Climate Community Citizen of the Week - Archibald England
Congratulations to Archibald England this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week!
Archibald is a student at The University of Chicago and participated in our recent Chicago Challenge. In the Challenge students were asked to comment on the proposition: Agree or Disagree: The United States should end ALL fossil fuel subsidies. The entire question can be found at Citizen [...]
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Obama - Vetoes Coal State Democrats!
Well - not yet - but……….
As of the past week or so several Coal State members of Congress have introduced legislation that would prevent the EPA from moving forward with limits on emissions - which it currently has the legal right to do under The Clean Air Act.
According to Democratic Congressman from Virgina Rick Boucher [...]
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Hummer Bummer? Might be Smarter than Dumber!
It was just announced that the “inked” deal for GM to sell its Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, of China, has fallen through, most likely putting a final stake in the heart of the behemoth car brand.
Some are applauding this event, and others are bemoaning it, pointing out that by any [...]
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Citizen of the Week Special Contest
The Climate Community Citizen of the Week Awards program is featuring a special contest!
Based on the success of December’s Citizen of the Week contest with the Anderson School of Management, this week we’ll travel to the University of Chicago, where students in the joint undergraduate/graduate course in Environmental Economics (page 11) will have the opportunity to [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Green products, green energy
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Ed. note: This week’s Mulch is pint-sized and will run on Monday rather than Friday. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week.
Some people live off the grid, eat local food, and have an energy footprint so minuscule that even the canniest hunter couldn’t track them down. But the [...]
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Weekly Mulch: ‘Global Weirding’ and Climate Skeptics’ Slushy Logic
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Climate skeptics found plenty of reasons to dig out their dreary critiques this week, between the continuing controversy over erroneous reports from the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the record-breaking snowfall on the East Coast. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and his family built an igloo which Inhofe then [...]
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Hacking the Environment
In mid-November 2009 hackers accessed a significant amount of data from a world-renowned climate research institute, the University of East Anglia in England. When stolen emails were leaked it sent the climate change-denying community into a frenzy. The emails that contained open dialogue between climatologists using lab slang quickly became fodder for pundits to spin. [...]
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Hawaiian Green More than Just Palm Trees
On one parcel of a government-created energy laboratory, rows of mirrors shine white-hot in the sun, turning heat into energy. On another, brown water tanks harbor strands of algae that will be made into fuel. Nearby is a wind turbine whose blades spin parallel to the ground, nurtured by 42 green private-sector businesses on 877 [...]
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Weekly Mulch: What’s Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda?
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration’s answers to climate change. The 2011 budget, released this week, promised new loans for the construction of nuclear power plants, and on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House, and other departments detailed steps to encourage ethanol and clean [...]
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Green Office Building Wall…your kidding - right?
This has to take the cake…
An office building in Portland Or. that is planning to have an entire wall built as a vertical garden. We first heard about this when one of our friends sent us a recent NYT article - “In Portland, Growing Vertical”
Now the truth is - I am not a green wall [...]
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