Offshore wind will reach 70.1 GW of capacity by 2017, says Pike Research. That's 17 times its current capacity, which is 4.1 GW, and amounts to several times the current maximum solar capacity of the most solared-out country in the world, Germany . Europe is currently in the lead on o...
Real estate investment managers came late to the green game, said Peter Belisle, president of energy and sustainability services in the Los Angeles office of Jones Lang LaSalle. Demand -- particularly from high-profile institutional investors such as the $230.1 billion California Publ...
Facing the Dirty Truth About Recycled Plastics The “recyclable” plastic bags you get at the green grocer are not really biodegradable, a new study shows. But product life-cycle assessments, which are about to become more prominent in the marketplace, fail to consider whether those bag...
For decades sharks have been characterized as villains and the enemies of humanity in TV and film, creating a stereotype that has unjustly resulted in years of apathy about their survival. Yet despite the fact that sharks are the kings of the sea -- one of the ocean’s top predator spe...
Amtrak just had its 40th birthday, and like many 40-year-olds, it is a diminished version of what it once was. It's still hanging on, and some lines have even been restored over time, in part thanks to the efforts of the National Association of Railroad Passengers (who made these maps...
Trotzdem kämpft Johannes Teyssen für lange Laufzeiten seiner Atomreaktoren. Greenpeace kritisiert, dass der Energiekonzern mit dieser Haltung die Energiewende blockiert. Gerade einmal ein Prozent des von E.ON in Deutschland produzierten Stroms stammen aus Wind- und Sonnenkraft. Auch i...
Tuskless elephants : In Zambia, the proportion of tuskless female elephants went from 10 percent to 40 percent in 20 years. In Sri Lanka, fewer than 5 percent of male elephants now have tusks. This is all due to poaching -- elephants without tusks live longer and reproduce more, becau...
On Birds, Twitter and Teaching By ANDREW C. REVKIN Now that I’m spending more time in classrooms than the newsroom , I often face students displaying a peculiar kind of bifocal gaze divided between the front of the room and the laptop screen. So I know about the frustrations of teache...
If the first thing you think of when I say "Rwanda" is "Don Cheadle looking worried while a radio booms 'Hutu Power!' in a basso profundo," it's time you updated your thinking. The country is currently looking into meeting its need for electricity by tapping into the hot rocks that un...
Photo Credit: Abeeeer /Creative Commons This article was written by JD Norton, Community Engagement Manager for the eBay Green Team and contributor to eBayGreenTeam.com . Can we say it's spring? We don't want to jinx it and we've been wrong before, but it feels like spring. We're doin...
Living in their own filth inside urine soaked pens is how rescuers found 50 pregnant dogs and newborn puppies on Wednesday in a raid on a puppy mill in rural Texas. The owner of the property is a convicted animal abuser who is forbidden from owning more than two dogs. The case against...
While it may be true that their boats are up north, we are hearing reports that some sort of whale was killed in Taiji Town yesterday and today the molesters drove a pod of (possible) pilot whales into the cove. After a big show in late February of removing the banger poles and taking...
Facing the Dirty Truth About Recyclable Plastics The recyclable plastic bags you get at the green grocer are not biodegradable. But product life-cycle assessments, which are about to become more prominent in the marketplace, fail to consider whether those bags will break down in landf...
Much bigger and more expensive, but less gaudy: Gov. Chris Christie and developers laid out a new vision on Tuesday for completing and expanding the vast retail and entertainment complex formerly known as Xanadu in the Meadowlands.... "It's finally going to move forward now," Mr. Chri...
Aaa-choo! Tis the season for Kleenex, eye drops, and decongestants. Allergy season is upon us. Its symphony can be heard in the refrains of sniffles, sneezes and nose blowing. If you suffer from the wide array of seasonal allergy symptoms such as fatigue; sinus congestion; itchy eyes...
Live in a tiny apartment with no room for a garden? Life on the Balcony may just have the answer to gardening in even the narrowest of spaces—and it all comes down to a recycled shipping pallet. We've already seen a theater built from recycled pallets , not to mention DIY pallet-wood ...
World's largest beef company signs Amazon rainforest pact (04/29/2011) The world's largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor's office in the state...
We have been asked why we are making noise about whales and dolphins when there is so much human misery in Japan at the moment. I do not see how the two are linked. The misery inflicted on the cetaceans is no less now than it would be if there had not been an earthquake. Are we to sto...
The stray dogs that live on the streets of Bucharest and throughout the rest of Romania are at the center of a drama that is being played out by politicians, dog catchers, animal activists and the public. Unless action is taken soon, the end result will likely be a mass slaughter of t...
One thing to keep in mind if you’re going for yoga style is that foldover waistbands don’t pair well with long tops that go past the waistband. Why not? The shirt goes over two thick layers of yoga pant fabric, adding a third layer of fabric while hiding the fact that your pants are a...
In what will likely become a new national model for lowering solar fees, the Fair Permit Act flew through the legislature by surprisingly large majorities, passing the Colorado Senate on a 33-2 vote and through the House 64-1. The bipartisan legislation was sponsored by Representative...
Losses from deforestation top $36 billion in Indonesian Borneo (04/29/2011) Illegal forest conversion by mining and plantation companies in Indonesian Borneo has cost the state $36 billion according to a Forest Ministry official. Indonesian official: REDD+ forest conservation plan nee...
Kosovo's capital city, Pristina, has a dog problem. Throughout the city, roving packs of stray canines scour the streets, occasionally attacking humans, many of whom live in fear of the feral animals. Last year, after an infant was mauled to death by a group of dogs, residents demande...
Now that I’m spending more time in classrooms than the newsroom , I often face students displaying a peculiar kind of bifocal gaze divided between the front of the room and the laptop screen. So I know about the frustrations of teachers in trying to engage students in the real world e...
Their system, described in a paper published online in the journal Nature Materials on May 1, produces power with an efficiency roughly eight times higher than ever previously reported for a solar thermoelectric device — one that produces electricity from solar heat. It does so by gen...
First Drop in TV Ownership in 20 Years Nielsen reports that for the first time in 20 years, TV ownership has dropped from 98.9% to 96.7%. It doesn't look like a huge drop, but the 2.2% represents about 1.2 million households that don't own televisions. Possible Reasons For Fewer TVs T...
OAKLAND, CA — The Economy Map , a project by the former head of GreenBlue , gives businesses a way to see what impacts their industries and suppliers have on the environment. Created by Jason Pearson, the previous president and CEO of sustainable design nonprofit GreenBlue, the Econom...
Meanwhile the diesel version is predicted to be the best selling car in England this year. Having the distinction of being the only US automaker to pass on the bailout, Ford is moving quickly without the weight of that burden. The company credits “fuel-efficient new products, continue...
IBM recently purchased Tririga , a software company that provides energy management solutions for buildings. Which building IT company will be acquired next? Perhaps Optimum Energy, Control4, Daintree Networks or Ember. Because of the nature of the market, it’s hard to say. “There are...
