By Jonathan Bardelline Published June 02, 2011 Cities’ climate change-related projects often have a ripple effect on businesses, whether towns are putting more renewable energy in the electrical grid, expanding recycling systems or adding bicycle lanes. For those wanting to know how the biggest cities in the world are tackling climate change, a report from the C40 Cities…
By MIREYA NAVARRO Published: New York Times, May 31, 2011 A top New York State official filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Tuesday to force an assessment of the environmental risks posed by drilling for natural gas in the Delaware River Basin, arguing that a regulatory commission should not issue final rules governing the drilling…
According to the United Nations Report on Global Warming, the meat production industry is one of the “most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”. Currently 18% of carbon dioxide green house gas emissions is directly related to factory farming. The rapid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest…
This week, I had the opportunity to see a demonstration of Autodesk‘s new Eco Materials Adviser, a tool the company developed with Granta Design that is intended to help product designers make better decisions around material choices. Since the majority of a product’s lifecycle impacts are determined during the design phase, the tool has the potential to help…
Digital Journal Berlin – In the wake of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the German government has reversed its energy policy and will gradually wean itself from its nuclear energy program, shutting down its reactors by 2022. Germany, Europe’s largest economy and the world’s fourth largest, announced on Monday it will undertake a revolutionary new energy policy,…
As the need for renewable energy increases options on energy storage have needed tactics on expansion to better meet the future needs of society. Consequently, wind and solar have not being able to compete with conventional energy sources such as coal, oil, and nuclear with out government subsidies because of the variability and the costly…
SustainableBusiness.com News New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced he is pulling the state out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) at the end of the year. RGGI – the only cap-and-trade system in the US – has been under assault by fossil fuel interests since the midterm elections when Republicans gained more influence…
1. Look for opportunities to generate power efficiency Did you know that electronics in the home and office use energy even when powered down? To save energy check the power management features on devices used, make sure to unplug equipment at the end of the day, and using a power strips for efficiency. Remember…
Mayan’s predicted that bee populations would cease to exist as a first phase of the 2012 apocalyptic disasters to come. While the allocations may seem far-fetched for some, the peril of the honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder is still a very realistic threat. Colony Collapse Disorder could result in loses of up to 90 percent…
Tragedy struck Joplin Missouri this past Sunday as one of the largest single tornados in this half century ripped through the town of 49,000 people, leaving the area in complete devastation. April 27th 2011 tornado storm overcame the southern states striking the area with 135 tornadoes, taking the lives of 319 Americans. A month later victims of this the calamity are…