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Aquaduct “Mobile Filtration Vehicle”

Happy New Year! Here's to a great start, Aquaduct, the "Mobile Filtration Vehicle" that helps transport as well as filter water. [gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/-U-mvfjyiao&rel=1"][/gv]

Posted on January 18th, 2008 | Tagged Activism, Energy, Engineer, Engineered, Environment, Hybrid, News, Renewable, Sustainability, Technology, Tips/Tools, weather | Discuss now »

Green Christmas Video

We all know how wasteful each of us are, especially here in the US, so let’s try and make this holiday season a Green one. Watch this video for some cool tips. [gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/2e1MGStdPtc&rel=1"][/gv]

Posted on November 25th, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Carbon, Conserve, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Sustainability, Tips/Tools | Discuss now »

Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". There is ...

Posted on October 12th, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Al Gore, Global Warming, IPCC, News, Nobel Prize, politics | Discuss now »

Global Warming: It’s All About Carbon

As part of the Climate Connection initiative by NPR and National Geographic, Robert Krulwich's created a five-part cartoon series that’s a really cool way to teach your kids the science of global warming. The videos are not embeddable, so you will have to view them on NPR. I watched ...

Posted on August 1st, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Air Pollution, Carbon, Comic, Ethanol, Global Warming, Internet, NPR, News, Oil, Sustainability, TV, Technology, Tips/Tools, greenhouse, politics, weather | 1 Comment »

NASA is run by a Monkey

Excerpt from a radio interview this morning, NASA administrator Michael Griffin answering questions about global warming. I will not dwell on it much, I'll let you be the judge. Steve: It has been mentioned that NASA is not spending as much money as it could to study climate change — global ...

Posted on May 31st, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Global Warming, Michael Griffin, NASA, News, greenhouse | Discuss now »

Reality Check: Carbon Calculator and Eco Footprint

I was speaking to a colleague who is into bio-diesel and he mentioned about a tool that calculate your net “personal carbon emissions”. So I dug into it this weekend and came up with the three sites that offer interesting (and of course useful) insight into how each one of ...

Posted on May 20th, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Al Gore, Alternative Fuel, Carbon, Conserve, EPA, Energy, Sustainability, Tips/Tools, greenhouse | Discuss now »

China to become the World’s Biggest Polluter

A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that discusses climate economics is objected by the Chinese delegation fearing repercussions that could possible derail their drive to increase manufacturing and jobs creation. The draft, suggests various solutions to mitigate climate change, such as capturing and burying emissions from ...

Posted on May 1st, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Air Pollution, Al Gore, Alternative Fuel, Bush, Carbon, China, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, IPCC, Kyoto, News, Nuclear, Renewable, Sustainability, weather | Discuss now »

Happy Earthday!

This year's pledge.

Posted on April 22nd, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Conserve, Sustainability | Discuss now »

Oil Depletion “Bad” for our Environment

Oil depletion has the capacity to worsen emissions and destroy the wealth needed to fight global warming, that is what David Strahan write in his latest book "The Last Oil Shock".  His argument below: It is mathematically impossible that peak oil will solve climate change. Although oil is the biggest single source of energy-related ...

Posted on March 31st, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Air Pollution, Alternative Fuel, Carbon, Conserve, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Hybrid, News, Nuclear, Oil, Sustainability, Technology, greenhouse | 2 Comments »

“Global Warming Is Not a Crisis.”

No, not me, I didn’t say that, but 3 well known people, 2 experts and 1,.. movie maker seem to think! This was the question at the core of a recent Oxford-style debate called Intelligence Squared U.S. Three proponents of the theory that “carbon dioxide causes global warming” faced off ...

Posted on March 26th, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Carbon, Environment, Global Cooling, Global Warming, NPR, News, Sustainability, weather | Discuss now »

Scientists Agree that Global Warming “Very Likely” Man-made

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), consisting of hundreds of scientist form around the world concluded that Global Warming is “Very Likely” due to human activities. Very Likely in IPCC terminology means greater than 90 percent probability. IPCC said the other 10 percent may or may not be due ...

Posted on February 1st, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Bush, Carbon, Global Warming, IPCC, News, politics, weather | 1 Comment »

China admits to Climate Failings

According to a new Chinese government report, China is failing to make progress on improving and protecting the environment. "Compared with social and economic modernization, China's ecological modernization lags far behind," said the research group's director, He Chuanqi. China in a global sense is still a lot better than the US, ...

Posted on January 28th, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Air Pollution, Carbon, China, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, News, Sustainability | 1 Comment »

Here’s An Alternative Viewpoint on Alternative Energy

As heard on Marketplace today: SCOTT JAGOW: In the State of the Union, President Bush said he wanted to mandate the use of certain gasoline alternatives like ethanol and force higher fuel economy standards for cars. I called up our economics correspondent Chris Farrell to get his thoughts on the Bush ...

Posted on January 25th, 2007 | Tagged Activism, Alternative Fuel, Conserve, Economics, Energy, Global Warming, News, Sustainability, politics | 2 Comments »

Environmental Defense vs.Duke Energy

Environmental Defense took Duke energies to the Supreme Court today on charges that the North Carolina power giant failed to comply with the Clean Air Act requirements to add pollution reduction mechanism when they upgraded their plants. For a change, the Bush administered EPA was on the side of Environment ...

Posted on November 2nd, 2006 | Tagged Activism, Air Pollution, Bush, Carbon, EPA, Energy, Environment, Environmental Defense, Global Warming, News, Supreme Court, Technology, greenhouse, politics | Discuss now »

Greenday + NRDC

Watch this!

Posted on October 30th, 2006 | Tagged Activism, Alternative Fuel, Bush, Carbon, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, NRDC, Oil, Sustainability, Technology, greenhouse, politics | Discuss now »

‘Dead Zones’ On the Rise: Economic Impact of Pollution

According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the number of ‘dead zones’ or low oxygenated areas in the world’s seas and oceans may now be as high as 200,  the new scientific estimates were released at an international marine pollution meeting this week in Beijing. The low levels of oxygen ...

Posted on October 19th, 2006 | Tagged Activism, Chesapeake Bay, EPA, Environment, News, UN, flush tax, politics | Discuss now »

Scientists Believe that Explosion May Not be Nuclear

According to an Associated Press release, the explosion may be resultant of a failed nuclear test or from a smaller explosion. The seismic data thus far are conflicting and no clear determination of the nature of the explosion is possible at this time. Read the rest of the story.

Posted on October 10th, 2006 | Tagged News, Nuclear, Sustainability, War, politics | Discuss now »

The Washington Stock Exchange

When there is money at stake, people tend to be more calculative and careful in critical decision making, this human psyche is collectively harnessed to predict future political outcomes by Washington Stock Exchange. The way it works is quite simple, anyone can sign up for free and receive W$1,000,000 Washington ...

Posted on October 5th, 2006 | Tagged Activism, Economics, Stocks, Technology, WSX, politics | Discuss now »

Why Dropping Oil Prices is Not Really Good?

The price of gasoline has dropped over 20 percent in the last 3 months, while some might consider this a good thing, in the long run; the only real beneficiary of this scenario is the oil company themselves. When a gallon of gas was at $3, viable alternatives was the buzz ...

Posted on September 26th, 2006 | Tagged Activism, Alternative Fuel, Conserve, Economics, Energy, Ethanol, Exxon, Money, News, Oil, Shell, Stocks, Sustainability, Technology | Discuss now »