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Amazing US wind speed visualization

Check out this real-time wind speed visualization for the US. It was developed by the brains behind IBM’s Many Eyes and Google’s “Big Picture” visualization lab. Not only does it show the tremendous potential of this renewable energy source, but watching it live is really, really hypnotic.

James Hansen’s alarming talk on the climate crisis, and how we can solve it

Watch James Hansen sound the alarm on climate change. “Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.”

China’s greenhouse gas emissions will exceed U.S. emissions by 50% in 2015

China’s greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to grow at an alarming rate. In 2010, emissions were 20% higher than the United States’ but by 2015, emissions could top 50% higher

Bill Clinton calls out climate deniers: “We look like a joke”

Former president Bill Clinton, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, called out climate deniers and their champions in the GOP. He said, “If you’re an American, the best thing you could do is to make it politically unacceptable to engage in denial. We look like a joke. You can’t win the nomination of one [...]

World Record Eggplant Curry Made to Protest Biotechnology Bill in India

As part of a public campaign against the upcoming Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill, the largest baigan ka bharta (eggplant curry) was made just a few days ago in Delhi. Chefs from Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi and the Indian Culinary Forum lead the cooking of about 342.5kgs (about 750lbs) of baingan ka bharta, [...]

Engineers Discover Alloy that Coverts Heat Directly into Electricity

How cool is this? A group of engineers at the University of Minnesota (yeah gophers!) has created a multiferroic alloy, Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10 to be exact, that “achieves multiferroism by undergoing a highly reversible phase transformation where one solid turns into another solid. During this phase transformation the alloy undergoes changes in its magnetic properties that are [...]

Complete Streets: About More than Just Bike Lanes

Check out this video from Streetfilms showing the many benefits of re-imagined city streets in New York City. It’s about more than just bike lanes.

New Laws Pose Potential Threat to Food Activists

In a recent New York Times article titled, “Animals, Cruelty and Videotape”, author Jennifer Mascia describes “Ag-gag” laws making it illegal to film inside slaughterhouses. So what, you might ask? Animal rights activists and those wanting to document the environmental and health effects of our modern agricultural system fear a nationwide trend. Some of the [...]

Infographic Shows Need for Better Bike Infrastructure in US

Check out this neat infographic about bicycle transportation in the United States that shows the states with the highest rate of bike mode use, the 10 cities with the largest share of bike use, and the ratio of female to male riders for each state and profiled city.

New Website Highlights Links Between Surfing and Environmental Issues

The Greener Blue is a new website focused on the intersection between surf culture and sustainability. “As advocates of green living, we want to provide the surf culture with a site that breaks down the different aspects of sustainability, so that brands and surfers can begin to make manageable, proactive lifestyle changes,” said the website [...]

Energy

Recap of Obama’s State of the Union Address: Environment and Energy Roundup

Posted by S. Neil Larsen on January 30, 2010 · 2 Comments

President Obama discussing clean energy during the state of the union. Source: whitehouse.gov Going into his first State of the Union address to Congress, I was curious to see if Obama... Read More

Category Energy · Tags China, high-speed rail, nuclear, Obama

Minnesota Plans to Implement Worlds First Carbon Tariff

Posted by S. Neil Larsen on January 7, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has authorized a measure that would add a fee of between $4 and $34 per ton of carbon dioxide to electricity generated from coal-fired power... Read More

Category Energy · Tags carbon tariff, coal, wind

UNFCCC/CDM Video Contest Results

Posted by Scott MacKenzie on December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Editors Note: these are not the results of the Project Groundswell Photo Contest – there is still time to vote for your favorite photo! The UNFCCC/CDM International Photo and... Read More

Category Climate Change, Energy, Sustainable Development, Video · Tags climate change

Wind Power Accelerating in China

Posted by Scott MacKenzie on December 14, 2009 · 1 Comment

China takes the lead in wind energy development from ClimateWorks on Vimeo. In the past three years, China has emerged as a world leader in the development of renewable energy as a... Read More

Category Energy, Video · Tags China, wind

10 New Nukes Announced in the UK

Posted by S. Neil Larsen on November 13, 2009 · 2 Comments

Earlier this week, the UK government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change announced plans to build 10 new nuclear power stations in an effort to both meet future electricity... Read More

Category Energy · Tags nuclear, UK

Good News from China

Posted by Scott MacKenzie on October 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

Big news from the International Energy Agency (IEA) today. As the New York Times reported in their Global Edition, the IEA released a report today that offers a silver lining to the... Read More

Category Climate Change, Energy, Featured · Tags carbon dioxide, China, renewable energy

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