Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Major economies including the United States and China are considering setting a goal of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 when they hold a summit in Italy next month, a draft document showed. The text also says the 17-member Major Economies Forum (MEF) will seek to double public investments …
There probably are lots of senior execs who've been comforted when their chief scientist or toxicologist has told them that since "the dose makes the poison," they shouldn't sweat some new study about a chemical found in small amounts in their products. Unfortunately, this maxim, which has been around for …
The Sears Tower, that bronze-black monument that forms the 110-story peak of the skyline here and stands as the tallest office building in the Western Hemisphere, will soon have another unique feature: wind turbines sprouting from its recessed rooftops high in the sky. The building
An environmental group on Wednesday asked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to deny permits for pipelines that would bring oil from Canada's oil sands to the United States. ForestEthics said production from Canadian oil sands, also known as tar sands, generates up to five times more greenhouse gas emissions …
The United States and Canada must do more than currently proposed to tackle greenhouse gases, France says in a position paper ahead of global climate talks in Copenhagen this December. The government document seen by Reuters, titled: "Possible outline of a fair and ambitious agreement in Copenhagen," is the strongest …
Hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants are a "natural" cooler widely used in domestic and commercial refrigerators all over the world, except in the U.S. and Canada. HC refrigerants produce less greenhouse gasses than hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) technology, but they aren't approved for the U.S. market - yet. Now Greenfreeze, the Greenpeace-developed HC refrigerant, …
This analysis provides an assessment of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to total U.S. emissions that could be achieved by cap-and-trade proposals currently submitted in the 111th Congress. This assessment is an update to a previous analysis released on May 19, 2009 and includes an assessment of the …
The NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen, the actor Daryl Hannah and more than two dozen other opponents of mountaintop removal mining were arrested during a protest in Raleigh County. The state police said about 30 people were charged after they blocked a road near a Massey Energy subsidiary
Despite the fact that dumping old computers in developing countries has been declared as violation of international law, Pakistan was being used as dumping ground for over 50,000 tons of e-waste that hurts local industry and also creates environmental and health hazards. Despite being a signatory to the Basel Convention …
President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to pass "historic legislation" to fight global warming, prompting his fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to aim for a vote on Friday on the bill to reduce industrial emissions of carbon dioxide. At a midday White House press conference, Obama said …
The U.S. government has awarded its first exploratory leases for offshore wind development to three companies that aim to place turbines off the coasts of New Jersey and Delaware, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday. The five leases were awarded to Hoboken, New Jersey-based Deepwater Wind LLC; two units …
The United States has been resisting European calls for industrialized nations to target an upper limit for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), according to a draft summit text. Two degrees is seen by the European Union and many developing countries as the threshold beyond which climate change …
General Electric's Energy Financial Services is working on thousands of megawatts of renewable energy projects, but is not likely to move forward until the U.S. government decides on rules for new grants, an executive in the company's energy business said on Tuesday. Funding for new clean energy projects largely dried …
Shares in carbon emissions exchange operator Climate Exchange plc jumped nearly 17 percent on Tuesday after IntercontinentalExchange said it had taken a 4.8 percent stake in the company on Monday. The shares, trading on the London Stock Exchange, closed up 107 pence or 16.6 percent at 751 pence. Climate Exchange …
Mumbai: India could go from poverty to affluence in one generation. By 2039, India too would be rich with a per capita income in excess of $22,000, adjusted for inflation and real exchange rate movements, says a report by the Emerging Markets Forum. This means, the annual income of an …
President Barack Obama, citing his own struggle to give up smoking, signed into law a bill giving the U.S. government broad regulatory power for the first time over cigarettes and other tobacco products. Mr. Obama said Monday that the law "would curb the ability of tobacco companies to market their …
