NORMAL — People with a passion for a clean energy future said it would save money, and energy. And it would create high-quality hands-on green jobs which can’t be outsourced overseas. About 100 people attended a citizen meeting on green economic recovery Monday evening at Schroeder Hall at Illinois State University. Source:Green solutions topic of [...]
It doesn’t matter to them that that cumulative installed solar capacity is forecast to grow 374% between now and 2015. It doesn’t matter to them that an Obama and Chu-led energy administration will mandate renewable portfolio standards (RPS) with a solar requirement while providing long-term guidance for tax incentives and credits. It doesn’t matter to [...]
With arctic sea ice melting like ice cubes in soda, scientists want to protect a region they say will someday be the sole remaining frozen bastion of a disappearing world. Spanning the northern Canadian archipelago and western Greenland, it would be the first area formally protected in response to climate change, and a last-ditch effort [...]
In the coastal tundra village of Kongiganak, some residents are keeping their lights on this winter by promising to sign over future tax refunds. But the persistent Bering Sea winds that drive up the cost of light and heat in impoverished Western Alaska are now bringing a promise of redemption as well. Source:State plan to [...]
The oceans have long buffered the effects of climate change by absorbing a substantial portion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. But this benefit has a catch: as the gas dissolves, it makes seawater more acidic. Now an international panel of marine scientists says this acidity is accelerating so fast it threatens the survival of [...]
A University of Rochester Medical Center study challenges common assumptions about the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), by showing that in some people, surprisingly high levels remain in the body even after fasting for as long as 24 hours. The finding suggests that BPA exposure may come from non-food sources, or that BPA is not rapidly [...]
Making bales with 30 percent of global crop residues – the stalks and such left after harvesting – and then sinking the bales into the deep ocean could reduce the build up of global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by up to 15 percent a year, according to just published calculations. Source:Some Of Earth's Climate [...]
The Independent (London), January 27, 2009 Tuesday – BRITAIN’S environmental movement was yesterday presented with its starkest choice yet: whether or not to support the world’s largest ever renewable energy project which will result in unprecedented ecological damage to one of our most important natural habitats. The giant £20bn Severn barrage, which would stretch 10 [...]
Continuing efforts to overturn more of the last administration’s policies,President Obama signed a presidential memorandum today requesting the EPA consider approving a waiver that will allow 14 states to set their own stricter automobile emissions and fuel efficiency standards. In 2007, then-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson denied California and Arizona, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, [...]
Fish could vanish from huge stretches of the ocean for tens of thousands of years unless we drastically reduce our carbon emissions. Gary Shaffer of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and his colleagues used computer models to analyse the long-term impact of global warming on the oceans, looking up to 100,000 years into the future. [...]
