Earlier today, Apple took a bold stance on climate change by quitting the US Chamber of Commerce. The company joins PG&E, Nike, and Exelon in stepping down from the organization, which is working to stop the Waxman-Markey climate ...READ»
Instead of waiting around for Congress to approve the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, Obama has authorized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work toward the regulation of large industrial facilities. The announcement ...READ»
San Francisco mayor and California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom is attempting to jack up his eco-cred in a slightly controversial way by announcing the world's first airport carbon offset kiosk at San Francisco International ...READ»
Dubai's reign as a "symbol of crazed civic ambition" is over, but the United Arab Emirates is still planning to play host to Masdar City, the first large-scale carbon-neutral development in the world. Now the UAE has selected ...READ»
Scientists already know that climate change has an impact on the environment, but what about the supercomputers that are supposed to predict climate change? It turns out the U.K.'s most powerful supercomputer, which also happens to be ...READ»
As climate change accelerates, scientists keep coming up with increasingly fanciful schemes to fight it. Earlier this month we took a look at a plan to deploy ships that spray climate change-battling clouds, and now comes word from a ...READ»
Ambitious schemes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere abound, but the most practical might just be the simplest. Biochar--a technique that uses charcoal from plant waste to fertilize soil--has been used for centuries. And ...READ»
Tesco, a popular British supermarket chain, earlier this month started printing milk pint labels with information about the product's carbon footprint. It seems uncontroversial enough--Tesco already puts carbon labels on orange ...READ»
Complaints abound about unnecessary military spending in the United States, but at least the Navy is doing its part to cut down on the really ridiculous things, like spending $500 million each year on maintenance to make sure that ...READ»
Remember last week when we looked at a study showing that downloading music is more carbon efficient than buying CDs? It turns out the same thing holds true for downloading books on the Amazon Kindle (or other e-readers) versus buying ...READ»
