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The aviation industry, like all major industries, plays a role when it comes to contributing to greenhouse gases and pollution in the environment. Specific data for the United States is harder to come by, but the UK has been forthcoming with statistics about its own CO2 production...
For most of his career, my middle school art teacher had the letters “POV” written on the classroom ceiling. From time to time, confused eleven-year-olds would inquire about the meaning behind the acronym permanently overhead. “Well,” he’d respond, “that depends upon your point of view.”
So...
The Great Rift Valley countries in Africa have an enormous potential for geothermal energy. With Kenya, Djibouti and Tanzania already developing this potential, Ethiopia is getting serious about it too. Early this year, the Development Bank of Ethiopia announced that it will offer $20 million to kickstart...
Leisure proponents rejoice! A new study says that cutting work hours would slash greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change.
The idea goes that by reducing hours that factories and offices are operating, energy usage would drop, according to a study authored by economist David Rosnick and released...
Opower is the world’s leading provider of customer engagement solutions for the utility industry (whatever that means) and last week it announced that it had saved residential energy customers in the United States a total of two terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity nationwide as a result of its behaviour-based...
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South Gloucestershire is set to expand a program to switch off street lights between midnight and 5 am in order to cut costs on energy bills and reduce carbon emissions. The council has already implemented the program for approximately 6,000 of the total 29,500...
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For years, scientists have said that it is imperative to prevent the world’s climate from rising 2 degrees celsius (3. 6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. However according to a new report, climate scientists believe that it is increasingly...
A new ad targeting the fossil fuel industry is stating that Exxon, “Hates your children”. Watch the video and leave your comments below.
Three NASA satellites are now being used by a professor from the Tel Aviv University to gauge an accurate measure of the pollution levels over our planet’s megacities, the first to provide a comprehensive standardised global testing of pollution levels.
Prof. Pinhas Alpert of Tel Aviv University’s...
LONDON — Europe should consider cutting costs for consumers by rewarding renewable power and energy efficiency through the region’s carbon market rather than through expensive subsidies to utilities, the head of EON SE’s trading unit said.Clean-electricity...
