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Why Climate Change is Divisive and Why It Should Not Be

Elizabeth Crenshaw on February 8, 2010
Climate change is frequently referred to as a hot-button issue. It’s a “platform” issue, with political parties taking definite stands on either side.  Both ...

Protect our home!

Gary Xu on November 27, 2009
Living in a safe world! Build a high energy efficiency home!

Global Days are dull, but this one is quite critical for our planet

Jonathan Buck on October 14, 2009
Yes, I know we have all had enough of those world days...but this year's theme for the 14th October is "Tackling climate change ...

Two percent of global carbon emissions come from the computer

Philippa Martin-King on August 28, 2009
That's what the Climate Group has calculated. They're also saying it's likely to increase by six percent in the next 10 years ...

Kenya to build Africa's largest wind farm

Alisdair Menzies on August 27, 2009
When it comes to talking about tackling climate change, some people come up with wonderfully optimistic and touchingly naive phrases such as 'technology (or science ...

A gigawatt of energy per day for next 25 years

Philippa Martin-King on August 26, 2009
The following  global warming article by Adam Werbach refers for its basic figures to another article written by Steve Kirsch. Both give a clear picture ...

MyEex.com, personal carbon exchange

Laurent Haug on July 15, 2009
Interesting proposition at myemissionsexchange.com , a marketplace for personnal emissions:  MyEmissionsExchange or MyEex (pronounced "my-eeks") is a personal carbon exchange that lets you earn money ...

John Thackara on what design can do to fight global warming

Laurent Haug on July 10, 2009
John Thackara, who is director of Doors of Perception, gives a provocative talk about the role of design in finding solutions to the ecological crisis ...

SwissClimateCredit - Executive Director

Felix Cardenas on July 6, 2009
SwissClimateCredit introduces a new currency that in a transparent and fun way enables people to offset their carbon emissions. In contrast to existing providers, Swiss ...

5 June 2009 is World Environment Day

Philippa Martin-King on June 5, 2009
On 5 June 2009, World Environment Day, UNHCR which is across the road from the IEC and watt watt , was showing some examples of solar ...

Electric industry emits half CO2 amount you imagine

Claudio Puliti on June 3, 2009
As well known, world’s electric power industry is poised in a quite difficult situation at the moment, cause the huge investments needs to renew ...

Blackout - one hour for climate in Switzerland

Pippa Rojo on March 26, 2009
The authorities have announced they will turn out all lights on public buildings on Saturday evening for one hour. Starting at 20:30 on 28 ...

Carbon Credit: Discrediting efforts

Ahmad Mukhtar on July 1, 2008
International market has started looking at carbon quota exchange with an ambition in order to "fine tune" the disciplines, however the other side of the ...

SMART 2020: Emissions down by 15 per cent with intelligent tech use

Toby Johnson on June 20, 2008
Transformation in the way people and businesses use technology could reduce annual man‐made global emissions by 15 per cent by 2020 and deliver energy ...

London: Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change

Toby Johnson on June 13, 2008
The second part of ITU's Symposia on ICTs and Climate Change takes place next week in London. You can follow the event live by ...

Le Dossier noir des Energies vertes

M. Denis Bloud on June 2, 2008
Malheureusement, l'éolien et le solaire ne sont pas la solution pour obtenir l'hydrogène! Car il faut pousser le raisonnement un peu plus ...

My Lab-Grown Hamburger

Kristen Lee on May 22, 2008
I have felt this guilt on many occasions. It's hard to play innocent when you understand the toll that carnivorous people (such as myself ...

Does using standby make me a carbon criminal?

Mark Frary on May 7, 2008
In these times of increased concern about global warming , the average person is now being forced to question everything they do in their daily lives ...

The Game Plan - a solution framework for the climate challenge.

Jose Vaz Pinto on May 7, 2008
It worths reading and reacting upon it ! Saul Griffith, Jim McBride et all, give us at Wattzon.org a framework that enables us to think ...

Global warming = you're on a diet, but have had a salad so it's ok to eat a cream bun!

Pippa Rojo on April 23, 2008
Governments ‘must act now’ to combat climate change Apr 22 2008 by Steve Dube, Western Mail The current approach to global warming was compared last ...