Geoengineering ‘No Substitute’ for Climate Targets, UK Minister Warns
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffGeoengineering is a topic we often discuss here on Worldchanging. And while we encourage careful debate concerning this topic, we are cautiously skeptical of any ideas that support tinkering with the intricate systems and delicate balances ...
New Web Tool: The Solutions Are Waiting
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffClick to load video Worldchanging ally Michael Schmitz from Berlin sent this terrific video our way earlier this week. He and several friends produced the animation, which reviews (in a weirdly soothing way) the process of climate ...
Obama Administration Will Take Quick Action on Climate Change
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffImage via Wikipedia Obama's transition team is working to reassure the U.S. (and the world) that he will make good on his campaign promises to change the course of environmental policy. As covered here by Suzanne Goldenberg ...
Al Gore: Inaugurate Chnage
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffNot in so many words, but Al's right on the same page: The electrifying redemption of America’s revolutionary declaration that all human beings are born equal sets the stage for the renewal of United States leadership in ...
It’s Not about Polar Bears Anymore
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffWe are now dangerously close to a number of tipping points, thresholds beyond which scientists fear global warming could accelerate on its own and lead to runaway, catastrophic change. The atmosphere, the ocean and the ...
An Arctic Sea “Foaming” with Methane: What Now?
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThis, if confirmed, is really, really, really bad news: The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic ...
What You Need to Know About the Western Climate Initiative
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Eric de Place The Western Climate Initiative -- North America's biggest cap-and-trade system -- just released it's final proposal: here. This is historic stuff. The proposal leaves room for improvement -- I'll get to that in a minute -- but let's ...
To Tackle Global Warming, California Takes Aim at Sprawl
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffNew bill may represent the triumph of urban planning — or expose its shortcomings. California, long on the vanguard of battles over land use, is poised to pass legislation that would harmonize regional planning efforts with the ...
To Tackle Global Warming, California Takes Aim at Sprawl
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffNew bill may represent the triumph of urban planning — or expose its shortcomings. California, long on the vanguard of battles over land use, is poised to pass legislation that would harmonize regional planning efforts with the ...
Graphing the Diffenerce: U.S. Cap and Trade Proposals
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffHow federal US climate policies stack up. by Eric de Place Finally, it's all in one place. World Resources Institute just released a fabulous little summary that compares all the federal US cap and trade proposals. It's chock ...
How Europe Does It
Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffCap and Trade from the Continent by Eric de Place World Wildlife Fund has a helpful eight-page position statement that outlines the key features of the European Union's cap and trade program (called the Emissions Trading Scheme, or ...
Carbon Share
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Eric de Place A new spin on cap and dividend. Here's an intriguing idea from California: Carbon Share. It's basically a version of Cap and Dividend (aka Skytrust) but with a twist. Instead of auctioning carbon allowances ...
Two Views of Greenhouse Gases
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe same data yields two very different pictures of what's important. Behold: two very different ways of looking at U.S. climate-warming emissions, thanks to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (pdf presentation here). First, the geeky view, ...
Inside WCI: Delay
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffWhy wait and why not to. by Eric de Place This is the sixth in a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate ...
Can Cattle Save Us From Global Warming?
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffA small band of activists and scientists believe that farming done the right way can remove carbon from the atmosphere. by Jay Walljasper On an unseasonably warm and sunny winter morning—the kind that lulls you into thinking global ...
Inside WCI: Linking
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffHow different cap and trade programs can all get along. by Eric de Place This is the fourth in a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate Initiative ...
Yet Another Greenhouse Gas
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffShould we add one more gas to the Kyoto list? Time to head back into my pillow fort: Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) can be called the missing greenhouse gas: It is a synthetic chemical produced in industrial quantities; ...
U.S. Environmentalists Finally Have a Leader
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Ben Block and Christopher Flavin On Thursday, politician-turned-activist Al Gore called for the United States to rely 100 percent on zero-carbon sources of electricity by 2018. Regardless of the logistical practicality of the goal or of ...
Breaking the Climate Deadlock, the G8’s 50 by 50 Plan and Copenhagen
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe argument could be made that COP 15 -- the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen at the end of next year -- may well be the most important diplomatic meeting of the century. That's ...
Cowpooling and Super-Spikes, New Words Help Define Our World
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffTo keep apace with our quickly changing world, we are constantly looking for ways to describe how change is happening and how we feel about it. By creating new words, like tipping points, NIMBYs ...