Tag: environment
group name: energyissues
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July 09, 2008 01:58 PM EDT --
Our carbon footprint is the direct effect our actions and lifestyle have on the environment in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. Co2 increases greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. . . .
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May 15, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
With BeGreen you can calculate the amount of carbon emissions you generate, take steps to reduce your emissions, then purchase BeGreen Carbon Offsets to offset all or a portion of your remaining . . .
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September 05, 2008 11:05 PM EDT --
Electric and Hybrid Cars: A History
By Curtis D. Anderson, Judy Anderson
199 pages - published by McFarland & Company (November 1, 2004)
This book describes and illustrates . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article in Nature . Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . .
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June 02, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
The U.S. Senate is debating a major environmental bill: The Climate Security Act. Unfortunately this bill is fatally flawed because it uses the convoluted, easily manipulated cap-and-trade process . . .
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September 15, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
Energy independence and green energy are often referred to as though they are the same thing. However this is far from the truth. True, if we have 100 percent green energy we have energy independence, . . .
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December 03, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Kyoto Treaty, intended to decrease global warming, is set to expire in 2012. Leaders from around the world are meeting in Bali , Indonesia to discuss what will replace it.
The Kyoto Treaty . . .
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June 17, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
Renewable energy is expanding voraciously and will do so even faster, according to experts at a Worldwatch Institute panel ( Tipping Point ). Wind power is already in the midst of an explosion, . . .
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November 10, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
Upon swearing the oath of office on January 20, Obama will immediately face three major crises: The economy; the multiple wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on terrorism; and the environment. Of the . . .
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August 07, 2008 03:35 PM EDT --
I’ve just finished reading James Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World, which includes a powerful analysis of our environmental dangers along with a visionary approach to solving them. Unlike . . .
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May 18, 2008 10:08 PM EDT --
With oil prices hitting another record, this time $128 a barrel, a voracious energy appetite worldwide, and a faltering economy, the demand is likely to grow to take any steps necessary to get extra energy, . . .
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August 13, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
Off-shore drilling is a stunt! The perceived need for off-shore drilling is a stunt designed to make it look as if McCain was making efforts to lower oil prices. Oil companies have until now rarely even . . .
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August 18, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
Unlike most environmentalists, I would support drilling for oil along America’s coastlines, as I’ve written before. However such drilling needs to be part of a comprehensive package including renewable . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:44 AM EST --
San Francisco Magazine - 2007
http://www.sanfran.com/home/view_story/1838/
Are we backing the right fix for global warming?
Jaimal Yogis is a San Francisco contributing writer. . . .
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February 09, 2008 02:42 PM EST --
Two great environmental champions have, for me, long smacked of hypocrisy. One is Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a great advocate of clean energy—until it comes to wind farms off the coast of his . . .
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March 12, 2008 08:13 PM EDT --
**I posted this three weeks ago but didn't post it to my "groups" because I didn't realize that the way to do so had changed. So I am re-posting.
With oil prices reaching . . .
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July 13, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
Due to galloping prices, instability in the Middle East, and environmental dangers, energy is a huge issue in the presidential campaign. So what are McCain and Obama's positions and how effective . . .
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July 30, 2007 10:37 AM EDT --
The best part of watching whales in their natural environment is that up close and personal encounter that no captive situation can provide. No bells, no whistles, no hoops and no fish rewards. . . .
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