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 [...]
Ben & Jerry’s: fair-trade ice cream
The popular North American ice-cream corporation has committed itself to use only fair-trade-certified ingredients in all its flavours by the end of 2013. This is both a huge dare and an opportunity, given the increasing social demands for more sustainable [...]
Clean Energy NOW!
Clean Energy advocates in the US are coming from every sector. Last week the ‘Hip Hop Caucus’ raped up a week-long tour that started in New Orleans and ended with DJ Biz Markie on the steps of Capitol Hill in [...]
Energy Star for data centers
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is developing a program to foster energy efficiency in data centers. Starting in June, data centers will be able to apply for Energy Star certification. Operators will first have to go through an online test, [...]
Sustainability on TED
As my plane was leaving LA after TED2010 and I watched the curious man-made landscape of circling streets and repetitive housing, I thought of the provoking book by Stewart Brand called Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto which stated some [...]
EPA’s environmental video competition
If you like nature and movies, this is a great opportunity for you. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a video competition “Our Planet, our stuff, our choice”. You can participate with your video until February 16th. The [...]
What’s happened so far in Copenhagen
The fifteenth meeting of the UNFCCC members in Copenhagen, Denmark, started this Monday. It will last two weeks, and will determine the future of our planet. The world leaders gathered there have humanity’s future in their hands. The transcendence of [...]
The US and India agreed on climate change and clean energy initiatives
US president Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed a number of agreements to work together on climate change and energy security. This is great news, being the US the second largest carbon-emitter, and India the fourth. The [...]
The M2M Partnership seeks to lower methane emissions
The Methane to Markets Partnership is an international initiative that works to investigate and foster cost-effective methods to avoid methane leaks, and to use it as a clean energy source. This task is an important one. Why? Because methane accounts [...]
Some facts on the US Climate Bill
Many say Copenhagen is our last chance. That if we want to avoid major climatic catastrophe, we need to reach a transcendent treaty, through which countries decide on how global warming will be controlled. As usual, political will is a [...]
