Tag: Carbon Emissions - Page 8
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Documents Reveal Shell Paid Nigerian Military to Suppress Protests
Interesting news from The Guardian this week: oil giant Shell worked with the Nigerian military and with mobile police to suppress protests against its oil activities in the 1990s, according to court documents that were
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World Contraception Day is For Women's Rights, But It's For the Environment, Too
The connection between increased access to family planning and greenhouse gas emissions has been covered here before, but since World Contraception Day was this week and we're still so far from where we need to be on
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China's Per Capita Emissions May Overtake Those in US by 2017 - Now Same As Italy's
China became the largest national carbon emitter in 2007, overtaking the US. Last summer China also became the world's largest consumer of energy. Currently its per capita carbon footprint (6.8 tons) is roughly similar to that
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Creating 1 Million Energy Efficiency Jobs is "a No-Brainer": Bill Clinton
Retrofitting old buildings to make them more energy efficient is often described as the least sexy item on greens' to-do list. True, insulating buildings and installing new windows may seem less
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Good May Be Practical But Is It Good Enough? James Hansen Pitches Fee-and-Dividend Carbon Pricing
With Climate Week NYC drawing to a close (there's still the global Moving Planet action, organized by 350.org, on Saturday though...) I headed over to the New School to hear Dr James Hansen from NASA's Goddard Institute
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How Can This Island Nation Go 100% Carbon Neutral by 2020? (Video)
Photo: nattu via Flickr/CC BY Interview with Dr. Waheed, Vice President of the Maldives Yesterday, the island nation of Maldives announced that it had mandated that 60% of its energy be produced by solar power as part of its bid to go carbon neutral by
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No Impact Week is Sept 18-25 - Go On A Weekly Carbon & Waste Cleanse With YES! Magazine
In case you weren't aware, next week starts No Impact Week--which not so coincidentally is at the same time as Climate Week NYC and ends with 350.org's Moving Planet event on Saturday the 24th. So join YES! Magazine and the No Impact Project in going
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Two-Thirds of World's Biggest Businesses Now Put Climate Change at Heart of Strategy
The Carbon Disclosure Project has released its latest report on the what the world's largest public corporations are doing to reduce carbon emissions and report them. Accelerating Low Carbon Growth looked at the carbon disclosure from 396 companies and
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Wood Industry Opposes Biomass Power Too
Only yesterday Matt posted a video on why replacing coal with forest-based biomass fuels is no climate solution. And now we hear news that the UK wood industry is raising serious
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Replacing Coal With Biomass For Electricity Is No Climate Solution (Video)
In efforts to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants some operators are replacing coal with biomass--that is, at least some of the time, trees. Though claimed to be carbon neutral, as this video above from the NRDC shows, burning
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Switching To Natural Gas From Coal Will Reduce Global Warming Much Less Than Hoped
Natural gas may have lower greenhouse gas emissions when burned than coal, but widespread switching over to natural gas for electricity won't have much of an impact on reducing global warming, a new study from the National
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Electric Hearses as the Perfect Early EVs? Bury Me By Battery.
I've argued before that electric vehicles (EVs) do not have direct "gasoline equivalents", and that EVs are actually looking like increasingly viable every-day modes of transport for many of us. But there are a
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Greener "Liquid Cremation" Gains Foothold at a Florida Funeral Home (Video)
This probably won't come as big news to most readers, but we are all going to die. And that's why finding sustainable ways to deal with human remains should be an important priority. From composting your corpse to a
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Natural Gas Electricity Emits 47% Fewer Greenhouse Gases Than Coal: New Analysis
Even factoring upstream emissions of methane from flaring and leaks (that is, leaks and burning of gas before the end user flips the switch) natural gas emits far less greenhouse gases than does burning coal. That's the word of a new study from
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There are Now One Billion Cars Stuck in Traffic Around the World
According to the most recent stats, there are now a record one billion cars on the world's roads. One billion cars doing long and short commutes, one billion cars spurring the growth of unsustainable
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Another Airline Switches from Paper to iPads, But Are The Savings Worth It?
Following in the footsteps of American Airlines, United Continental has announced it is switching from paper flight manuals and documentation to using iPads. The iPads will replace about 38 pounds of paper in the
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New York Times Editorial Comes Out Against Keystone XL Pipeline
Some added encouragement for all those people protesting outside the White House against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline over the next couple weeks: The latest New York Times editorial comes out strongly against the pipeline, urging the
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Bill McKibben Versus The Terrifying Tar Sands (Podcast)
When renowned NASA climatologist James Hansen came on the podcast recently, he said some chilling words: if we burn the oil in the Canadian tar sands "it's essentially game over for the climate." The murky oil sands of Canada are the largest known
