Tag: greenhouse
group name: sustainability
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March 27, 2006 03:12 PM EST --
First, what is a carbon footprint? You can get 1,890,000 search results off Google for carbon footprint but that won't help us here. Wikipedia's entry rather dryly states:
Carbon footprint . . . more
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April 06, 2007 04:05 AM EDT --
The US Supreme Court ruled on April 2nd that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must limit greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide.
Four Bills are now under discussion in the Senate that . . . more
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June 15, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
The quickest and most effective way to deal with global warming is to tax greenhouse gas emissions and to spend the proceeds to encourage the use of renewable energy locally.
Tax puts a price on pollution . . . more
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June 26, 2007 02:43 AM EDT --
Global Warming - Tax or Standards?
As global warming becomes an increasingly urgent issue, there are many calls for action. Many call for standards to be set, to achieve a reduction in pollution. . . . more
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October 29, 2007 12:32 PM EDT --
The United Nations Environmental Programme has published a new report on the state of the global environment. The report, entitled Global Environment Outlook 4 , . . . more
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February 22, 2008 03:34 PM EST --
Does the environmental movement have the ability to create the political change needed to effectively stop or slow global warming?
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger have been known . . . more
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November 28, 2007 11:18 PM EST --
Venus was transformed from a haven for water to a fiery hell by an runaway greenhouse effect, concludes the European Space Agency (ESA), after studying data from the Venus Express, which has been orbiting . . . more
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December 20, 2007 10:29 PM EST --
If you think that climate change is all about partisan advantage, you missed the news today. Schwarzenegger is outraged by the fact that the Bush EPA has shot down his plan to combat climate change by . . . more
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November 12, 2007 07:19 PM EST --
Proponents of sustainable agriculture are beginning to argue that our habits of factory farming and skyrocketing international food trade are responsible for an increasing slice of global warming. . . . more
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May 08, 2008 07:55 PM EDT --
"...let me start first by telling you that America has got to change its habits. We've got to get off
oil."
President Bush made these remarks on March 5, 2008. He was speaking . . . more
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July 30, 2007 05:03 PM EDT --
Everyone knows about Ethanol, the renewable alternative to oil. Just a few years ago, Ethanol was primarily used kitchen oil and was only used by and well-known to environmentalists. The . . . more
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July 10, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
If you can't live without that HUGE SUV, here's a thought...
Ever since the military allowed the design of the hummer to be made public, people have gone crazy over its design. . . . more
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May 09, 2006 08:44 PM EDT --
It takes a special breed of researcher to eagerly fly to the center of the Arctic Ocean once a year, land in a 15-ton airplane on eight-foot-thick ice atop 14,000-foot-deep waters near . . . more
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February 16, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
For more than a year, a panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists looked at ways to improve life on Earth. They came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges , featured at the National Academy . . . more
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March 18, 2008 10:09 PM EDT --
Virtually all countries have ratified the Kyoto protocol. Yet, carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions are rising even faster than the worst-case estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . . . more
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May 15, 2008 03:46 AM EDT --
The US government has listed polar bears as a threatened species, as Arctic sea ice shows dramatic reductions. On Wednesday, US Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne referred to the Endangered Species Act . . . more
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December 11, 2006 12:15 PM EST --
Broadcast on Monday, December 11, 2006
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Nine years ago today in Kyoto, Japan, more than 150 countries committed to reduce green house gas emissions. One solution widely touted at . . . more
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May 18, 2008 12:39 AM EDT --
Some people say that world population is "exploding" and that "overpopulation should be tackled", supposedly to deal with both food shortages and global warming. OK, the pope has a . . . more
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January 15, 2008 02:35 AM EST --
Electric vehicles can cut greenhouse gas emissions in two ways. They are clean and efficient. By acting as storage capacity, they can also make the electric grid more efficient.
Electric cars are . . . more
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February 22, 2008 02:12 AM EST --
The image on the right shows the Anderson Mill, in Travis County, Texas, which was built in the 1850s as a corn mill. Since ancient times, waterwheels and wind mills have been used to grind grain to produce . . . more
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