Emissions

US Allies Demand Global Pollution Slashed By 2050

AP | TOM RAUM and JOSEPH COLEMAN | Posted 07.16.2008 | Home


TOYAKO, Japan — World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in ha...

Richard Branson: Airlines Should Pay Emissions Tax

AP | ELIANE ENGELER | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business


GENEVA — Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson told a forum on climate change Tuesday that aviation is a dirty business and that airlines should...

Britain's Greenest Car Is A Bike, But If You Have To Drive...

The Guardian | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green


The Ford Focus ECOnetic has been named WhatGreenCar's 2008 green car of the year, beating advanced technology from BMW and low emissions from Volkwage...

The Venus Syndrome (Part Two)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green


Patrick Takahashi

Humanity at large, and most of life, would cease to exist within a century, providing a short period to develop solutions for survival, the only rational one being to leave Planet Earth.

Getting Energy From Exhaust Pipes

ENN.com | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green


Researchers are working on a thermoelectric generator that converts the heat from car exhaust fumes into electricity. The module feeds the energy into...

Congressional Leasing List: Cars Congress Can and Can Not Drive

TreeHugger.com | Jeremy Elton Jacquot | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green


After a two-year long uphill battle, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) succeeded in getting his pet project, a fuel-efficient tweak of the federal vehicle-l...