Green Deal Energy Bill

UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne announced that landlords will be forced to improve their most energy inefficient properties, during his Second Reading of the Government’s Green Deal bill last week, according to the BC Sustainable Energy Association. An estimated 682,000 properties will have to be improved under the auspices of the Green Deal. Under the proposal, landlords wi...

Site C Dam Campaign

More than their policy of self sufficiency, the BC government wants to be an energy exporter. “To export energy reliably, they need to have it backed up...

Top 10 Ways to Help Birds

The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has a good list of the top 10 ways we can all help protect birds this Spring. Some of the bird friendly tactics are to h...

Energy Stars

Energy Stars are good for our environment. Energy Stars are commercial buildings and industrial plants in the top 25 percent of energy-efficient facilities in...

Green Insurance

Scientific Conservation Inc. has recently teamed up with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company in a joint green venture that will promote energy efficiency an...

Mali Humanitarians

There’s an interesting article in JOM Magazine about some Iowa State University students who went on a two week humanitarian project in Mali, Africa. Mali is one of our world’s ten poorest countries, and the students were helping a village work ...

30 Ways in 30 Days

The UN Environment Program (UNEP) has launched a “30 ways in 30 days” program, in which successful climate change prevention case studies will be presented that can be copied around the world. UNEP’s projects include green passports for sustainabl...

Wasted Energy

The energy embedded in the production of food that ends up being wasted in the U.S. could save the equivalent of about 350 million barrels of oil a year, according to Water Rhapsody. The mechanization of agriculture, pesticides and improved fertilizers has resulted i...

Questions for Political Candidates

In a recent Q & A period with Colorado’s three gubernatorial (political) candidates, several environmental, conservation and wildlife groups raised important questions in regards to conservation, energy and the economy, reports The Colorado Indepen...

Energy Awareness

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 Footprints

It’s August, hot in many places, and “everyone” is talking about water.  A lot of water may be used in summertime for lawns and swimming pools, but we all have a year round footprint that uses an amazing amount of water.  As WWF Canada recen...

Greening the Energy Grids

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 ...