As some of you may know, U.K. billionaire Richard Branson started his own Green Non-Government Organization (NGO) called the Carbon War Room in Washington D.C.
Branson’s company the Virgin Group has invested in several green companies before such as biofuels, but, the billionaire still believes climate change is the biggest issues of our lifetime and develop [...]
It has been a few months since Copenhagen and many are upset that the global climate meeting was not what was expected. Some blame the leaders of the developed nations, but two of largest developed nations have finally announced a decision regarding Copenhagen.
China and India, two of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, have finally [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fortune 500 companies continue to listen to their consumers and even reach their environmental impact reduction goals early.
Global food company Kraft Foods has recently announced that the company has reached its reduced packaging materials goal 2 years early.
In 2005 Kraft Foods announced multiple initiatives that would be enacted to reduce the company’s environmental impact. One [...]