Phineas Baxandall of the Huffington post wrote an interesting article on high speed rail in the US. The US government has recently set aside a one-time $8 billon high speed rail stimulus to be distributed to 31 states.
Baxandall argues that the government needs to continue investing in high speed rail to develop an efficient rail network [...]
Categories: Transportation Uncategorized
Tags: economic stimulus, economy, Emissions, environment, high speed rail, investment, Transportation
There’s been much lamenting across the media about the apparent failure of the Copenhagen Summit last month. Yet in reading today’s headlines, it really couldn’t have ended any other way.
Take for instance the following:
“European Manufacturers Rally Against 30% Reduction in GHG Emissions”
“FirstEnergy Asks to Exceed Mercury Limits in Wastewater Discharges”
And then there’s yesterday’s headline:
“Alaska senator moves to bar EPA rules [...]
Categories: Observations Tags: Climate Change, Copenhagen, Emissions, environment, environmentalists, EPA, GHG, greenhouse gas emissions, mercury, oil
With the eyes of the world on Copenhagen and the U.N. Climate Change Conference, it seems that organizers will be limiting who can get inside during the last most critical decision-making sessions.
While 45,000 people are registered, today and tomorrow only 7,000 civilian observers will be allowed entrance, with those numbers reduced to 1,000 on Thursday [...]
Categories: COP15 Tags: Carbon, Climate Change, co2, COP15, Copenhagen, Emissions, environmental, fossil fuels
Taking airline passenger flights to a new height, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will test their first passenger-filled flight on November 23rd, using a 50-50 mix of biofuel and regular fuel.
With the aviation industry’s recent commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this is a big step forward.
KLM plans to use biofuel made [...]
Speaker Jackeline Lopez of Mapache Rent A Car spoke of their “passionate reforestation” program.They work with mature forests, not with planting new forests, she said.
They also are involved with a new co-generation plant for waste. Prior to its opening, in 2007 saw the annual generation of 22 tons of waste. The impact of the new [...]
At yesterday’s international conference on Sustainable Tourism, Costa Rica’s Minister of Energy, the head of CANACEO and the head of the division of Forestry signed the Climate Conscious Travel Agreement.
This historic document outlines a unique carbon offset compensation program designed to to offset tourist-related CO2 flight emissions while reducing Costa Rica’s deforestation.
Air transporation represents 95 percent of all CO2 emissions in Costa [...]
Carbon Dioxide Emission is the burning of fossil fuels such as gas, oil, and coal. We burn these three things so much that the United States produce the second most pollution in this world.
CO2 and Power Plants Power Plants are the leading cause in CO2 emissions and is produced from the burning of coal. In [...]
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: cause, china, coal, electrical utility, Emissions, gas, oil, United States
Carbon Dioxide is known as a Greenhouse Gas and is the most important of the bunch. CO2 is produced from the burning of coal, gas, and oil, and also the burning of forests. Who is causing all of this mess? The U.S produces 5.2 metric tons of this gas, in high emission countries they only [...]
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: atmosphere, biggest polluter, Carbon Dioxide, Emissions, gas, metric tons, oil, U.S.
In today’s Bioneers conference, speaker Jim Garrison announced that Brazil has taken on the “80 in ‘20″ goals big time.
For those who don’t know, that’s reducing CO2 emissions by 80% by the year 2020.
Brazil’s media – one of the largest in the world – has is actively supporting the “2020″ movement. According to Garrison, Brazil’s [...]
Categories: Exciting New Developments Tags: carbon emissions, co2, deforestation, Emissions, environmental
The European Union has set some pretty tough environmental goals for businesses to achieve over the coming decade.
The news agency Reuters released a draft report from the European Commission stating that 15 million European buildings need to have energy-efficient renovations over the next decade to cut energy use.
Airlines are in this energy-saving boat too. Commercial airlines, private jet [...]
Categories: Observations Tags: Climate Change, Emissions, energy, energy efficient, environmental, global, greenhouse gas emissions
