excellent analysis. Here’s the nitty gritty: The early version of [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency, Politics on Mar 27th, 2009
In the wake of the AIG scandal, it’s refreshing to see that some companies are tying company bonuses to significant achievements for both the corporation and society. National Grid — a London-based utility company — has has become the latest and biggest UK firm to link the company’s success in reducing its carbon footprint to [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency, Politics, USA on Mar 22nd, 2009
It’s easy to grow weary of the excuses and the bullshit. In Canada, we pretend that nation is singular and unique, that it’s somehow harder for Canadians to cut their greenhouse gas emissions because of our special circumstances. The Great White North, so cold and vast and unforgiving. It’s easy for the British to cut [...]
Posted in Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on Mar 22nd, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Gerbrand Ceder and graduate student Byoungwoo Kang have published details of their battery breakthrough in Nature, and more than a few business executives are paying attention. Lithium batteries are known for their power, but they’ve always been slow to charge and discharge, and that has been the technology’s Achilles [...]