Virtual Carbon Footprint Map
| Mayor a little overdressed for cycling. Thorold Mayor Henry D’Angela raised a few eyebrows the other week by hopping on a bicycle in the name of good health with the spinoff effect of sparing the atmosphere greenhouse gasses. |
| Denvers Climate Plan In-Depth: Incentivize Energy Conservation On May 17, the Mayors Greenprint Advisory Council announced the release of Denver’s draft climate action plan. It offers a set of solutions to bring the city toward a 10 percent reduction in per capita greenhouse gas emissions from the 1990 rate by the year 2012, in conformity with the U.S. Mayors Climate Agreement.We [.] |
| Climate makes coastlines a credit risk. Indonesian banks are set to tighten debt lending, particularly for real estate and property in low-lying coastal areas, an official said recently, due to fears of sea-level rise triggered by climate change. |
| G8 ministers eye long-term climate goals. Environment ministers from the world’s top industrial powers called Monday for more effort to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but little headway was seen in setting more immediate goals. |
| Get a Degree in Renewable Energy This fall, Wisconsin’s Mid-State Technical College will be offering three new renewable energy degree programs. These will include biorefinery technology, renewable electricity technician and renewable thermal energy technician training. Ronald Zillmer, associate dean of MSTC’s technical and industrial division hopes the courses are the beginning of new trend in green energy education. “The college [.] |
| Virtual Carbon Footprint Map Scientists from the Vulcan Project at Purdue University have created an extraordinary piece of software that tracks the carbon emissions of the entire continental United States. This exciting virtual map has the potential of becoming an effective way to analyze and try to solve the climate change puzzle. The current data map only contains [.] |
| Eat less beef and help the planet, G8 is told. Experts gathering for the Group of Eight environment ministers meeting in the city known for its high-quality beef have a suggestion on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Eat less beef. |
| New Efficient Methanol Fuel Cell Methanol Fuel Cell Membrane MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, particularly in portable electronics.From MIT:The new material key to the work is also considerably less expensive than [.] |
| BC mayor quashes carbon-tax protest plan. A EUR |