This is a great list of ideas for reducing your carbon footprint from the New York Times: Global climate: it’s complicated. Any long-term solution will require profound changes in how we generate energy. At the same time, there are everyday things that you can do to reduce your personal contribution to a warming planet. Here […]
A colleague of mine generously lent her Nissan Leaf for us to test drive for the week. We need to answer two questions before we head down the electric car route: Will the range be enough for daily driving in our two car household. Is it cleaner than a hybrid or small diesel. The answer […]
Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous. Read more: OFA.BO/gJsdFp — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 16, 2013 It’s going to take a lot more than tweets to get new policy on climate change. but there is hope. You probably read the guardian’s recent post that 97% of scientific papers on […]
“We are not saints like those Scandinavians — we were lapping up fossil fuels, buying bigger cars and homes, very American,†said Eamon Ryan, who was Ireland’s energy minister from 2007 to 2011. “We just set up a price signal that raised significant revenue and changed behavior. Now, we’re smashing through the environmental targets we […]
I have a new favorite blog… The failure of Drill Baby, Drill “U.S. oil production is on track to hit its highest level since 1993. What has that done to gas prices for consumers? Virtually nothing. Yet again, analysts are pointing out the obvious: even with massive increases in domestic oil drilling, the impact on […]
Maybe the RNC was just what Obama’s campaign needed… There were a number of “are you kidding me?!?!?” moments during the republican convention. In particular for me was when Romney made a sanctimonious and sarcastic joke about the oceans rising. Just goes to show you exactly how some Republicans feel about the environment. (or at […]
A 20-Year Low in U.S. Carbon Emissions – NYTimes.com “Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the United States from January through March were the lowest of any recorded for the first quarter of the year since 1992, the federal Energy Information Administration reports. The agency attributed the decline to a combination of three factors: a mild […]
Amazon.com
Apple
Hosted by Dreamhost
Mozilla.org
NetNewsWire
NPR