greenhouse gas

Lester Brown, Author of Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, discusses the need for the United States to control its greenhouse gas emissions in order to ensure the security of the worldwide food supply. Brown outlines how market forces and societal pressure can encourage those reductions.

What happens to the money spent on offsets, and how does it affect the environment now and in coming years?

Xerox has long been known for innovation and recently they released an online Flash-application-based Sustainability Calculator, which helps companies understand the savings they will achieve by reductions in the number of printers they have.

For too long Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson has used his position to weaken regulation meant to protect the environment. The latest abuse of his position was his denial of California's request to set greenhouse gas emissions standards for motor vehicles.

How can you find out if carbon offsets are really reducing greenhouse gas emissions? The Federal Trade Commission and other groups are working on solutions.

Victoria in Australia has created a wonderful tv commercial which represents greenhouse gases being produced by normal home appliances as black balloons. Very illustrating, and very frightening.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released today a final notice officially denying California's request for a Clean Air Act waiver to set greenhouse gas emissions standards for motor vehicles.

United Nations climate change summit held in Bali went past its deadline yesterday. American and European ministers tried to reach a deal on Washington’s opposition to mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

The process of turning coal into liquid (liquefaction by hydrogenation) actually produces nearly double the level of carbon dioxide emissions that conventional gasoline does, and it is considered by many environmentalists as a huge step backward for combating global warming. Other popular alternative fuels, such as corn ethanol, can also be more polluting. Whether corn ethanol is more or less polluting than gasoline will depend on how it the cord is grown, the study reports, and how the ethanol is produced.

Emissions of greenhouse gases will rise by 57 percent by 2030 compared to current levels, leading to a rise in Earth's surface temperature of at least three degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit), the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) discusses growing demand to address climate change the effects of that demand on the marketplace and questions congressional witnesses about fossil fuel use.

The Indonesian government is recruiting other developing nations in an attempt to pressure richer governments to provide incentives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Some see the government’s request for money as a type of environmental hostage taking, and many feel that Indonesia’s request smacks of hypocrisy in light of its own poor record.

Australia is the developed world's biggest greenhouse polluter, with average emissions of 26 tonnes of carbon dioxide a person, according to new United Nations report.

Conservation scientist and Australian of the Year Tim Flannery has revealed the contents of a crucial Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which will be released in November. He says the report shows that greenhouse gas levels are at levels far higher than has ever been publicly admitted before.

Cal Broomhead and Melissa Capria of the Energy & Climate Program discuss the rationale, aggressive plans, and activities for city-wide energy self-reliance and greenhouse gas reduction. Tools include energy efficiency in buildings, transit alternatives, alternative vehicle fuels, generating electricity with renewable energy, and solid waste reduction.