developing countries

A new report from global experts finds that developing countries can leapfrog from ozone-depleting HCFCs and CFCs to natural refrigerants (CO2, ammonia, hydrocarbons etc.) in industrial refrigeration and supermarkets. This would help emerging economies and would save the planet high global warming gases.

How can individuals and small businesses ensure that the money they spend offsetting their carbon really reaches the people who need it most? Mercy Corps has an answer.

Currently many carbon offset projects are often too arduous or expensive to reach small communities who are desperately in need in developing countries. As a result, those communities remain neglected without a potentially profitable and environmentally friendly project opportunity.

Ten stories about the varying states of recycling, from promising and valuable to dangerous exploitation.  E-waste, plastics, cell phones, "free electronics recycling", how to recycle plastic (from the EPA), and more.

More than 5,000 trees will be planted with Eco-Libris to balance out the Swedish edition of the latest book from the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 'Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism', which is now being published in Swedish by BookHouse Publishing.

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC);  testifies before the House Select Committee on EnergyIndependence and Global Warming on the impact of climate change on the least privilaged.

James Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality, describes how success in Bali climate change negotiations came down to the placement of punctuation.