Creative Greenius
OCTOBER 18, 2013
Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. I’ve done that math too.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 22, 2010
Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.
Plugs and Cars
DECEMBER 11, 2007
Slate, the online magazine, has an enviro Q&A column, The Green Lantern , that asks the question today. percent of our nation's electricity is generated by the burning of coal. The long tailpipe, and all that. Driving one still has an environmental cost, mostly associated with the use of Santa's most feared stocking-stuffer: 49.7
Creative Greenius
MAY 14, 2009
I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. All of a sudden it was on fire.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
According to Fortune magazine’s cover story this week, BYD’s cost-cutting moves so far include hiring people to assemble batteries instead of buying the $100,000 robotic arms used by Japanese competitors, flying executives in coach for business travel and putting them up in suburban rentals instead of posh downtown hotels for events.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? The only question is a carbon TAX the kind of change Obama believes in.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Sorry, but electrics and electric power plants are so efficient that CO2 emissions are less than gassers even when the electricity comes from coal - and a lot of electricity doesnt come from coal. Well, the cheapest source is from steam reformed fossil fuels, and that process produces CO2, especially when that fossil fuel is coal.
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