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Carbon

Canada Sets Aside its Boreal Forest for Carbon Storage

November 2, 2009

Twice the size of California, Canada’s Boreal Forest is being set aside to collect and store Carbon, effectively acting as a planetary lung.

China to Produce a Fifth of its Power by Renewables by 2020

June 11, 2009

China believes it can match and surpass Europe’s wind and solar power targets by 2020 and produce a fifth of its power needs from renewable energy over the next 10 years.
“We are now formulating a plan for development of renewable energy. We can be sure we will exceed the 15% target. We will at least [...]

Our Dirty Fuels and Overconsumption are Changing Our Oceans

June 10, 2009

I think we’ve got to be simply dense, or maybe just in denial, to think that the combined actions of our population of 6 billion people doesn’t have any impact on our planet. Plenty of us will go to great lengths to deny any sort of global warming effects, and want to argue about whether [...]

Gleaning the Green 5.28.09

May 28, 2009

Grist: King Corn, meet Big Oil

If I were the National Corn Growers Association, I think I might start getting nervous. They’re already in the fight of their lives with the EPA and Congress over corn ethanol’s place in the Renewable Fuel Standard and cap-and-trade legislation. Now they have to deal with Big Oil as a [...]

Biochar: Black Gold for Ag, Clean Energy for Us

April 4, 2009

Biochar is a charcoal created by the chemical decomposition (pyrolysis) of organic waste. Biochar can be used to improve soil, sequester carbon, and the gases given off during the biochar process can be captured and used as fuel.

Cpt. Kirk Wants Lithium Crystals, Err, Carbon Emission Cut

November 7, 2008

William Shatner wants Carbon Emissions cut by 80 percent by 2050

There is an ocean of oil under our feet!

August 12, 2008

Apparently there is a vein of Oil Shale that extends from Canada to Minnesota. Oil proponents (those who would stand to profit from extracting the shale) contend that we are standing on an oil deposit larger than all the oil fields in the combined world. There is quite a debate going on with the conservative [...]

Going Green 101

July 3, 2008

None of us are going to pull a Thoreau and give up our Earthly possessions, so we have to make an individual choice on what recourse we want take and how much pollution and trash we want to give back to our planet. How do we Go Green?
The below environmental tips are just those, tips. [...]