Being the world’s factory and having a population of 1 billion people rushing to own cars and consume has led to rising living standards for Chinese citizens. Rising living standards are now being put at risk by those exact increased living standards as pollution overwhelms big cities in China and starts adversely affecting people’s health. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Carbon Dioxide’
Pollution in Beijing Reaches “Beyond Index” Levels
December 13th, 2011 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Behavior, China, Justin Manger, Policy, Sustainability, Transportation 
Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Environment, Pollution 
No Comments »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 »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 [...]
Governor Ritter Question and Answer Session
November 26th, 2011 Eric Wilson A few days ago I wrote up the presentation given by former Colorado Governor, Bill Ritter. Ritter currently holds the position of Director and Senior Scholar at Colorado State University’s Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE). After his 30 minute speech, he took questions from the audience. What follows are notes from the question [...]
Changers: Not Just Another Solar Charger
November 12th, 2011 Eric Wilson That is what Changers.com would like you to believe. Their solar cell not only charges your electronic devices, but according to a recent article in the New York Times, it “gives consumers the ability to track the amount of money and CO2 they save by using solar power rather than a standard home or office [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Products, Recylcing Tags: Battery, Carbon Dioxide, Organic, Solar Energy 1 Comment »California Moves Forward on Cap and Trade
November 5th, 2011 Justin Manger On October 20th, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted final rules for a state wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gases. Once the program commences in 2013, large industrial facilities and power plants will become the main targets. Details for the program still aren’t finalized, but the adoption of rules at least shows the [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Justin Manger, News, Policy, Sustainability Tags: California, Cap and Trade, Carbon Dioxide, Electricity Generation, Environment No Comments »The Economic Advantages of Green Energy
October 14th, 2011 Guest Author The world is changing, and maybe not for the better. A look at The United States, as well as many other industrialized countries, finds that nearly 85% of energy comes from fossil fuels. Oil is integral in today’s society: we’re dependent on it. When oil is transported or burned, it emits CO2, among other air [...]
Five Friday Facts: The Nature of Design
September 30th, 2011 Eric Wilson A friend recently lent me her copy of David Orr’s The Nature of Design. I read and reviewed his 1994 book, Earth in Mind several months back. In the first few chapters there were a number of interesting facts. I culled a few from Earth in Mind for a past Five Friday Facts and noted [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Coal, David Orr, Food, Population Growth, Science, Waste No Comments »Five Friday Facts: CU-Buffaloes
September 16th, 2011 Eric Wilson As a follow up to the EPA’s Game Day Challenge post from earlier this week, this set of Five Friday Facts deals with the waste diversion efforts at the University of Colorado Boulder’s football stadium. Virtually all public food and beverage services in Folsom Field have converted have switched to recyclable or compostable materials and [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Recylcing Tags: Boulder-Colorado, Carbon Dioxide, Composting, Energy, EPA, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »
