Clean energy can play an important role in job creation, says Blue Green Alliance, a national partnership between labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy. The...
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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...
In 2006 a report compiled by the UN’s Food and Agriculture arm found that livestock’s greenhouse emissions accounts for 18% of the total, while the global transportation network, a much more targeted culprit, accounts for a lot less at...
Image via Wikipedia A report published by the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, says some first generation biofuels such as ethanol from sugar cane can have positive...
