The Middle East has long been known as the petrol capital of the world, but it soon could become better known for its renewable energy assets. New environmental efforts throughout the Sun Belt may transform the rainless region into the world’s largest harvester of renewable energy, in addition to creating the greenest city on the planet.
Attention all electricity bill payers! After almost 100 years of existence, LED lighting technology is finally a cost-effective investment for ambient lighting applications. If you have fluorescent tubes in your building, you are potentially paying more than 10 times what you should for lighting.
As baseball’s shining stars are featured in the 80th Major League Baseball All-Star Game Tuesday night at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Mo., the sport’s environmentally conscious efforts are worth noting, especially where an estimated 80 million spectators watch each year.
Greenhouse gases are emitted every day in the daily generation of power used to power our economy, businesses, buildings and homes. These gases are considered by many scientists to cause climate warming. However, airborne pollution also includes particulates, and scientists are now saying that while some particulates add to warming, others have a cooling effect.
According to a recent study, it seems that climate change and the subsequent melting of the polar ice caps may result in a blossoming of the kinds of life found in the Arctic Ocean. However, it may not be as exciting for humans as it sounds, as the results of the survey were determined by studying mud cores from the region just before the dinosaurs became extinct.
The Ghanaian rainforest has been decimated over the past 50 years, losing about 80% of its size in that period. Paired with the fact that deforestation is responsible for roughly one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions each year, and there is a serious problem brewing on Africa’s western coast.
After staunch denial that climate change was an occurring phenomenon during the Bush Administration, change has finally come to the international climate change debate.
Given that more than 45 million Americans live within 300 feet of a four-lane road, airport or railroad, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), together with the University of Michigan, will spend the next two years studying the health effects of air pollution on children living near the country’s busiest roads.
At the Good Karma Café, being green doesn’t mean being obvious.
You wouldn’t know it walking through its doors, but almost every inch of the small, brightly decorated coffee shop near Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia is fashioned from recycled substances.
Scientists are concerned about the contribution hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) will have to climate warming, especially given that in the next few decades developing countries are expected to use HFCs exponentially more than developed countries have to date. While HFCs do not deplete the ozone layer, they are greenhouse gases that contribute to radiative climate warming.
