Archive for 'Energy'
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, November 19
Too bad that feeling guilty isn’t enough to reduce carbon emissions. But we’re excited that California passed efficiency standards to cut television electricity use in half by 2013. And how about the recovery of a rare giraffe species in Africa? Not bad news for a cool green morning.
There’ll be no more energy-sucking televisions in the state where TV was born, now that [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Business, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Green Living.
Tags: California, carbon emissions, corporate sustainability, rare giraffe, Responsible Travel, television energy efficiency, The Daily Green, UN Population Fund, women and climate change
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Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 18
Coke’s introducing the “PlantBottle.” Houston’s taking a modest step toward a greener image. Enviros are teaming up with the religious right to encourage climate action on the Hill. Today’s news is exceptionally cool AND green. Read on for more:
What’s more important than reaching a global agreement in Copenhagen? Scientific American thinks a U.S.-China deal on [...]
Posted: November 18th, 2009 under China, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Copenhagen, Energy, Green Living, Green Technology, Policy, United States.
Tags: China, Coca-Cola, Copenhagen, Green Inc., GreenBiz, Guardian, Prius, scientific american, Texas, Triple Pundit, U.S. climate legislation, United States
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How to Achieve a Global Climate Change Agreement
What will a successful global climate change agreement look like? That question is only more important to ask in the wake of this weekend’s agreement by President Obama to a plan that will ask world leaders to reach a political agreement at this December’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen, ahead of a more binding agreement [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, China, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Copenhagen, Energy, Forests, Policy, United States.
Tags: Brazil climate, Brazil emissions, Brazil forest climate, C-Learn, carbon emissions, China climate, China emission, Climate Interactive, Climate Interactive simulator, climate politics, climate simulator, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate, deforestation climate change, fossil fuel, greenhouse gas, India climate, Indonesia climate, Indonesia emission, Indonesia forest climate, Jon Hoekstra, Jonathan Hoekstra, low carbon habit, Planet Change, U.S. carbon emissions, UN climate
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 16
Good news about cow poop. Good news (?) about Copenhagen. Good news for those of you who’ve always dreamed of a dress made of LED lights. Happiness is the smell of a new Cool Green Morning, to paraphrase Don Draper…
The rehabilitation of poop continues: The Netherlands has opened its second cow-dung power plant, reports CleanTechnica [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Copenhagen, Energy, Europe, Fish, Forests, Green Living, Green Technology, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, South America.
Tags: Amazon deforest, Amazon forest, biogas, Brazil Amazon, CleanTechnica, Copenhagen, cow dung electricity, cow dung power plant, Dave Roberts, Dot Earth, Grist, Inhabitat, LED dress, lights dress, Netherlands cow dung, Obama, shark, Swarovski, The New York Times, tuna, turtle
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 10
Generally, giving struggling species a helping hand is considered a good thing — like saving the vaquita porpoise and anything cute and cuddly (read: koalas). But there’s hot debate over whether helping plants migrate as climate change transforms their habitat is positive or not. Read on for the latest on these cool green topics, and more.
We’re [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Animals, Australia, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Oceans & Coasts, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: assisted migration, Australia, Australia Koala Foundation, botanists, EPA, Gulf of California, habitat loss, Himalayas, India water supply, Kashmir glacier, koala, melting glacier, Mexico, plant relocation, receding glaciers, regulating emissions, saving species, trawling ban, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, vaquita porpoise
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 9
That’s not lice causing that scratching on your head (at least, we hope not) — it’s just a lot of head scratchers in today’s hot green news roundup. Stop the itch of curiosity right here!
Now here’s a question that’s been keeping millions up at night! Which is greener: Going into the refrigerator for a bottle [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2009 under Animals, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Green Living, Policy, Science, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Ask Pablo, Bright Green Blog, carbon emissions, carbon price, CleanTechnica, Climate Change, climate change denial, climate change denier, Columbia University, communicating climate change, Copenhagen climate, energy conservation, greenhouse gases, Institute for Policy Integrity, Jeremy Hance, Mongabay, Obama, Obama endangered species, ozone hole, Richard Black, The Psychology of Climate Change Communication, Treehugger, Water conservation
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What’s the Role of Science for Advocacy?
As the “energy sprawl” idea has been discussed and debated in the media, I (one of the paper’s co-authors) have grown a thick skin against criticism. Perhaps the harshest piece of invective, however, still bothers me: the criticism by Matt Wasson in the Huffington Post.
The factual criticisms Matt makes aren’t that troublesome to me, and [...]
Posted: November 5th, 2009 under Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Energy, Media, Science, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: coal, coal energy, coal sprawl, energy sprawl, Huffington Post, land use sprawl, marketplace idea, Matt Wasson, nuclear energy sprawl, public debate, Rob McDonald, Science magazine, scientist role, Searchinger, TV science, wind power, wind turbine
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, November 5
Things are looking up today — climate talks are reportedly going well, America beats the world in geothermal R&D, and great white sharks now have their very own singles bar. Ain’t life Cool?
How are things in Barcelona (aside from the shocking underperformance of its namesake soccer team this year)? For the climate talks now underway [...]
Posted: November 5th, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Energy, Fish, Policy, Science, South America, United States.
Tags: Barcelona climate, Climate Feedback, Copenhagen climate, EcoGeek, EcoWorldly, Ecuador, genome sequencing, geothermal, geothermal R&D, google, great white shark, IUCN Red List, Jeff Tollefson, Journal of Heredity, Journal Watch Online, shark cafe, vertebrate conservation, Washington Post
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 2
Orangutan-friendly palm oil sales are on the rise! Yah! Vandals are throwing the community bicycles of Paris into the Seine! Boo! Beware emotional whiplash in this roller-coaster edition of Cool Green Morning — just slip the buckle into the clasp and pull tight across your waist…
Can long-range climate forecasting get good enough to help us [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under Animals, Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Europe, Green Living, United States.
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Feedback, climate forecast, climate scare, Dot Earth, energy sprawl, Environmental Leader, global warming, Jane Lubchenco, New Scientist, NOAA, orangutan, palm oil, Paris bicycle, pets climate change, sustainable palm oil, Times of London, Triple Pundit, Wired Science
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 30
What’s more frightening than more Americans getting their news from Jon Stewart than a newspaper? When Jon Stewart says putting giant reflective mirrors into space will slow climate change…and he means it! It’s real scary stuff, kids, so we put it last in this morning’s Coolness to give you a good fright for the weekend! [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Birds, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Media, Policy, Water Conservation.
Tags: air pollution global warming, bird extinction, bird threat, CleanTechnica, climate change bird, Climate Feedback, Copenhagen, EcoGeek, Freakonomics, global warming, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart climate, Jon Stewart geoengineering, Journal Watch Online, Nature Reports Climate Change, Science air pollution, Science magazine, solar farm water, solar water, Steven Dubner, Steven Levitt, The Guardian, Todd Stern, Treehugger, wind turbine bird
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