Green Insurance
February 2nd, 2011 by Susie Hill in Climate Change
Scientific Conservation Inc. has recently teamed up with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company in a joint green venture that will promote energy efficiency and safety, according to a recent press release.
Scientific Conservation Inc. uses software to manage energy consumption by comparing current commercial building market energy usage to predicted system efficiencies. Fireman’s Fund is an insurance company that specializes...
Tags: Conservation, energy, U.S.
January 31st, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has decided to focus on clean energy rather than on climate change, reports the Guardian.
Ban Ki-moon will still be involved with international climate change negotiations, and recently called on the world...
Tags: Cancun, clean energy, Climate Change, Copenhagen, UN
December 20th, 2010 by Maryam Fejvai in Climate Change
Just days before the United Nations climate change meetings in Cancun Mexico, the Canadian federal government announced a plan to designate an area no...
December 14th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
Conservation does better when people understand the situation. As Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, recently said in Cancun, the use of...
Tags: Cancun, Climate Change, Conservation, greenhouse gas
November 3rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) has launched a “30 ways in 30 days” program, in which successful climate change prevention case studies will be pr...
Tags: 30 ways in 30 days, Climate Change, energy, hydropower, tea, UNEP
Energy Awareness
October 4th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
October is Energy Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is POWERING AMERICA; We’re On Target, writes the Federal Energy Management Program of the U.S. Department of Energy.
There are some positive signs in energy conservation. Investments in c...
Water Economics
September 16th, 2010 by Susie Hill in Climate Change
Los Angeles is one of the busiest cities in the world and is home to natural wonders such as the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains, not to mention Hollywood. Many people dream of living in such a beautiful place. Yet, according to an article in...
A Sticky Proposal
September 7th, 2010 by Susie Hill in Climate Change
A proposal written by an advisory group of industry, municipal, aboriginal and environmental groups has led to the recent unveiling of a plan by the government of Alberta that will give some level of conservation protection to at least 20% of tar sands la...
Tags: Alberta, boreal, carbon, Climate Change, Conservation, emissions, forestry, greenhouse gas, oil, sands, tar
One Million Trees
August 23rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
Earth Day Network recently announced it had found partners in 15 countries who together will plan one million trees in 2010 as part of the Avatar Home Tree Initiative. The Initiative is a partnership program between Earth Day Network and Twentieth C...
Tags: Avatar, Earth Day, reforestation, sustainable, tree, Twentieth Century Fox, UN, Woodland Trust
Greening the Energy Grids
August 9th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
A recent report demonstrates how a revised global energy “revolution” could create 3.2 million jobs, with 8.5 million in the renewable energy sector alone. All while reducing energy related CO2 emissions globally by over 80% by 2050.
The June 2010 ...
Tags: carbon emissions, CO2, coal, electricity, energy, energy security, green, Greenpeace, grid, renewable, Repower Alberta, Sierra Club, solar, sustainable, wind power
Solar Boats and a Lost Whale
August 2nd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
WWF Spain has launched a solar powered catamaran that will lead an awareness raising campaign along the Mediteranean coastline each summer for the next 3 years. The campaign is called Embárcate, Spanish for “Get on Board”, and will promote the ...
Our Days After Earth Day 2010
April 23rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
The 40th annual Earth Day was a success, with an estimated one billion people in 190 countries participating in some way, according to Earth Day’s website. Many people are forming green teams, dedicated to finding cost-effective ways to promote sustai...
Happy Earth Hour
March 26th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
Saturday, March 27th, at 8:30 pm, join 3,100 cities across 121 countries and territories and turn out your lights. You will be joining them to send a strong message that more needs to be done to fight climate change.
World Wildlife Fund seems to be lea...
Tags: Climate Change, Earth Hour, Earth Hour Game, ecards, WWF, WWF Canada, WWF US
American Attitudes towards Climate Change
March 2nd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication has five recent and interesting reports about climate change attitudes that can be downloaded when you visit their website. They’re well worth a good look.
The reports include a January 2010 update to their Global Wa...
Weather and Wildlife
February 16th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
Do you ever read a news item that makes you go “hhmmm”? Recently, several news items from the world of wildlife had that effect on me.
The first was from CNN online, about Kenyan wildlife officials rounding up and moving thousands of zebras and wildebeest from a northern park to ...
