Seattle Times: Your green car may get 40 miles per gallon, but how many miles…
Month: April 2009
Sole Technology skates toward a green future
LA Times: Pierre AndrĂ© Senizergues can make skateboards do anything. When he was in his…
United States: Expect more hearings, more permits, maybe a lawsuit, before new coal-fired power plant is built
Bay City Times: A proposed coal-fired power plant project at the Karn-Weadock complex in Hampton…
United Kingdom: Customers buy up traditional light bulbs before switch to low energy CFLs
Telegraph: Shopkeepers say customers are “panic-buying” armfuls of the 100 watt bulbs, which are becoming…
U.N. food agencies see “win-win” farmland deals
Reuters: Rich nations buying farmland in less developed countries to boost own food supplies should…
Aborigine, Inuit tradition can fight climate change
Reuters: Alaskan Inuits, Australian aborigines and Pygmies from Cameroon have a message for a warming…
Congress to pass energy bill this year: White House
Reuters: U.S. lawmakers will pass major energy legislation, possibly including measures to address climate change,…
Did lead cause global cooling?
New Scientist: Previous generations unwittingly found a way to cool the Earth, but it’s an…
Energy secretary: Islands could disappear
Associated Press: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is warning that if countries don’t do something…
Mysterious decline of small mammals in Bolivia may be linked to burning Amazon
Mongabay: During ten years surveying small mammal populations in Bolivia’s cerrado, Dr. Louise Emmons with…