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The European car industry is going to be heavily impacted by regulations on pollution limitations and tensions are rising between German manufacturers on one side and the French and Italian car industry on the other. Reason? German cars are much heavier than those made by the French and the Italians and the Germans fear that they will be penalized by new pollution regulations.
New cars by 2012 can only emit 120 grams of CO2 per kilometer at max. Most European cars average 160 grams per kilometer at the moment. The new rules are expected to transform the look and feel of all European cars. Even the smallest and most energy efficient cars are required to undergo design changes so the sector as a whole can reach the new goals.
As a proponent of changing individual lifestyles to reduce environmental waste, I encourage sustainable living to more than just...[read more]
After four years of heads down work to find answers where it appeared that only questions existed, Adam Werbach followed...[read more]
Water shortages are on the rise, from Mexico to the Andes, northern China to southern India, and Spain to Pakistan....[read more]
GridPoint Inc.and Duke Energy announced positive results from what is believed to be the first commercial test of utility-controlled “smart charging” for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).[read more]
Academic institutions in Georgia, Minnesota and New York have been invited to represent their states in a joint US-Swedish renewable energy institute that aims to spearhead development and adoption of renewable energy technology.[read more]
Foresters, climatolgists and environmental agencies are devoting much time and effort to figure out a way to include deforestation abatement into the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development and carbon trading schemes. A recently released discussion paper examines the potential effects carbon credits would have on forest conservation and use.[read more]
Israel’s southernmost Eilot region is a special place in several respects. For one, the desert blooms here, thanks to an aquifer that has turned it into an agricultural center. It also holds a unique place in the hearts and minds of the world’s birds, ornithologists and birding enthusiasts, as it in the migratory route for hundreds of species making their way north to Eurasia and their breeding grounds. It’s also a budding center of entrepreneurial spirit and renewable energy, home to the Arava Power Co., which is hatching plans to build a 500 kWhr solar farm on Kibbutz Ketura.[read more]
Public skepticism and mistrust of businesses’ efforts to “go green” not only pose problems for corporations making honest, substantive efforts to do so, they pose significant obstacles for the type of local-to-globally coordinated efforts necessary to mitigate climate change and enhance energy security. Bridging this credibility gap was the subject of a recent GreenPepper “Eco-Concerns” survey. [read more]
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has released the first of three reports assessing the potential risks climate change and land subsidence pose for the Gulf Coast region's transportation infrastructure and proposing ways that planners and government officials might adapt.[read more]
Lots of activity at WIREC 2008 (the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference), including more than 100 uni-, bi- and multi-lateral pledges from some 40 countries to increase renewable energy development and use.[read more]
Greenwash is a new addition to the English lexicon and a practice that offers businesses a potentially quick and high return. Those are likely to turn out to be ephemeral, and even damaging, not only to practitioners but to other organizations intent on making honest efforts to address greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and environmental degradation.[read more]
A survey of corporate executives from around the world conducted by McKinsey & Co. indicates that corporate reputations, media attention and consumer preferences are the most influential factors when it comes to climate change. [read more]
I'm not a big reader of magazines or periodicals but one I always look forward to receiving is High...[read more]
Issues of environmental justice are increasingly coming to the fore in local, state and federal legislatures and the courts, as evidenced by 12 state district attorneys bringing suit against the EPA over revisions to the Toxic Release Inventory program. Indicative of developments in the West, a precedent recently set in New Mexico’s Supreme Court and interpretation of a 2005 gubernatorial EJ executive order are likely as communities, municipal and the state government wrangle over landfill permits.[read more]
Evidence that global climate warming is taking place at a faster rate continues to accumulate...and that man-made carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions are among, if not the primary agent, of change.[read more]
The amount of electronic waste and scrap people toss into the waste stream is growing much faster than nascent efforts to deal with what is a complex and global problem. The UN StEP program is a step in the right direction, but closing the product lifecycle loop to include recovery, reuse and recycling is going to require a major change in consumers' mindset and behavior.[read more]
There's been a rush by educational institutions of all shapes and sizes to launch new, usually interdisciplinary programs, that aim to capitalize on the fast rising prominence of climate change, energy and natural resources development and management both at the local level and at the highest levels of government and international cooperation. Some have been around longer than others.[read more]
The UN, World Bank and a host of other leading public and private organizations have for more than a decade now led efforts to develop a generally accepted set of indicators of sustainable development that governments and industries could commit to and implement in an effective way…The effort continues and the stakes-- as well as the consequences of success or failure-- are higher than ever… [read more]
The World Economic Forum released its annual ranking of global economic competitiveness last week, drawing attention not only to which countries prominent business leaders and economists believe have the best equipped economies, but to the deep and wide-ranging impact statistical economic indicators have, and how we define economic progress, as well as our social and environmental well-being. [read more]
Here's an interesting puzzle of priorities. AirTrain airlines, a discount carrier based in Atlanta is attempting a hostile takeover of...[read more]
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