GoodLifeBottles - 728x90

oil

Mothers Against Fracking

May 10, 2012

Fracking sounds like such a dirty word, and it is.  I don’t want my kids using it.  Even though it is not a curse word, it is one of the dirtiest words I know literally! What is fracking?  It’s not the latest teenage slang word; it describes a mining process that is polluting our earth [...]

Mothers Against Fracking is a post from: Eco Child's Play

Read the full article →

Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate

January 19, 2012

We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion in 2010.
Related posts:

  1. Bayer Invests Over a Billion in Climate Change
  2. Congratulations, ExxonMobil! You’ve Set Another Profits Record: $14.8 Billion
  3. Minnesota Climate Advisors Make Recommendations
Read the full article →

U.S. Carbon Emission Down 7 Percent in Four Years, Even Bigger Drops Coming

November 4, 2011

By Lester R. Brown Between 2007 and 2011, carbon emissions from coal use in the United States dropped 10 percent. During the same period, emissions from oil use dropped 11 percent. In contrast, carbon emissions from natural gas use increased by 6 percent. The net effect of these trends was that U.S. carbon emissions dropped [...]

Related posts:

  1. More Evidence of the Importance of Forests: They’re Even Bigger Carbon Sinks than Thought
  2. Zero-Emission Travel
  3. 18 Percent…
Read the full article →

Most Popular Articles of October: Gross Seat Savers, Sharks Invading a Golf Course, and More (Slideshow)

October 31, 2011

Image: TreeHugger

One of the downsides of public transportation is that you can’t always expect a free seat, and you can’t save a place for yourself or a friend. But Jaymi showed us a novel solution — fake spilled ice cream cups and coffee to keep p…

Read the full article →

The Week in Pictures: Cloud Travel, a Vertical Forest in Milan, and More (Slideshow)

October 21, 2011

Image: TreeHugger

We talk a lot about low-impact transportation on TreeHugger, from bikes to electric cars to high speed rail. But this is definitely the first time we’ve talked about traveling on a floating cloud.

We also have a building in Milan t…

Read the full article →

The Week in Animals News: Mass Animal Escape, Sweaters for Penguins, and More (Slideshow)

October 21, 2011

Image: TreeHugger

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

We also have a project dedicated to knitting sweaters for…

Read the full article →

To Fight Oil Spills, An Open-Source Swarm of Robotic Sailboats (Video)

October 20, 2011

Ask anyone who lives in the Gulf or the Niger Delta: oil spills are very nasty, and they don’t clean themselves up. Chemical dispersants can make spills worse. And deploying hundreds of people in boats to run the clean-up presents a host of health ha…

Read the full article →

To Fight Oil Spills, An Open-Source Swarm of Robotic Sailboats (Video)

October 20, 2011

Ask anyone who lives in the Gulf or the Niger Delta: oil spills are very nasty, and they don’t clean themselves up. Chemical dispersants can make spills worse. And deploying hundreds of people in boats to run the clean-up presents a host of health ha…

Read the full article →

After Helping Cause Climate Change, Big Oil Now Set to Profit from Melting Arctic

October 18, 2011

Photo credit: USGS

Oil companies have done much to contribute to climate change. Of course, they extract, distribute, and sell a product that, when burned, emits heat-trapping greenhouse gases. But they also have used part of their profits to engage …

Read the full article →

Robert Redford to Obama: "Say No" to Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline (Video)

October 18, 2011

And here’s why Robert Redford still tops the nation’s roster of celebrity environmental advocates … In this slick video op-ed for the New York Times, he eloquently and winningly makes the top-to-bottom case for why the Keystone XL pipeline is a bad…

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries