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08/12/2014

Now Arriving at Pittsburgh International: Fracking

Pittsburgh International Airport’s runways are sitting on enough natural gas to run the whole state of Pennsylvania for a year and a half.

06/02/2014

"Even before its release, the regulation has prompted heavy lobbying from industry and environmental groups, and the ensuing battle promises to become, as the Natural Resources Defense Council climate director Peter Altman put it, 'the Super Bowl of climate politics.'”

The EPA will propose a rule to cut emissions from existing coal plants by as much as 30 percent by 2030.

05/15/2014

City of Angels?

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Fire Department reports a ruptured oil pipe near Glendale has spilled about 50,000 gallons of crude oil onto str

05/08/2014

A step in the right direction, but is it enough?

U.S. safety regulators urged companies shipping crude oil from North Dakota to stop using tank cars that have been implicated in fiery accidents.

05/07/2014

Great start, but is this possible for larger countries?

El Hierro island in the Canary Islands is turning entirely to wind and water energy and completely cutting off of the traditional grid.

05/01/2014

A significant victory for Obama's environmental agenda!

The Supreme Court upheld the E.P.A.’s authority to regulate coal-plant pollution that drifts from 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states to the East Coast.

04/24/2014

Have you ever wondered how the upper limit of 2° Celsius for global warming was determined; or how effectively we are avoiding that maximum? Read up!

04/23/2014

Great perspective

Earlier this year I worked as an election judge for the city of Minneapolis. It was the city’s second experience with ranked choice voting, a system where instead of voting for a single candidate, you get to pick your top three choices. If your first choice candidate is mathematically eliminated f…

04/21/2014

Looking at fracking not from an environmental standpoint, but an economic one. Interesting take!

A review of Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future by Richard Heinberg.

04/10/2014

“Water has not been a policy issue in the U.S.,” Ovink said. “That’s because you’re mostly all above sea level. But what if the sea level changes?”

Can Henk Ovink sell Americans on a new approach to flooding: to let the water in?

04/08/2014

Two birds, one stone!

As economies and populations grow, standards of living improve for billions of people, and with it the need for energy continues to rise. Or as World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim put it “energy is a critical part of boosting prosperity and eradicating poverty.”

04/02/2014

Amazing idea!

Off the grid is not a new concept. Tuning in and dropping off the main grid is an ongoing pursuit of many intellectual, nature-loving seekers time and again. Shangri-La or Akira Kirosawa's Village of the Watermills come to mind. Reinventing community with ecological awareness is not a new venture. B...