The Athabasca oil sands (as known as tar sands) are the largest of its kind in the world. They produce oil, much of which is exported to the United States. In fact, the US imports more oil from Canada than any other country. Heated water from the Athabasca River is used to separate oil from [...]
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Five Friday Facts: Tar Sands
August 27th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts 
Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Oil Consumption, Peak Oil 
View CommentsAdd Another Superlative to China’s Growth: 10 Day Traffic Jams (Updated)
August 25th, 2010 Justin Manger Before I get to the meat of this post, I’ll add one more crazy stat that I furtively creeped this morning from the Express Newspaper the guy next to me on the bus was reading: 1,900 cars every day are added to the streets of Beijing alone. That’s one city, in one country. Now for the real [...]
Posted in Behavior, China, Justin Manger, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Cars View CommentsInfographic: World’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions
August 16th, 2010 Justin Manger Here’s a quick post linking to an montage at flight search engine fly.co.uk about the amounts and sources of greenhouse gases. Among other information, the world’s 1.8 billion cattle apparently produce 18% of the world’s total greenhouse gases. It’s well presented and makes for some interesting quick reading. The infographic is also pasted below after the [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Energy Efficiency, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Energy Conservation, Food, Trains View CommentsThink You’re Being Green at Work? Test Your Knowledge with a Quiz
August 10th, 2010 Justin Manger The Energy Star program has a fun little quiz you can take to see if you’re up to snuff on your work related greenness. Some of the questions are no brainers but some are quite tough and the answers interesting. I was shocked, for example, to find out the age of one of the oldest buildings in [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Conservation, Education, Justin Manger, Sustainability Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Energy Conservation View CommentsGills Onions Produces “Green” Onions
August 1st, 2010 Eric Wilson Last year my father sent me an article from the Los Angeles Times about a company that was using its waste to partially power the company. I did not follow up on it at the time, but he called the other day (almost exactly one year after the original article) and said, “There’s this company [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, Renewable Energy Tags: Bio-fuels, California, Carbon Dioxide, Waste View Comments
