As the U.S. federal government continues to drag its feet and gets stuck in partisan politics, state and local governments pick up the slack and keep the Green Initiative moving forward.
The latest climate and environmental policy to emerge from a state government in an increase in required renewable energy generation in the State of Colorado.
The [...]
A new study released last week in Science magazine reports that new areas of methane gas emission release has been discovered around the margins of the Arctic Ocean.
The new study was conducted by researchers from the University of Alaska that are trying to research the amount of methane gas emissions released from within the Arctic [...]
For awhile now our choices for electric vehicles has been very limited but that is all about to change very soon with 6 new electric cars being debuted.
Now, that doesn’t mean these are your only other 6 new all electric vehicle options, but they are the most recent cars that are still in concept form. [...]
Even though it seems as though Haiti has passed through many of our minds (especially now with Chile) there is still much work to be done. The biggest question is how to recycle the rubble in the capital city.
However, the Chinese symbol for “destruction” is also made with the similar strokes as “opportunity” and that [...]
Recycling is always better than just throwing away and when it comes to old rubber tires, recycling old tires is always the best option.
Until recently, there were only a few uses for old tires so the majority of all tires were just ground into smaller rubber pellets and placed in landfills. However, this process uses [...]
Very few people may ever think about the importance of the Great Lakes, but for a water system that holds 20% of the World’s freshwater it should be on everybody’s mind.
The Obama Administration is finally taking action on its campaign pledge of $5 billion to help preserve and restore the Great Lakes.
The Obama Administration has [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes of the best of intentions can potentially have severe and devastating, unintentional consequences. Brazil may have accidentally made this mistake with their ambitious biofuel production goals.
It is not that the increase in planting of biofuel crops to meet Brazil’s 2020 biofuel production goals are directly impacting the environment, but it is what these new farms will [...]