What is the true price of gasoline? It’s far more than you think when you step on the accelerator. This video shows the reckless reach of fossil fuel pollution.
Tags: · Air Pollution, Carbon Emissions, Cars, Fossil Fuels, gasoline
Germany is taking a big leap toward clean energy and away from the pollution created by fossil fuels. More than the U.S., or any nation, the country has committed to wind and solar power.
Tags: · clean energy, energy plans, Fossil Fuels, Germany, Nuclear Power, Solar, U.S., Wind Power
This beautifully shot video of a poor neighborhood in Houston, gives a glimpse of how difficult life can be near the biggest oil hub in the U.S..
Tags: · Air Pollution, Fossil Fuels, health risks, Houston Ship Channel, Manchester neighborhood, oil dependence, pollution
I remember 2007, when we started this website. People were tip-toeing toward greener behaviors. Activists were writing kids’ books explaining the greenhouse effect and urging tots to turn off the faucet while brushing their teeth. Scholars had assembled tomes, politely pointing out that we’d be running out of oil pretty soon. How things have changed on this Earth Day 2013…
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Climate Change, Earth Day, food system, Fossil Fuels, GMOs, green incentives, Keystone XL pipeline, Plastic bottles, pollution, Recycle & Reuse
You know those righteous 20-somethings you see on the news inveighing about how they’ve got the Earth on their shoulders and have to pick up the pieces of their wanton, consumerist elders? They do have a burden unlike any previous generation. God help ‘em. But here’s a little secret, they’re no greener than those elders, in fact, the Boomers out-green their kids in significant ways, according to a new survey by DDB.
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Climate Change, Earth Day, Electric Cars, Fossil Fuels, Green Events, green survey, Packaging, Recycle & Reuse, reuse
When President Obama nominated MIT’s Ernest Moniz to be energy secretary earlier this month, he hailed the nuclear physicist as a “brilliant scientist.” But beyond his job in academia, Moniz has also spent the last decade serving on a range of boards and advisory councils for energy industry heavyweights like BP and an uranium enrichment company.
Tags: · domestic energy, energy agenda, Energy Secretary, EPA, Ernest Moniz, Fossil Fuels, Green Energy, industry ties, MIT, nuclear industry, oil industry
For anyone who doesn’t want to reduce carbon emissions, China seems like a great scapegoat. The defenders of the status quo argue that U.S. companies will be at a disadvantage if we tax carbon or invest in clean energy because “China’s not doing anything.” Problem is: It’s not true.
Tags: · Andrew Winston, China, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, pollution
The Obama Administration released its revised environmental assessment of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Friday, portraying the project as a relatively safe way to transport oil from fields in Canada and North Dakota to the US heartland and ports at Houston. The review has riled environmentalists and pleased oil interests.
Tags: · Climate Change, energy efficiency, environment, Fossil Fuels, Keystone pipeline, Obama Administration, pipeline review, tar sands extraction
The U.S. shale boom being touted as able to deliver 100 years of domestic energy supply is nothing more than the latest investment bubble, asserts a report released this week by a veteran geoscientist.
Tags: · baby, Drill, Energy, Fossil Fuels, fracking, J. David Hughes, shale gas, sustainability, tight oil, U.S.
Outraged that the EPA dropped a case against a gas company that apparently contaminated private wells near Fort Worth, environmentalists from more than 80 groups in 12 states have called for an internal EPA investigation of the case.
Tags: · Fort Worth, Fossil Fuels, fracking, Range Resources, well contamination
Concerned about the heavy toll that carbon pollution is taking on the planet, students across the US are petitioning their colleges to divest from fossil fuels….By clicking on the link to their school, students are connected either to a petition they can sign, or a website for their campus group working for fossil fuel divestment.
Tags: · 350.org, BarbaraKesslerBlog, Biofuels, coal, Fossil Free, Fossil Fuels, Gas, gofossilfree.org, oil, Solar, universities divest, wind
From Green Right Now ReportsTar Sands Blockade, a coalition of landowners and environmentalists opposed to the tar sands pipeline, reported that police have arrested 12 protesters in East Texas for trying to stop the construction of the intercontinental pipeline.
Tags: · civil disobedience, Do the Math, East Texas, Fossil Fuels, Keystone pipeline, tar sands, Tar Sands Blockade
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