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Photo via Guardian Most cap and trade schemes proposed by governments include provisions that allow polluting companies to buy carbon offsets –initiatives that pay for tree planting in South America or solar panel installation in India and so...
image: Carnegie Institution We’ve written about the phenomenon of outsourced carbon emissions a number of times, with the example of perhaps up to one third of China’s emissions coming from manufacturing goods destined for consumption abroad...
photo: Chor Ip via flickr. As any TreeHugger worth his or her epiphytes knows, preserving tropical rainforests is a major part of preventing the worst of climate change –deforestation itself causing nearly as many carbon emissions as the entire...
Image credit: ltshears /Flickr The government of Afghanistan may be focused on routing the Taliban insurgency but increasingly, the country has found ways to enact basic environmental protections as well. The growing list of protected endangered species...
photo: Chris via flickr. One more on the connection between whales and carbon sequestration : Scientists from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute have determined that 100 years of whaling has released the same amount of carbon as burning 50,000 square...
Obama administration and other lawmakers are still hoping to pass a law that puts a price on carbon emissions. But senators interviewed by Reuters are more pessimistic. Excerpt from: Key senators do not see climate bill in 2010 Read More →
Photo via InHouse I thought Bill Nye was awesome when I was a kid, and he’s still awesome now. Take this video clip, for example, in which the onetime (and always!) Science Guy keeps a cool head while explaining the science behind global warming...
Image grab: Youtube/Motor Trend The Best of an Old Tech vs. The Best of a New Tech The car nuts at Motor Trend got their hands on a Tesla Roadster Sport (0 to 60 MPH in 2.7 secs) and a Porsche Boxster Spyder (0 to 60 in 4.8 secs). What had to happen...
photo: D’Arcy Norman via flickr. Walmart today announced a major supply chain greenhouse gas reduction commitment of removing 20 million metric tons of emissions by 2015. Very good, but what does that actually mean for the company’s overall...
