The first-ever European Summit for Al Gore’s “The Climate Project” wraps up today, with thanks to the Tommy Hilfiger Group for hosting the event at its European headquarters in Amsterdam. The Climate Project is the non-profit organization that Gore has used to raise global awareness of climate change, and has recruited more than 2,500 volunteers [...]
Read more →You may have already heard that US Congress has banned incandescent light bulbs by 2014, or that other countries are all beginning to follow suit, but in Luxembourg yesterday, they jumped the gun – incandescent light bulbs will be banned all across the European Union as of 2010. Incandescent bulbs use up to 5 times more energy than [...]
Read more →There’s no doubt that the greenhouse gas “cap and trade” systems have a massive potential for financial growth in the near future, but a report from New Energy Finance puts those estimates in place and suggests that the global market may grow 80% this year, and put its dollar worth at $116 billion. Buying and [...]
Read more →Queen Elizabeth isn’t the only member of the Royal Family weighing in on environmental issues: during a video conference displayed in India last week, Prince Charles noted that “worldwide organic farming has to reduce greenhouse gas to the extent of 35%”, and that number has to be assisted by Indian farmers. A main concern in [...]
Read more →Despite China Tops Polluters List” target=”_blank”>fallen behind the curve and has ranked first on the list of the world’s worst polluters. China is responsible for 60% of the greenhouse gas emissions growth last year, and shows no signs of dependency on power from coal burning plants, and oil-based transportation. China has reportedly spent $10 billion [...]
Read more →With all of the talk of offsetting carbon credits lately, private companies in other nations are starting to catch on. South Korea is the next nation to get its first carbon trading company to trade offset credits, or CERs, and deal with other private companies to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects, and other environmental [...]
Read more →Greendex 2008, organized by National Geographic Society and Globescan, is a survey designed tomeasure environmental behaviour in consumers in 14 countries across the world. The list, in descending order, are consumers in India and Brazil coming in first, followed by China, Mexico, Hungary, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Spain, Japan, France, Canada, and in dead last, [...]
Read more →As everybody knows by now, urban areas in Asia are becoming increasingly busy with people and transportation and, not surprisingly, this is leading to a drastic increase in pollution and health problems. But in the national capital of South Korea, a greener future is on the horizon. The most important development by the new Mayor [...]
Read more →Although the phrase, “Are you a dirty chucker?” may have a different connotation to those of us on this side of the pond (not to mention being called a fag flicker), an organization in Britain dedicated to keeping the streets clean is going to be hounding smokers with that very question. Why? Because 78% of [...]
Read more →After Prince Charles was razzed last year for flying all the way to the States to pick up an environmental award (seriously, how didn’t he see that coming?), he decided that his trip to the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi in January should reflect his interest in environmental causes. Thus, he filmed a [...]
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