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Wind Power Facts: Emissions Through the Lifecycle

January 9, 2012

A recent scholarly paper decided to tackle the problem of the emissions of wind power, wishing to quantify the actual emissions so as to make accurate comparisons between wind power and other sources of electrical power generations.
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Jerry Brown Cuts School Bus Funding: Bad for Education, Bad for the Environment

December 18, 2011

  If you live in California and your children ride a school bus, Governor Jerry Brown took away state funding for such transportation this week in his “trigger” budget cuts.  As an educator, I recognize the particular challenge already facing financially strapped California schools to try and continue such services to children out of their [...]

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The Economics of Pollution: How is Government Policy to Reduce Carbon Emissions Actually Created? [Infographic]

October 18, 2011

You no longer need to ask an economist! Read this beginner’s guide to environmental economics.

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Gernot Wagner on The Futility of Going Green and the Economics of What Really Matters (Podcast)

October 13, 2011

If bringing your canvas bags to the grocery store, carpooling, and forgoing double cheeseburgers makes you feel good about yourself, terrific. But don’t expect the planet to notice. What the world needs, says Environmental Defense Fund economist Gerno…

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Amazon Drought Released 1.8 Billion Tons of CO2 in 2010

October 9, 2011

Photo: Stephen Messenger

Last year, the Amazon rainforest experienced the worst drought on record, reducing normally flowing rivers to sun-baked stretches of dried mud and pushing the fragile ecosystem to the brink. And even more troubling than the c…

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Ask Pablo: Paper or Plastic? Spending Cash vs Credit Cards

October 4, 2011

Image credit: Andres Rueda, used under Creative Commons license.

Dear Pablo: Is it more sustainable to use cash or credit cards to pay for transactions?

The correlation between consumerism and environmental impact goes without saying but aside from …

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Ask Pablo: Will iPads in the Cockpit Really Lower Airlines’ Paper Use?

September 19, 2011

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Dear Pablo: Two airlines have recently switched from paper flight records to iPads. Is this really an environmental improvement?

TreeHugger recently covered news of two airlines (

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Novacem Carbon-Eating Cement Is Material Connexion’s Material Of The Year

September 6, 2011

Cement production is responsible for as much as 5% the world’s annual production of CO2 and the world can’t get enough of the stuff. So when Sami first wrote about Novacem, a cement substitute made from magnesium silicate, it was exciting stuff. Coul…

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Offset Your Computer’s Emissions With the Click of a Mouse!

August 25, 2011

While you’re tapping away at your keyboard, did you realize how much you’re contributing to emissions? Find out how you can offset those emissions at the click of a butto

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World Resources Institute and Fortune 500 Companies Launch Sustainable Business Partnership

July 29, 2011

Image: Arnob Alam via flickr

The World Resources Institute has announced an initiative that it says will focus on business and finance models for sustainable, low-carbon economic growth in major markets like the U.S., China, Mexico, India and Brazil….

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