Recently there was a lot of news about new U.S. nuclear power standards and loan guarantees that seem to be a curve ball from the current administration, but the U.S. announced a new loan guarantee for a new solar thermal power facility.
It appears the American Investment and Recovery Act is still doing good and has [...]
The airline industry has made a lot of progress in trying to Go Green recently and even the U.S. Air Force is making a lot of progress with algae-based biofuels. The latest announcement comes from British Airways and their new biofuel facility.
British Airways has recently announced plans to develop a new form of waste-to-energy landfill [...]
There seems to be a wave of breakthroughs occurring within the solar power industry and the most recent announcement has come from scientists working on solar cell technology at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).
The latest solar cell from CalTech appears as if it will be setting the new standard in solar technology assuming the [...]
The conclusions of a 2007 study on global sea levels was recently retracted due to the authoring climate scientists’ belief that some of their underpinning assumptions were wrong.
The 2007 study was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and they have definitely come under a great deal a scrutiny lately given their recent [...]
The East Coast offshore wind farm known as the Cape Wind project has been in the news off and on over the past few years and it appears now that some regulators want to try to anticipate the next challenges instead of waiting for them.
The Cape Wind offshore wind farm has been delayed, stopped, pushed [...]
Sometimes it’s the smallest and easiest changes have the greatest impact as global sea shipping company Maersk discovered.
The Danish shipping company Maersk was able to reduce carbon emissions created by their ocean-going vessels by 30% by just slowing down.
That’s right, the shipping company was able to reduce their emissions by just slowing down and taking [...]
Norway had shocked many with the announcement of their ambitious emission reduction goals leading into Copenhagen, but recently Norwegian officials have finally released the outline to meet Norway’s ambitious reduction goals.
Prior to Copenhagen, Norway announced that they would reduce their carbon emissions by 30% by 2020. This was more ambitious than any other developed nation [...]
A new study from U.C. Berkley scientists suggest that climate change may be threatening the survival of the Redwoods along the coast of California.
The scientists have been researching the temperature readings from 114 weather stations along the west coast as far back as 110 years as well as area fog readings since 1951.
The U.C. Berkley [...]
It is unclear when the governments of the world will finally come together and tackle the climate issue on a united front, but when the governments seem to fail private sector world leaders step forward.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has decided to add another element to his philanthropic giving and research.
Bill Gates has decided to take [...]
With “experts” stating that the recession is over or that we are due for another drop, it is tough to say how our current economy is actually doing. But, the State of Arizona has stated the down economy is causing them to pull out of a regional cap-and-trade agreement set to begin in 2012.
The interesting [...]