Category Archives: Sustainability
Study: Ethanol May Add to Global Warming
By H. JOSEF HEBERT – 20 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land-use changes, researchers concluded … Continue reading
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The Dark Side of Electronics – Coltan, DRC Congo, and Technology
Demand for electronics containing coltan is driving genocide in the DRC Congo… “a mineral essential for the high tech-industry; coltan is found in every cell phone, computer, iPod, DVD player and jet engine“. “The commerce in these “blood” minerals, such … Continue reading
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“Environment Be Damned, Oil Prices Spark Wood Sales”
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — More American households, faced with an 83 percent increase in heating-oil prices over the past year, are turning to an alternative as old as the Stone Age: wood. While the typical wood stove emits as much … Continue reading
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Why Personally Reducing CO2 Emissions is Insignificant
From Architecture 2030 G L O B A L W A R M I N G Think You’re Making a Difference? Think Again. There are 151 new conventional coal-fired power plants in various stages of development in the US today. … Continue reading
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“Little Green Lies”
Read this very worthwhile article. “The sweet notion that making a company environmentally friendly can be not just cost-effective but profitable is going up in smoke. Meet the man wielding the torch”
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Schwarzenegger is a Good Evangelist for Green Technology, but…
Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger on “How Protecting Our Environment Will Create Economic Growth“. Perhaps the economy can create technology for lower CO2 emission energy that is cheap enough to allow growth, even though a lot of this is because of cheaper … Continue reading
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Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048
Study By Ecologists, Economists Predicts Collapse of World Ocean Ecology Nov. 3, 2006 (WebMD) The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That’s when the world’s oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. … Continue reading
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