Xinhua: U.S. Senate on Saturday approved the lifting of a quarter-century ban on offshore oil…
Month: September 2008
Cities can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Economic Times: A new study has determined that cities are being unfairly blamed for most…
United States: As emissions grow, so does opportunity
Editorial: In recent weeks, the crisis in the world’s financial markets has eclipsed concern over…
Wind power is blowing our way
Newsday: The winds of change may be returning to New York’s energy landscape. There were…
United Kingdom: The Queen tackles climate change by buying world’s biggest wind turbine off North East coast
Daily Mail: The Queen’s estate has purchased the world’s biggest wind turbine in a bid…
Greenland: Roar of melting glacier sounds
Agence France-Presse: Flying low over the vast expanse of Greenland’s Ilulissat glacier, one of the…
Canada: No-emissions house takes builder from zero to eco-hero
Edmonton Journal: Peter Amerongen was a self-described hippie building log houses in the 1970s when…
Kiribati: Climate change ‘sinking Pacific nation’
AAP: An immigrant from a tiny Pacific Ocean nation is appealing to the Australian government…
Al Gore calls for civil disobedience against new coal plants
Mongabay: Former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore, told the audience at the…
Africa awash in sunlight, but not solar energy
Agence France-Presse: From household solar panels to thermal generators big enough to power a town,…