White Roofs

Climate Change, White Roofs, and Common Sense

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Steven Chu, Models, Geoengineering, Electricity, Temperatures, Energy Use, Climate Change, Climate Models, White Roofs, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Clouds, Global Warming, Climate, Green News
Bill Chameides

Of all the geoengineering ideas, the one often cited as the simplest, most obvious one, the one we should get started on right away is painting roofs white -- after all how can that not help? How indeed.

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Going Green by Going White

Dan Garodnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, White Roofs, Climate Change, New York City, New York, New York News
Dan Garodnick

In the fight against climate change, simple solutions can have the most immediate impact. As a growing number of New Yorkers are finding out, one of the simplest is white roofs.

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Green News Report -- February 16, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Asian Carp, Mass Transit, Factory Farms, White Roofs, Climategate, Coal, Organic, High Gas Prices, Railroads, Electric Cars, Katie Couric, Trains, Foreclosure, Heart Disease, Usda, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Bpa, Evan Bayh, Clean Energy Jobs, Factory Farming, Ipcc, Nanotechnology, Coal Industry, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Organic Dairy, High Speed Rail, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Evan Bayh Retirement, China, Green News Report, Green News, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Buh-bye, Evan Bayh; Supertrains for China, not so much for the U.S.; Freeways cause heart attacks...

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Should You Invest In A White Roof?

Mother Jones | Photo Essay by Phillip Toledano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, White Roofs, Green Living, Green Energy, Green News

The latest white-roofs study used computer simulations to figure out what might happen if every roof in every city of the world were white. The findin...

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Cool It and Warm It With a Chameleon Roof

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, White Roofs, Cool Roofs, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, California, Thermeleon, Green News
Bill Chameides

Reflective white roofs are good for keeping a home cool in summer, but what happens in winter? A temperature-sensitive tile -- black when temperatures are cold and white when temps are warm -- could offer a solution.

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Cool Roofs

Mother Nature Network | Marsha Walton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Reflective Paint, U.S. Department of Energy, Solar-Reflective Paint, White Roofs, Cool Roofs, Valspar Corp., Hyperseal, Green News

The U.S. Department of Energy is encouraging the use of reflective paint and "cool roofs" to increase the energy efficiency of homes and commercial bu...

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Is This the Most Important Meeting?

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climatechange, Steven Chu, High Albedo Roofing, Agriculture, Environment, White Roofs, Biochar, Terra-Preta, Global Warming, Energy, Green News
A. Siegel

As with looking toward better sanitation options in Finland, some potentially critical sessions proceed with too little media attention. Right now, Boulder, Colorado, is hosting one such meeting: North American Biochar 2009.

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When "Yes We Can!" Meets "No We Won't!"

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Mike Ross, Congress, Public Option, Republicans-Congress, Health Care Costs, Mortgage Servicers, George W. Bush, White Roofs, Democrats Congress, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Campaign Donations, Change, Tom Coburn, National-Coalition-on-Health-Care, Health Care Reform, New York Times, Banks, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

If the Democrats in Congress don't find a way to become co-advocates with the president on these important issues, their future political problems will be the least of it.

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Paint It White: Chu Calls For White Roofs, Roads To Fight Global Warming

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Chu, Science, White Roofs, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate ch...

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