At the end of this year, the Kyoto Protocol is set to expire, but talks in Doha, Qatar that began on Monday, November 26th and run through December 7th, aim to extend the protocol up until 2020. The Kyoto Protocol, whose main focus was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by around 5.2% of 1990 levels [...]
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Kyoto Protocol Set to Expire at End of the Year
November 27th, 2012 
Nick Grue 
Posted in China, Clean Technology, Japan, News, Sustainability 
Tags: Analysis, Doha, Greenhouse Gas, Kyoto Protocol, Nick Grue, Summit, United Nations 
No Comments »Is Sustainable Development an Oxymoron?
August 26th, 2012 Eric Wilson In a recent post on the Rio +20 Summit, Nick said “Getting so many people together in one room to decide how to continue increasing economic growth without damaging the planet may not be possible.” Indeed there are numerous barriers, both physical and ideological, to getting all sides to the table to discuss a future [...]
Posted in Education, Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Sustainable Development Tags: Economics, Environment, Population Growth, Public Health, United Nations No Comments »Rio Revisited
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 2012 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
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 [...]
Carpooling Grows Up
January 19th, 2012 Eric Wilson 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 [...]
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, [...]
