February 8th, 2013 
Justin Manger 
This week we bring you some green facts related to Brazil, host of the World Cup next year and the Olympics in 2016. Brazil has 12% of the world’s amount of surface freshwater. 70% of the country is still covered with original vegetation and 30% of the world’s remaining tropical forests are located there. Around [...]
November 2nd, 2012 Eric Wilson A recent report produced by Corporate Knights, “a media, research and financial products company focused on quantifying and animating clean capitalism drivers for decision makers,” ranked the top G20 countries in terms of sustainability. Today’s Five Friday Facts will be a bit different. We’re including the rankings and a few associated facts: Germany, score: 80.42 [...]
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Tags: Brazil, Germany, Hydroelectricity 
No Comments » July 25th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to last month’s post “Global Investment in Renewables Hits All-Time High in 2011” comes the International Energy Agency’s projections for renewable energy over the next five years. According to the press release, “global power generation from hydropower, solar, wind, and other renewable sources is projected to increase by more than 40%” [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, News, Oceans, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Brazil, Concentrated Solar Power, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, IEA, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Wave Power, Wind Power No Comments » June 25th, 2012 Nick Grue Monday, June 18th marked the beginning of the Rio +20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Similar in scope to the landmark 1992 Earth Summit, this follow-up summit 20 years after the first is another attempt to increase sustainable practices and address world poverty. World leaders were set to begin arriving on Wednesday, June 20th [...]
Posted in Conferences, Economics, News, Sustainable Development Tags: Analysis, Brazil, Climate Change, Environment, Nick Grue, United Nations No Comments » June 1st, 2012 Eric Wilson As seems to happen often in the summer when schools let out, professional development for educators ramps up. June is a prime example as several education related summits populate this month’s calendar. A couple of the education specific conferences are included below. Both focus on higher education, while the event in Florida looks more at [...]
February 17th, 2012 Chris DeArmond At its outset in 2005, the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) was designed to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by factories, power plants, and other energy-intensive installations. At the beginning of this year, however, ETS began imposing the cap-and-trade system on all airlines with flights departing from or arriving at EU [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Featured Posts, Japan, News, President Obama, Transportation Tags: Brazil, Carbon Dioxide, Chris DeArmond, Congress No Comments » January 7th, 2012 Heather Perry Around the beginning of August, with our bus fully functional again, and about halfway through our adventure, I had ample time to process this whole biofuel phenomenon. As brought to my attention originally by my father, who would send me periodic articles on the topic, in addition to me personally offering explanations to curious people [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Featured Posts Tags: Bio-fuels, Biodiesel, Biomass, Brazil, Green Bus Series, Heather Perry, Lifecycle, United Nations No Comments » December 14th, 2011 Eric Wilson 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 [...]
June 3rd, 2011 Eric Wilson As of 2007 China generated 8 gigatons of carbon dioxide annually (which amounts to 6 tons/person). In addition, there were 21 cars per every 1,000 people. As a point of comparison for the previous fact, the United States produced 7 gigatons annually in 2007, with 451 cars per every 1,000 people. Canada generated 24 metric [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Brazil, Carbon Dioxide, Cars, Coal, Electricity Generation, Hydroelectricity, Wind Power No Comments » April 17th, 2011 Eric Wilson I recently read the following quotation, “the problem with history is that it repeats itself.” Although I cannot recall who said it, the point is that we need to learn from the past, not just repeat it. In a recent discussion with a co-worker, I started to think about the ebb and flow of environmental [...]
