Climate Change

I went to an interesting show a few weeks back at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a division of the Smithsonian Institution.  Design for a Living World has been mounted with the Nature Conservancy.  It’s an in-depth look at how a number of designers are putting sustainable materials to excellent use in products like wool […]

As you know, there has been a tremendous amount of activity on climate change and energy on The Hill over the past year.  The House of Representatives got going fast, even before the 111th Congress got underway.  A leading progressive, hardball-playing Congressman from Los Angeles, Henry Waxman, assumed the chairmanship of the critical Energy and […]

In the spirit of Step It Up 2007 and Earth Hour, 350.org reports that yesterday’s International Day of Climate Action brought people together in 181 countries, at over 5,200 events, for the “most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history.” See a great slide show plus videos and other reports here on this […]

The venerable Matt Wald at the “NY Times” had a revealing story yesterday:  Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Cost Is in Billions, Study Says.  He cites a study, commissioned by Congress, just out from the National Research Council.  Monetizing the value of human life cut short by air pollution – “small soot particles, which cause lung damage; […]

Someone in my class at Pace University in NYC a couple of years ago mentioned that she thought that earthquakes and other similar phenomenon were being influenced by climate change.  I pooh-poohed the idea, saying that climate change was responsible for a lot of ills – with more to come – but that it couldn’t […]

Last week I dropped in, along with bloggers in 155 countries across six continents, for Blog Action Day ’09: Climate Change.  CNN covered the story and the organizers report that 13,484 blogs reached 18,076,782 readers. A big part of the reason for this effort was to further enlighten folks around the world about this coming […]

I’ve been irremediably optimistic about renewables for some time.  Here are just a few more reasons why: Army to Build Out 500 MW of Solar in the Mojave – I recently pointed out where the world’s solar hotspots are.  No surprise to find the Mojave is among them.  So, as Reuters reports here, the US […]

There’s a great front-page article at the “NY Times” today about how three trillion cubic feet of methane leak into the air every year, much of it from oil and gas operations, and how some companies are attempting to stem the tide of leaks.  The article says “This amount has the warming power of emissions […]

Every day is action day on climate change for this blog, but the good folks at Change.org and The Alliance for Climate Protection are sponsoring an international event today, Blog Action Day, that hopes to unite the blogosphere to discuss, promote and move folks to action to help avert climate catastrophe.  (Clean and renewable energy, sane […]

Here’s a very good little video from SmartPlanet.com, a CBS Interactive website. For more, see my posts here on Carbon Markets.

I wrote in July on a number of comprehensive reports on how climate change is devastating many parts of the world and many different sectors.  (See Impacts.)  I also referenced a stunning “National Geographic Magazine” article on the drought in Australia. Well, the “Financial Times” has a story on drought right here in the US, […]

That’s what the overwhelming verdict is because of new extraction methods for accessing natural gas from shale.  I’ve written recently about the rising star of natural gas as a powerful tool in battling the climate crisis:  see  Natural Gas – to Cut GHG Emissions, Natural Gas in the Senate and The Gas Industry at the […]