I hope everyone has read Kees Van Der Leun's post about the rapidly falling cost of solar PV . I want to draw out one quick point that Kees leaves implicit. He argues that PV will be the cheapest source of electricity for most of the world some time around 2018, and for the rest of th...
Christiana Figueres asks young people on Twitter: what can you do to fight climate change? 17 October, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST Young people! The UN needs YOU. Are you concerned about climate change and eager to do your bit to make a difference? If so, I'd like to know what you're doing abo...
#OccupyWallStreet and the #Climate Movement ***BREAKING: EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: Prevent the forcible closure of Occupy Wall Street!*** PLEASE TAKE ACTION: 1) Call 311 and tell Bloomberg to support our right to assemble and to not interfere with #OWS. If you are calling from outside...
Why do developed nations still give tax breaks to the wealthiest few while children go hungry and working people and the unemployed see wages, benefits, and opportunities dwindle — and while infrastructure crumbles and access to good health care and education diminishes? Why are we ra...
Cross-posted from Cool Green Science . Recent global population growth estimates (10 billion by 2100 , anyone?) plus slowing annual increases in agricultural yields have a lot of analysts worried that many of those new people will suffer from chronic hunger -- and that much of the lan...
The brilliant streaks of blue and green that color the Great Lakes in this image are a contradiction. The blue in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron is sediment brought to the surface when strong winds churned the lakes. The green in Lake Erie and in Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay is algae, which...
to consume all the Godiva they can before climate change drinks their milkshake. After that, global warming will cause production to dwindle in current cocoa-producing regions, like Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, according to a new study by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture....
In a bizarre turn of events usually seen in a John le Carré novel, the executive director of Greenpeace UK has been refused entry into Indonesia. Arriving at Jakarta's international airport earlier today, John Sauven was blocked from entering the country by immigration officials and i...
While tweets are pure language, photos break down the language barrier, and cameras are very much in evidence at Zuccotti Park (by the way, “park” is something of a misnomer; Zuccotti Park is a, small, narrow fully paved plaza wedged between tall office buildings, punctuated by raised...
A hay field in South Dakota. Photo: Lisa M. Hamilton Dusk in western South Dakota. A half-hour ago, at sunset, the world here made its last pulse for the day: Birds hurried between fence posts, mosquitoes emerged from the shadows and feasted furiously, the sweet clover turned iridesce...
At the GreenBiz Innovation Forum this week, we've been talking repeatedly about how to scale innovation -- can a big company be agile, resilient and innovative in the same way that a smaller company can? One relatively small company that took part in the Forum is about to get a big ch...
Mapping New York's trees. Photo: Sarah Goodyear Philip Silva is standing on a sidewalk in Queens, quite literally hugging a tree. It's an enormous London planetree, more than five feet around, shading the sidewalk in front of a modest row house that serves as both tutoring center and ...
Jewelry stand in Bitter Springs. Photo: Jetsonorama The original inhabitants of the land that is now the Navajo Nation knew something about writing on walls. Spend any amount of time kicking around this canyon country and you'll find symbols and images painted and etched into the ston...
Revisiting Population Growth: The Impact of Ecological Limits Demographers are predicting that world population will climb to 10 billion later this century. But with the planet heating up and growing numbers of people putting increasing pressure on water and food supplies and on life-...
“If human beings were to disappear tomorrow, the world would go on with little change,” the biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote. But if invertebrates were to vanish, he said, “I doubt that the human species could last more than a few months.” Pedro Cardoso The deserta wolf-spider of Port...
In hyping the Solyndra faux scandal , Republicans have gone after the loan-guarantee program with guns blazing. It is, they charge, an example of big government trying to "pick winners." And by golly they just can't support big government picking winners! Except, uh, turns out they ca...
State Energy Efficiency Scorecard . The Scorecard ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their policies and programs that encourage the efficient use of energy in buildings, transportation and industry. For information on how to join the live press event next week, see th...
A Certification Program for Net Zero Energy Projects Even though the field is already crowded, it's time to make room for a new green-building label Read More Coming Up: Passive House Boston’s Fall 2011 Symposium Set for October 15, the event will cover case studies, public policy, re...
These may be uncertain times for renewable energy, with the collapse of Solyndra and a persistently low price for natural gas, a competitor, but the talk is upbeat at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual offshore wind conference , in Baltimore. Deepwater Wind A transmission s...
The learning curve is still turning and winding for Nike, but the company has made progress. During last year’s World Cup in South Africa, Nike made waves among football players and fans for its jerseys made out of recycled plastic bottles. Within its industry, Nike has led with effor...
Why have governments spent trillions of dollars in taxpayers' money to bail out financial institutions, many of which fought any notion of government regulation or social assistance, while doing nothing for people who had life savings wiped out or lost homes through foreclosure? And w...
Thank godessa. Image: Dr. Pepper Snapple Group The internet is fizzing over a new diet soda marketed strictly to men from, of all companies, Dr. Pepper. In a wildly misguided effort to get Bro Six-Pack to start calorie-counting, they've deployed an array of Axe-Deodorant-style "viral"...
Via Verde (“Green Way” in Spanish) is a new mixed-income, mixed-use development nearing completion in a once-severely disinvested area of the South Bronx. It will provide affordable housing, but it is like no other affordable housing development you have seen. It is much, much better....
To complicate matters, the price of electricity from the grid varies widely between areas. For example, in the US prices range from high-cost jurisdictions such as Hawaii and California to lower-cost jurisdictions such as Wyoming and Idaho. In a sunny island market such as Hawaii — wi...
Here's what wind power looked like in 1951 The EPA doesn’t regulate farm dust, it regulates air pollution fox news The top 10 Fox News lies about the EPA by Jess Zimmerman 13 Oct 2011 1:22 PM Media Matters has compiled a list of the top 10 falsehoods Fox News has spread about the EPA ...
In addition to my Klout score, I’m also identified by specific influential topics — topics that I tend to interact with people about on my social media sites. Klout finds that I’m influential about recipes , food, ecosystem, New Jersey, vegetables, wine, blogging and a few other topic...
may sound like an enviable job, but not so at this Gucci location. Besides describing the brand as a “flamboyant gown” that “hides a lot of lice,” the former workers also claim a list of harsh and inappropriate rules—a whopping 100 in all—including having to ask permission before drin...
The November/December issue of VegNews just shipped this morning – and the magazine was kind enough to pull back the curtain on a few winners for Ecorazzi readers. If you’re not a subscriber (or simply impatient), you can download the $6 digital version of the awards issue here . This...
The toll is estimated on the basis of field data from BirdLife’s ongoing field monitoring of trapping activity with mist nets and limesticks, part of a systematic surveillance programme. This latest estimate – 866,905 birds- represents the number of birds killed between Thursday 1st S...
The Mabira rainforest in Uganda is once again being threatened as the Ugandan government has revived its plan to deforest thousands of acres in order to grow sugarcane. This plan was first developed in 2007 but it was eventually defeated as protests and pressure from the international...
