Carbon

Boxer Avoids The Baucus Trap

Bill Scher | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green


Bill Scher

There's no way her bill will become law without further changes, but Boxer did exactly what needed to be done to get any bill passed.

Nuclear Renaissance? Not in the U.S.A.

Larry Coben | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green


Larry Coben

There is no nuclear renaissance -- at most a faint glimmer of hope for the end of a long nuclear dark age. Initial drafts of climate change and energy legislation do little to promote nuclear development.

Graham Waves To Teabaggers From Other Side Of Climate Rubicon

Bill Scher | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green


Bill Scher

Sen. Graham may be a conservative, but he is not a moron. He knew full well the right-wing lunacy that would be unleashed by his willingness to compromise to pass carbon cap legislation.

Google Maps Earth's Carbon Cycle

treehugger.com | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green


Google Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth's atmosphere....

Kennedy's Legacy: A Movement That Can Multitask

Melissa Bradley | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Melissa Bradley

What has stood out for me about Ted Kennedy was his ability to balance his vision with the most pragmatic of details, across the wide breadth of issues.

Meatless Monday: Woodstock Eating

Ellen Kanner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green


Ellen Kanner

We are stardust We are golden We are billion year-old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden Woodstock, Joni Mitchell What sounded...

Gore To Back Emissions Reduction

theage.com.au | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


A fully costed map for how Australia could reduce greenhouse gas emissions "at emergency speed" will be developed with the backing of former US vice-p...

Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Many people have a hard time accepting that one can emit CO2 from a power plant in Ohio and offset those emissions by capturing methane on a North Carolina hog farm.

Do We Have a Cap? Midwest Governors and Climate Leadership

Henry Henderson | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green


Henry Henderson

D.C. should take notice that the Midwest is opening the road to a reinvigorated economy and clean energy future.

Transforming the African Brand Through Sustainability

Richard Seireeni | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green


Richard Seireeni

An African brand driven by sustainability can establish new rules for participation in African growth, one that extends its rewards to those at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Carbon Cap-and-Trade

Ginna Kelly | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green


Ginna Kelly

A cap-and-trade program is an example of free market environmentalism. It harnesses a company's creative forces to find effective ways to reduce emissions.

Orange is Greener When It's Organic

Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green


Wendy Gordon

PepsiCo learned that it wasn't running the Tropicana factory or transporting juice containers, but the nitrogen fertilizers they used that were the primary carbon emissions culprit.

Combatting "CO-Tuneout"

James Glave | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green


James Glave

Do you know how much carbon that quick Google search just kicked up? Or the atmospheric price of that orange juice? Me neither. In fact, I don't care.

A Day Without a Carbon Footprint

Seth Bauer | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green


Seth Bauer

PepsiCo made a big, vitamin-C-filled p.r. splash this week when it released its calculations for the carbon footprint of a half-gallon of orange juice.

Why We're Already Beginning To Solve Global Warming

Carl Pope | Posted 01.23.2009 | Home

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Carl Pope

Washington, D.C. -- The world just got a wonderful winter solistice present: the Energy Information Agency (EIA), the official U.S. government scoreke...

Greening Hollywood: Grist.org's Russ Walker Weighs In On The Clean Coal Conundrum

Paige Donner | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Walker agreed to this interview while attending the Opportunity Green Conference held this past weekend on UCLA's campus. Media coordination provided by eConnectGroup.

President Obama's Climate Challenge

environment360 | Bill Mckibben | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green


And so our eight-year interlude from reality draws to a close, and the job of cleaning up begins. The trouble is, we're not just cleaning up after a f...

Life Cycle: Burn, Baby, Burn (The Eco Impact of Candles)

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green


Simran Sethi

Most candles are made from paraffin wax, which is derived from crude oil. Demand for these products plays into our reliance on fossil fuels.

A New Silicon Valley on the Oklahoma Prairie?

Al Eisele | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green


Al Eisele

It's here, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, that could be the home of one of the cutting edge technologies of the 21st century. It's called single-wall carbon nanotubes.

CON GAMES: Citizen McCain And The Carbon War

Michael Conniff | Posted 09.14.2008 | Green


Michael Conniff

Well, my friends, if John McCain calls his audience "my friends" one more time I will never say the words "missing in action" again. If he refers to "...

The Big Green Bus: Ex-Diesel Goes Veggie

Patrick Pfeiffer | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green


Patrick Pfeiffer

The recent ramping up in production of biodiesel and ethanol has brought forth some bad rap to the alternative fuels world. The negative side to increased biodiesel and ethanol production includes . . .

Reducing Emissions: Cap-and-Say What?

J.S. McDougall | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green


J.S. McDougall

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the average U.S. household will pay $1,161 a year in higher energy prices when carbon emissions are reduced 15 percent.

Green Jobs or Industrial Calamity? Dueling Economic Models in Carbon Politics

Richard Stuebi | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green


Richard Stuebi

Everyone wants to know the number of new jobs that will result from a move to an advanced energy economy. My pat answer is, "It's likely to be a very big number, but no one can possibly quantify it."

Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming

Dr. James Hansen | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green


Dr. James Hansen

Yesterday, I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after I first alerted the public that warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.

Join Me in National "Screw the Oil Companies and Terrorists" Week

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green


Paul Abrams

Current debates about energy independence are future-oriented, and will do nothing in the short term to ease economic woes. Let's use the internet to stop the bleeding: take up the following challenge.