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Submitted by Simonjm: A recently released report titled "SMART 2020: enabling the low carbon economy in the information age" says that ICT could help cut global greenhouse gases 15 percent and save up to $946 billion by 2020. (Read More)

Oct 04, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition executive director Sheila Davis decries amount of e-waste dumped into India and other poor regions from the U.S. Entire village economies are built around residents doing the extremely dangerous work of ripping these products apart to harvest the hazardous metals and chemicals they contain. (Read More)

Oct 04, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: China's Suntech acquired a California company EI Solutions, who helped convert Google HG to run partly on solar power. The acquisition will give Suntech a launch pad for commercial, utility and government contracts. (Read More)

Oct 02, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: Latest Report Card profiles 300 leading schools GreenReportCard.org is the first website to provide in-depth sustainability profiles for hundreds of colleges in all 50 U.S. States and Canada. (Read More)

Oct 02, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: /begin shameless promotion: And now, a brief political/musical break: 2 versions of a new video that tells why the last 8 years were so bad...I play Dick Cheney in an "Undisclosed Location" complete with war toys...view it, share it! /end shameless promotion. (Read More)

Sep 11, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: SF has a strong new LEED rating-based ordinance. (Read More)

Sep 10, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: His plan, he said, deals with a three-part problem: an over-reliance on oil, which often comes from foreign sources; a sluggish world economy desperately in need of a new segment of jobs; and global warming. (Read More)

Aug 22, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: Methane is a big concern because it is so much more potent than carbon dioxide, the chief source of man-made pollution behind rising global temperatures. So is nitrous oxide, another byproduct of manure and fertilizer production. It has a whopping 296 times the heat-trapping potential of carbon dioxide. (Read More)

Aug 16, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: Some, including NASA scientist Jim Hansen, believe we have 10 years left to turn global warming trends around. The question is, what can we do? This current issue of YES! magazine shows solution that are within reach. (Read More)

Aug 15, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: For more than a year, San Jose's SunPower has been touting a 14-megawatt photo-voltaic solar array at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas as the largest in the nation. That's about to change in a big way. Pacific Gas . (Read More)

Aug 15, 2008

Submitted by Simonjm: An interesting observation on the success/failure of the Green movement so far. (Read More)

Aug 07, 2008

Environment  Talk about occupational hazards.Five Wildlife Conservation Society scientists studying the effects of global warming on shorebirds in Arctic Alaska had to be airlifted away from their remote camp late last month because of the appearance of another species whose life is changing as warming helps erode shores and melt sea i (Read More)

Aug 07, 2008

National Geographic Raising the specter intense flooding and epidemics, a new study suggests global warming could make rains stronger and more frequent than previously forecast. . (Read More)

Aug 08, 2008

Reuters: Environment FORT IRWIN, California (Reuters) - The U.S. military has a history of fostering change, from racial integration to development of the Internet. Now, Pentagon officials say their green energy efforts will help America fight global warming. . (Read More)

Aug 08, 2008

Financial Times As the world heats up, rainfall extremes – both deluges and droughts – will worsen more than most climatologists have predicted, a recent study says. (Read More)

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