Climate Change
The story of Earth Day
Next Thursday is Earth Day’s 40th anniversary. It started with a US Senator’s intention to make environmental issues more public, and now more than a billion people participate. After its first celebration, a couple of environmental laws were passed. What [...]
Towards a change in technological paradigms
Current fossil fuel technologies are rooted in the world as technological paradigms. Are these paradigms becoming obsolete? Problems caused by their externalities become visible as time goes by, but apparently these are not enough excuse to leverage a change. How [...]
C40 Cities: large cities and climate change
C40 Cities is a collaborative effort of large cities to tackle climate change. Through C40, large cities around the world share information and work together to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase energy efficiency. In partnership with the Clinton [...]
NASA will receive $2.4 billion to study climate change
The NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) primarily studies space. But US president Barack Obama wants it to pay more attention to Earth. That’s why he is giving the government agency $2.4 billion to study climate change, over the next [...]
The Climate World Cup: a game to fight against climate change
Businesses and companies around the world are great greenhouse gas emitters. The Climate World Cup aims at engaging them in reducing their emissions and taking stronger stances against climate change. This game invites you and everyone interested to vote and [...]
Sculptures in Greenland generate awareness on climate change
The Arctic is melting. I listened to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth presentation again this week and was reminded of the magnitude of the current climate crisis. We really are in trouble. One of the very complicated problems we face [...]
Vote Earth by switching off your lights this Saturday
I guess most of you must have already heard or read about “Earth Hour”, which invites everyone on this planet to turn off their lights next Saturday, at 8.30 pm, in your local time zone. Why? To show decision makers [...]
Human behavior plays a critical role in reducing energy use
In an interview with Grist, Republican Brian Baird explains his ideas of how psychology should be taken more into account when dealing with climate change. Baird has a PhD in clinical psychology, and argues that “to change the way Americans [...]
“The overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged”
A few weeks ago, The New York Times featured an opinion editorial by ex US Vice-President Al Gore, which I highly recommend reading. Basically, Gore says that despite last year’s climate gate, and the disillusioning failure of Copenhagen, the menace [...]
Marks & Spencer’s impressive “Plan A”
Marks & Spencer is a major British retailer, with over 1,700 stores in the UK and around the world. There’s no doubt that its impact is huge, so the fact that the company has great environmental plans is fantastic. Leaders [...]
Obama speaks to the American people
President Obama’s State of the Union address yesterday night was, in my mind, expertly delivered. Like a good politician, Obama played to various interest groups and in no area did he do this more than in the energy sector. He [...]
Solar thermal energy could generate up to a quarter of the world’s electricity
The initials CSP stand for “Concentrated Solar Power.” As we have mentioned, this is our preferred alternative energy source, especially since it uses salt (NaCl) in a liquid state to keep turbines moving when the sun disappears. According to a [...]
