Energy-efficient refrigerators can save more energy than all the wind, solar thermal and solar photovoltaics in the United States can produce. Thus spoke Steven Chu, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary during his Copenhagen presentation on...
Category - Carbon emissions
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The first two days of the COP15, the Copenhagen climate summit designed to produce a binding treaty whereby the international community will commit itself to reduce carbon emissions, has been plagued with...
The preservation of the world’s remaining forests is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Forests are also home to most of the world’s wildlife as well as some of the remaining indigenous populations. Besides, the felling of...
Image via Wikipedia Germany as a nation has always been at the forefront of the green movement. True, its carbon emission rate per person is high (9.7 tons per year, according to a recently released list by the International Energy Agency). But...
We recently blogged about the UN’s recent statement on biofuels. Over the last week, there has been a lot of discussion on the topic, and not exactly an optimistic one, but it’s an important debate to have ahead of the Copenhagen...
