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A Challenge to Magazine Publishers -- Especially Jon Meacham

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green


Dr. Susan Corso

If all the print publications in the U.S. alone were to eliminate inserts, how much would that reduce carbon emissions? Think of the deforestation it could prevent.

Fossil Fuels Had A Hand In Dinosaur Extinction

New Scientist | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green


Fossil fuels have a new crime to live down. A frenzy of hydrocarbon burning at the end of the Permian period may have led to the most devastating mass...

Cap And Trade: Get The Lowdown

Posted 11.06.2009 | Green


Recent surveys about public perceptions of climate change and knowledge of cap-and-trade in the United States show that a lot of people out there have...

France To Donate $1.5 Billion To Electric Car Tech

Yahoo! News | Simon Boehm | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green


France launched the "battle of the electric car" Thursday as it unveiled plans to invest 1.5 billion euros on infrastructure for the two million elect...

John Tierney: Carbon Capture Could Be A Cheaper, Neglected Solution To CO2 Levels?

nytimes.com | John Tierney | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green


Governments are doing practically nothing to study the removal of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, but this technology could be a much che...

Bad Acid Trip

David Helvarg | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green


David Helvarg

More than 40 years after Woodstock it's the ocean that's on a bad acid trip. It's been scraped raw, emptied out, overheated, poisoned and abused, not a good time to be ingesting dangerous chemicals.

IPCC Chair Says 350ppm Is the Number

Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green


Steve Kirsch

We have the technology to meet the goal. What we lack is the political will and we need that in spades to aggressively pursue all of the clean power technologies we have for efficiency and new power. We should be treating this like a war, but we clearly are not.

A Smiley Face (and Your Neighbors' Numbers) are Best Way to Save Energy

Graham Hill | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green


Graham Hill

Ever wondered if those little placards on your hotel room sink, exhorting you to use less water or fewer towels 'for the environment' actually work?

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...

Are Artificial Trees Better Than Real Ones?

treehugger.com | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green


Fake plants generally don't give off huge environmental benefits--especially when they're the plastic kind that just barely cheer up offices and waiti...

Dry Cleaning: Do It Less, Do It Greener

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green


Not only is dry cleaning expensive it's actually terrible for the environment. The main chemical used by dry cleaners is perchloroethylene, which the ...

CO2 Famine: Exxon-Paid Scientist Says Earth Is Short On Greenhouse Gases (VIDEO)

treehugger.com | Posted 03.30.2009 | Green


The Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee had an unusual guest recently: a man who says we are in a carbon dioxide famine. Treehugger's John...

One-Third of China's CO2 Emissions Made by the West

Alex Pasternack | Posted 02.25.2009 | Home


Alex Pasternack

In recent years, consumers in the US huffed over the dangers of Chinese-made goods to kids in the US. Now they and their governments might start thinking harder about what those goods are doing to kids in China.

Pro-Carbon Dioxide Commercial From 2006 Is Really Scary (VIDEO)

Videogum | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green


Videogum dug up this little gem -- a pro-CO2 video. Now, I'm not fundamentally against carbon dioxide. And I don't know anyone who is. And that's wha...

Rod Bremby: Moving Towards a Renewable Future, Despite Big Coal's Backlash

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green


Simran Sethi

Roderick Bremby, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, is a force of nature. He stood up to big coal interests in Kansas and, quite simply, said "no."

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.

Yes, We Can Regulate CO2!

Sarah Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green


Sarah Newman

Environmentalists are heralding Obama's decision to review the request by California and 13 other states to establish strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

New Cement Absorbs More CO2 Than Production Emits

guardian.co.uk | Alok Jha, Green Technology Correspondent | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green


Standard cement, also known as Portland cement, is made by heating limestone or clay to around 1,500C. The processing of the ingredients releases 0.8 ...

Obama Likely To Face Even Higher Global Temperatures

Climate Progress | Jeff Goodell | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green


The themes of James Hansen's recent talk at American Geophysical Union's fall meeting were not new to anyone who has heard him speak recently (or to r...

Climate In The Obama Age: An Interview With Andy Revkin

Treehugger | Jacob Gordon | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green


Hopes are high for an Obama-led climate strategy, but when it comes to true details there are still more questions than answers. Andrew C. Revkin has...

A Federal Cap-And-Trade System: More From The Summit

Paige Donner | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business


Paige Donner

What's interesting about the governor's climate conference is that you normally would think that international negotiations or solutions are all about Heads of State talking to each another.

Colorado Company Takes Algae-Based Fuel to the Next Level

Green Inc. | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 12.13.2008 | Green


A Colorado company will break ground early next year on an algae farm that is intended to produce thousands of gallons of substitutes for gasoline and...

The Auto Industry and the Obama Administration

Dave McCurdy | Posted 12.08.2008 | Business


Dave McCurdy

When it came to rescuing Wall Street, Washington didn't waste a minute. But now that autoworkers are suffering, Washington's put on the brakes.

Sarah Palin Enviro Hit List & Plastic Trees -- ZapRoot VIDEO >>

George Spyros | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green


George Spyros

Arizona tests artificial CO2 filtering trees. Sarah Palin loves oil. Find ways to get rid of your junk mail. • ZapRoot gives a breakdown of the ...