The Race2theGreen Project will leave Minnesota by canoe in June for a three month trek down the Mississippi tracking environmental changes and meeting with green groups and scouts along the way.
They will have weekly podcasts tracking how clean water turns into sludge, and pass through Cancer Alley, an area where rare forms of [...]
Posts under ‘environment’
Tracking a drop of water down the Mississippi by canoe
Iceland #1 in environmental performance, US #61
The US is #61, close with Venezuela, Paraguay, and Georgia. Sigh. We really can do better than this. The study was done by Yale and Columbia.
Though scoring highly in forest sustainability and provision of safe drinking water, [the US score] is offset by high greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution issues.
Welcome to Dystopia
Where criminals are still free and desperately arguing for a continued coverup of their crimes:
I’m not amused that the Wall Street Journal solicited an op-ed attacking the decision to try KSM in civilian court from one of the people–John Yoo–with the biggest conflict on such a decision. It’s yet more proof that Rupert Murdoch is [...]
More thoughts on a new economy
In a previous post, I looked at some characteristics that a post-modern economy ought to have. But later, I realized I had overlooked a useful way of considering this issue: the economy is, in some sense, a giant business entity. That means accounting has something to offer on the topic.
Imagine you’re put in [...]
Best Green Blogs
Best Green Blogs is “a comprehensive resource for all things green and sustainable in the blogosphere.”
There’s hundreds of sites listed here, with a short description of each, and you can view by category too. Highly useful.
Heavy weather and wobbly infrastructure
John Robb blogs about the current South Africa blackouts where the usual culprits of inadequate maintenance, poor planning, and bad management have, combined with bad weather, causing a massive electricity shortage that will take years to fix.
The blizzards in China have caused severe damage. The electrical grid, primarily fueled by coal, can’t reliably power [...]
Emission trading exchanges
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), launched in 2003, is the world’s first and North America’s only active voluntary, legally binding integrated trading system to reduce emissions of all six major greenhouse gases (GHGs), with offset projects worldwide.
Reductions achieved through CCX are the only reductions made in North America through a legally binding compliance regime, providing independent, [...]
California greenhouse gas regulations
The Bush administration’s decision to deny California the right to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles exploded like a grenade here and in California. But it was hiding in plain sight for weeks.
Schwarzenegger says California will sue the federal government, which certainly indicates an open rupture among Republicans. And at least eight other states are joining [...]
