Alarming news from Brazil this week: Marina Silva, the woman considered to be the guardian angel of the Amazon forest, walked out of the Lula government as she became tired of fighting a losing battle in a government that has sold its soul to ‘economic development’, which in this case I would call economic genocide. [...]

In this news release, the Department of Energy touts its assessment of different manufacturing facilities. And once you get pass the news release and look at all of the information that the DOE brings to bear in these assessments, you can see how simple saving millions of dollars can be. If you have never been in a [...]

A report from the U.S. Department of Energy has found that wind power is capable of becoming a major contributor to America’s electricity supply over the next three decades. The report, 20% Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy’s Contribution to U.S. Electricity Supply, looks closely at one scenario for reaching 20% wind energy by [...]

A group of Harvard students proposing a technology called Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) won one of the 16 awards in a competition to bring innovative lighting products to Africans without access to electricity. And do you know how much of the African continent goes without power? A staggering 74 per cent. The results of the Development [...]

I saw a blog that compared gold prices with oil prices. It was a Ron Paul related blog and so I did not dive too deeply in, but it did have one graph that showed the price of gold as compared to the price of oil. They were in lock step. It is not [...]

I always took with a strong pinch of salt the aviation industry’s claims that they are working to become environmentally friendly. In this profit-ridden, ruthless business, the point is to get more people flying. And thus increase carbon emissions. So it’s no surprise that a report that had been ’suppressed’ (an euphemism for censored), and which [...]

Jamie Lerner is something of a hero in green, sustainable urban planning. He’s become known for creating a strategic vision of cities for people, not for cars. As one of Brazil’s most popular mayors, Lerner was elected three times. He helped transform the southern city of Curitiba from a collection of shanty towns to a pleasant [...]

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Last week we blogged about the US presidential candidates’ stance on climate change, and concluded that Obama and Clinton were very similar, although we thought Clinton was somewhat more advanced because of her views on nuclear power, which she rejects unless improvements are made. However, No Impact Man has written a blog that got us thinking [...]

“I think in the future graduates, when they make a decision about whether to join that company or not, will be looking at what sort of a carbon footprint an organisation has.” (John Vines, CEO Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia) It is no surprise, considering the enormity of the task, that the science [...]