As a follow up to the 2-part series from NPR (covered here recently on 2nd Green Revolution) comes this post about various countries’ climate policy. With the end of the United Nations’ most recent conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa, NPR had a valuable synopsis of what many of the largest emitters of [...]
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NPR 2-Part Series on California Cap and Trade Legislation
December 12th, 2011 
Eric Wilson Media coverage of COP17, the latest United Nations climate conference in Durban, South Africa that wrapped up on Friday, was sparse in the United States. With no national legislation in this country to address limits on greenhouse emissions, the state of California has taken some steps ahead of the federal government. Last week, NPR aired [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Policy 
Tags: California, Cap and Trade, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, United Nations 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Winter Tips
December 9th, 2011 Eric Wilson A few years ago we had a Five Friday Facts – Christmas Edition and a post on real vs. fake holiday symbols. Today’s Five Friday Facts are less holiday centric, but they all come from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Winter Tips. Approximately 33 million live Christmas trees are sold in North America every year. [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Carbon Dioxide, EPA, Water Conservation No Comments »U.S. Navy Makes Largest Government Purchase of Biofuels
December 6th, 2011 Eric Wilson According to a press release from the Department of Defense, the United States Navy recently agreed to purchase 450,000 gallons of domestically produced biofuel. Solazyme (written up here recently) and Dynamic Fuels LLC were jointly awarded the $12 million contract. One of the unique aspects of the blend is that Solazyme’s biofuel is algae-based, while [...]
Despite Sluggish Economy, Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record High
December 5th, 2011 Eric Wilson The New York Times is reporting that the worldwide carbon dioxide emissions “from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery.” This report follows news from earlier this year about the increase in US based emissions, which [...]
Five Friday Facts: A History of Water
December 2nd, 2011 Eric Wilson The following facts come from Elizabeth Royte’s history of water in Bottlemania. These facts focus on the history of human water use. The Egyptians, Persians, and Chinese figured out how to dig deep wells as early as 2500 BCE. Sophisticated water-storage systems were built in the Mesa Verde region of the American Southwest and in [...]
December 2011 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
December 1st, 2011 Eric Wilson As often happens around the end of the year, the number of conferences seems to dwindle. However, given our newest writer’s interest in food security and a recent guest post on corporate social responsibility, there are a few key events listed below that pertain to recent stories on 2nd Green Revolution. In addition, new events [...]
Posted in Conferences, Eric Wilson, Japan, Policy, Renewable Energy Tags: Calendar, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Desalination, Food, Washington DC, Water No Comments »Solazyme: Generating Renewable Oil
November 28th, 2011 Eric Wilson San Francisco based Solazyme may have the answer to the future of fuel. Many of the companies working to generate oil from algae or other photosynthetic organisms have huge inputs of water or take up vast tracts of land. As mentioned in a post last month, the University of Texas is placing a large bet [...]
