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  • Re: What's the responsible way?

    The locals (I am an Albertan) are demanding that the issues be dealt with. The provincial government has set aside over a billion (Canadian) dollars to sequester CO2. The companies are required to find ways to reduce tailings ponds and water usage. The amount of water and energy consumption per barrel of oil has decreased a lot over the last 30 ...
    Posted to Green Room by aardvark77 on June 26, 2009

  • Air travel is hard to offset

    The problem with air travel is that it much more polluting than driving and you go much longer distances. Most estimates say air travel produces more than half a pounds of CO2 per mile per passenger. Of course this depends on a lot of factors such as how full the plane is, but the airline industry uses cheap, dirty fuels and they are incredibly ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by Intersection on December 23, 2008

  • GOP and cap and dividend policy

    Would the GOP support a cap-and-dividend energy policy? Jon Isham, energy and climate change expert and Professor of International Environmental Economics at Middlebury College in VT, hopes the Obama administration will: http://blog.islandpress.org/246/jon-isham-what-comes-after-yes-we-can
    Posted to Politics by IslandPress on November 18, 2008

  • Create a Climate Change Czar

    Grist says Obama should consider creating a ''climate change czar,'' and thinks Terry Tamminen, former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction author would fit the bill. More details at: www.islandpress.org
    Posted to Politics by IslandPress on November 6, 2008

  • Re: A Response from Andrew Revkin

    Beautifully stated! The science issues are: i) whether or not we have anthropogenic CO2 mediated global warming (settled in the affirmative); ii) what the magnitude and varied impacts of this warming will be (not settled). The complementary policy issue is what - if anything - should be done about this. As a layman, I'd be happy to restrict my ...
    Posted to The Spectator by Marcus61 on August 11, 2008

  • Hybrids, not as good a move as you think

    Before you go out and buy a hybrid you may want to look into turning your current vehicle into a hybrid. In recent years many advances have been made towards using hydrogen in conventional gas burning engines. While some ideas seem to have been made by crack pot hippies or your neighbor experimenting in his garage some ideas will actually work. ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by allanmain on July 8, 2008

  • Massive Groundwater Mercury Cleanup

    Is it five years from now when the first big wave of long-lasting CFL bulbs will hit American garbage cans? I understand that it's more mercury in the air today to generate electricity for incandescents than is used in the CFL bulbs today. But our children or grandchildren will curse us and pay billions to clean-up the groundwater polluted by ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by ScheduleC on February 13, 2008