One way to encourage progress on a goal like energy reduction is to have a competition. Many of these competitions take place in the education sector. The ongoing Green Cup Challenge is one example. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has organized a number of national competitions, including the Battle of the Buildings and [...]
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California Strengthens Vehicle Emission Standards
February 2nd, 2012 
Chris DeArmond Over the past couple of decades, California has earned a reputation for passing its own environmental standards that are often much more rigorous than those set by the federal government. Following this trend, California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) released a tougher vehicle emissions program for vehicle model years (MY) 2015 through 2025. The Advanced Clean [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, News, Policy, Transportation 
Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Cars, Chris DeArmond, Climate Change, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid, Pollution 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Industrial Waste
January 27th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to yesterday’s post detailing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most recent Toxics report, comes today’s Five Friday Facts. The EPA compared many of the 2010 figures to 2000. The facts below come from Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins (the latter two are co-founders of the Rocky [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Recylcing Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Chemicals, EPA, Landfill, Natural Capitalism, New York City, RMI, Waste, Wastewater No Comments »Where the Trees Are: New Biomass Map Shows Forest Cover Across the U.S.
January 18th, 2012 Justin Manger Calling their work “possibly the highest resolution and most detailed view of forest structure and carbon storage ever assembled for any country,” the NASA Earth Observatory has released a map that includes measurements of about five million trees. With a scale of 30 meters, 4 computer pixels represents an acre of land. As the Earth Observatory states, The [...]
Posted in Conservation, Graphics, Justin Manger, News, Sustainability Tags: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide, Conservation, Environment 1 Comment »EPA’s New Website of Top Greenhouse Gas Emitters
January 12th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to a post the other day titled “Top Polluting Power Plants in North America,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a new website yesterday that is dedicated to identifying the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the U.S., including carbon dioxide and methane. As stated on the EPA’s site, “This tool [...]
Filthy Beijing Air (Photos)
January 12th, 2012 Justin Manger How dirty is the air in Beijing? “Beyond index” hazardous, for one. It also looks just nasty. The photos below paint a very hazy and unpleasant picture. The pollution this winter in China’s capital city is in stark contrast to the winter view here in Tokyo, where the cool air and winter air patterns sweep [...]
Posted in China, Featured Posts, Justin Manger, News Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Pollution No Comments »Top Polluting Power Plants in North America
January 9th, 2012 Justin Manger Here is a little bit of news that slipped under our radar as 2011 ran out. In October of last year, the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) published a report on the emissions on 3,000 power plants in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. These are the three countries that signed the NAFTA trade agreement back in the [...]
Posted in Business, Justin Manger, News Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Electricity Generation, Environment, Pollution No Comments »Could “Green Routing” Play a Role in Our Future?
December 23rd, 2011 Chris DeArmond Though it’s alluring to think that electric and hydrogen vehicles may transform the way we travel, it is more likely that small, incremental changes like route optimization will play dominating roles in our future—at least until we run out of oil. Researchers from the University at Buffalo studying “green routing,” which is achieved when all [...]
