Green Job Adviser, Van Jones Resigns
President Barack Obama’s adviser, Van Jones resigned from his post early this morning, according to the reports from the White House.
President Barack Obama’s adviser, Van Jones resigned from his post early this morning, according to the reports from the White House.
A recent study confirms that 32 percent of deep ocean sharks and rays are threatened with extinction. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Shark Specialist Group, this threat is mainly due to overfishing — when fishing activities cause a massive depletion of marine creatures, upsetting the ecological balance and ultimately exhausting the fish supply.
Mercury was detected in every fish sampled in 291 streams across the country in a U.S. Geological Survey study released Aug. 19.
Ahead of the wildfires that are currently burning in Southern California, Utah and Colorado, Harvard scientists predicted an increase in frequency of fires in the western United States due to global warming.
A team of American and Australian scientists have located the coldest, driest and calmest place on earth, where no human has likely ever set foot, and the perfect place for an observatory. In the search for a future observatory site, astronomers identified a high, flat area on the Antarctic Plateau, Science Daily reported Sept. 1.
California's legislature is close to passing a requirement to raise the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 33% in 2020. If it is enacted, this law will once again place California at the forefront of efforts to expand the role of renewable energy resources like wind, solar, and geothermal in supplying electricity to homes, businesses, and industry.
The widely popular nature documentary, Earth, is scheduled for release on DVD and Blu-Ray this Tuesday. Earth is the first feature film developed by Disneynature, which is an independent film label create by the Walt Disney Company. This documentary earned over $32 million at the box office and is poised for strong DVD sales.
The American Recovery Act bill sets aside $4.3 billion for improving the energy efficiency of homes in 2009 and 2010, but you have to know how to get that money. A lot of that money will be distributed as tax credits on the installation of new, more energy-efficient products that will help wean the United States off of its dependence on fossil fuels.
Surely, lots of recycling and less trash would be observed. In Scotland, there would be less trash and even fabric and wood would be recycled. Just last week on Aug. 20, Scotland released its first ever plan for a zero waste society.
The U.S. Navy just gave an extra boost to a lighting retrofit underway for navy ships to replace existing inefficient lighting with energy-efficient light emitting diode (LED) lights. The LED lighting retrofit project will use solid state lighting fixtures supplied by Energy Focus Inc. that use less energy and have a much longer life over the existing incandescent and fluorescent fixtures throughout the entire Navy fleet.