Growth in Wind Power Gets Boost From Change in Subsidies
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffLarge banks, including Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, are making major investments in wind farms because a change in federal renewable energy subsidies is providing investors returns of up to 15 percent, the Wall Street Journal reports. ...
Study Finds Rich U.S. Energy-Efficiency Potential
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffThe potential for energy-efficiency improvements throughout the U.S. economy is huge and entirely within reach if annual investments increase fivefold, according to a new McKinsey & Company report. The global consulting firm estimates that $520 billion ...
Is China Winning the Clean Energy Race?
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments Offby Anna Fahey The days when emissions levels and energy policies in China and India were held up as excuses by the rest of the world's economic leaders for doing nothing about climate and http://www.worldchanging.com/cgi-bin/mt.cgienergy seem to ...
Energy and Global Warming News for July 16th: British government puts clean energy in overdrive; solar power empowers Ethiopian village
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffLabour accelerates green energy revolution The government seized control of key levers in the energy sector today in an attempt to kickstart a stalling “green energy” revolution and head off the threats of global warming and a ...
Camping at Tällberg – Episode 5: Cold Water Cooking
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffJohn Elkington is leading a very lively discussion on aid and entrepreneurism. “Does aid work?” says a young Kenyan entrepreneur, whose name I missed (he is a late addition to the program). His answer is ...
Camping at Tällberg; Episode 4: Stop Talking, Start Planting
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffMorning again. Somehow folks crawled out of bed after dancing and drinking past midnight, and made their way to the big tent by 8:30 (it is full when I get there) to experience the climate ...
China Recruits Algae to Combat Climate Change
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments Offby Jonathan Watts The garish gunk coursing through a greenhouse filled with transparent pipes appears to belong on the set of a particularly slimy episode of Star Trek. Multiplying rapidly as it flows through tubes, stacked 14 ...
Camping at Tällberg – Episode 1
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments Offby Alan Atkisson Bo Ekman formally opens the 2009 Tällberg Forum in his traditional way — philosophically, and a bit theatrically. He asks us to just listen to the drip-drip-drip of a water drop, shown in ...
Camping at Tällberg – Episode 1
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments Offby Alan Atkisson Bo Ekman formally opens the 2009 Tällberg Forum in his traditional way — philosophically, and a bit theatrically. He asks us to just listen to the drip-drip-drip of a water drop, shown in ...
Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Team Releases Recommendations
Friday, May 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffBy Roger Valdez 44 recommendations to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world. Vancouver, BC’s Greenest City Action Team—which includes Sightline board member Gordon Price convened by Mayor Gregor Robertson last week revealed its “Urgent Quick Start ...
We Must Protect Communities Who Face Climate Change Displacement
Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffBy Robin Bronen 'Climigration' requires a new and unique institutional response based in human rights doctrine Waves pounding against the sandbagged seawall in Kivalina, Alaska. In 2006, a recently completed $2.5m sea barrier was partly destroyed. The community ...
We Must Protect Communities Who Face Climate Change Displacement
Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffBy Robin Bronen 'Climigration' requires a new and unique institutional response based in human rights doctrine Waves pounding against the sandbagged seawall in Kivalina, Alaska. In 2006, a recently completed $2.5m sea barrier was partly destroyed. The community ...
What Does Beauty Have to Do With Sustainability
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffToday on the Streetsblog Network, we step back and take a look at a philosophical question, courtesy of Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard.Can we make beauty a criterion for preservation? Photo by Sarah Goodyear. As we ...
Reader Report: The New American Heartland: Sustainability in Southwestern Desert Communities
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffBy William M. Brown The American Southwest confronts a rapidly changing identity. Symptoms of the current century's biggest challenges – skyrocketing population, climate change, ecosystems in peril, demands for a new energy infrastructure – are already glaringly ...
Water, Sun and Dung
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffBy Li Taige Environmental challenges make supplying the ever-growing population of Tibet with sufficient and sustainable electricity a logistical conundrum. Puntso’s yard is piled high with dung – specifically, wind-dried dung. The 68-year old is a herder in the ...
Commentary: Reconciling Poverty, Sustainability, and the Financial Crisis
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments Offby Christopher Flavin The following is adapted from a speech given by Worldwatch Institute President Christopher Flavin at a high-level United Nations event on September 25, 2008. I want to commend the UN Secretary-General for his decision to ...
Seeing the African Challenge in a Single Graph
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffOur allies at the Global Footprint Network and WWF have released their new report Africa: Ecological Footprint and Human Well-Being, on pathways towards sustainable development. It's a sharp piece of work, with explanations of the broader ...