When I was a kid, my mom and a bunch of other parents in and around the neighborhood arranged a carpool system whereby each parent would drive a group of kids to school one morning and pick all of us up one afternoon each week. I never really thought much of it other than it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘United Nations’
Carpooling Grows Up
January 19th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Transportation 
Tags: Collaborative Consumption, iPod/iPhone App, Pollution, United Nations 
No Comments »Not Your Average Bus Trip: How “Green” is that Green Bus? Part 4
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 »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 »7,000,000,000
October 31st, 2011 Eric Wilson Today marks the arrival of the earth’s 7 billionth member. This figure (and its timing) is based on demographers at the United Nations. While it is not possible to know when, who, or where exactly the seven billionth member of our current population will be born (it may or may not be today, this month, [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: 7 Billion, Population Growth, United Nations, Video No Comments »International Maritime Organization Sets Sail New Emissions Reductions for Cargo Ships
July 19th, 2011 Justin Manger There has been plenty of attention and debate about coal-fired power plants, electric vehicles, gas taxes, renewable energy and so forth. When it comes to talk about pollution and environmentalism, these are topics du jour. However, a United Nations panel has quietly come to consensus on something not often talked about but important in its [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conferences, Justin Manger, News, Policy, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Pollution, United Nations No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Plan B 4.0 – Food
May 20th, 2011 Eric Wilson The following facts come from the first chapter of Lester Brown’s Plan B 4.0, which was published in 2009. The book is available in print or as a downloadable PDF from The Earth Policy Institute’s website. These facts all relate to food prices, which continue to rise. From mid-2006 to mid-2008, world prices of wheat, [...]
Zero Emissions Race Wraps Up in Switzerland
April 26th, 2011 Eric Wilson A few months ago we first wrote about Zero Emissions Race, the worldwide “race” to circumnavigate the globe in zero emission, electric cars. In a long overdue follow up, the race ended on February 24th at Palais des Nations at United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. In a reference to Jules Verne, the race took 80 [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Electric Vehicles, United Nations, Video No Comments »The Third (and Final?) Environmental Movement
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 [...]
Up and Coming Green Careers
March 10th, 2011 Guest Author Brian Jenkins is an expert about a number of career fields, including those in electronics technology and construction management. He has been writing for BrainTrack.com since 2008. What are green careers? Basically, any career that contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality falls into this category. What types of skills are in demand for these careers? A [...]
REDD: An International Framework for Combating Climate Change
January 27th, 2011 Guest Author by Akane Hanai Akane is a consultant at The World Bank with a Master of Arts in Environmental and Resource Policy from George Washington University. She is interested in international cooperation on climate change policy. (Original Japanese text for this article is below). As climate change has become a topic of discussion, I often see [...]
