December 2010
10 posts
U.S. Renewable Energy Policy: the Ghosts of Past,... →
To use an analogy from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, renewable energy in the United States will be confronted by the ghosts of past, present, and future. When the Republican Party took…
Tar Sands Not Most Destructive Project on Earth,... →
image: RSC TreeHugger has filled a great many virtual pages on the topic of Alberta tar sands, detailing time and time again the high environmental costs of extracting this so-called…
GM Cotton Fails - Insect Pests Thriving on Indian... →
photo: Beau/Creative Commons An article in the latest issue of the journal Current Science raises serious questions about the long-term viability of genetically-modified Bt…
Proposed Rhode Island Offshore Wind Farm Jumps To... →
photo: Deepwater Wind Rhode Island’s first offshore wind farm, and depending on construction speed perhaps the first in the United States, has more than doubled in proposed size….
FDA Underestimating Gulf Residents' Carcinogen... →
photo: Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana State University/Creative Commons Something to bring the horror of the Gulf oil spill back fresh to memory: The NRDC says…
Does a Clean Energy Revolution Need Rare Earths? →
Look Ma, No Rare Earths!
You’ve probably heard plenty about rare earths in the past few weeks and months. How many other commodities have earned their own New York Times …
Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short-Term... →
The blue areas in this image represent changes in elevation of the ice sheet from 2003-2006; the grey areas represent no change in elevation. Image: NASA Goddard Photo and Video/…
The Road from Cancun →
In the aftermath of last year’s climate policy debacle in Copenhagen, South Korea is pointing the way to a creative new approach to solving the world’s climate problem.
Two events that occurred…
Masters of Beef Advocacy Grads Take On Sustainable... →
photo: Alex Proimos/Creative Commons If you don’t subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the…
Carbon-Neutral Sail-Powered Cargo Ships Scheduled... →
image: B9 Energy What comes after fossil fuel powered containers shipping is a pet topic of mine to contemplate and a new story from CNN on what the folks at B9 Energy (primarily a…