When looking at energy sources, fossil fuel is a good place to start - over 80% of the world’s energy production is from fossil fuel, coal, oil and natural gas.  All in all, a conversion chart to normalize primary energy volume would have BTU’s, which economists love, expressed in quadrillions, along with “million ton oil equivalents” [...]

Following this brief commentary is a “letter for publication” entitled “CLEAN, SAFE SOURCES OF ELECTRICITY” received from www.mng.org.uk/gh/ and if you can find out what M, N, and G mean you are more observant than I. In this “letter for publication” we are provided a list of alternative energy technologies that may power the planet without [...]

Sacramento is the capital of California, a state that is world-renowned for its concern for the environment.  As such, the Sacramento region is attracting businesses and investors from around the world, eager to capitalize on Sacramento’s enthusiastic embrace of green industry.  But sometimes green is brown.
At the Port of Sacramento, a start-up company based in Long [...]

At last there is a bit of a chorus developing to call attention to the biofueled destruction of tropical rainforests at a time when rainforest restoration might actually curb global warming better and faster than drastically curtailing use of fossil fuel. 
The Global Canopy Programme (GCP), to quote their own website, is “a global alliance linking studies of [...]

If you ever drive up to Echo Summit in California’s majestic Sierra Nevada range, or up any extended steep grade, for that matter, sooner or later you are going to see one of those hybrids limping along in the slow lane.  It is common knowledge that hybrids get better mileage in the city than on [...]

We have just posted a feature story by Avilash Roul entitled “India’s Solar Power” on our home page, where the reader will find an in-depth survey of the current state of solar power in India and the efforts of India’s government to develop solar power. 
In our introduction to that story, we point out the dauntingly [...]

We have discovered the weblog “Climate Science” authored by Dr. Roger A. Pielke, someone whose positions on global warming and climate change very closely mirror our own.  Dr. Pielke, a climatologist currently with the University of Colorado at Ft. Collins, is organizing a conference this August in Boulder, Colorado, on “Land Cover / Land Use Change” and its [...]