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No walk in the park for Elk of Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park is one of the most environmentally protected parks in the world but we can’t protect the plants and animals from global warming. Yellowstone is plagued by disappearing ponds and lakes due to a decade of drought. Both plant and animal species are running out of suitable habitats and falling prey to insects, [...]

The Greenest Home in America

Venture Capitalist Paul Holland and his wife Linda Yates are building what Holland refers to as the greenest home in America. The home, which is being constructed in Portola Valley, CA will be over 5,600 square feet and will feature solar panels, LED lighting, water reclamation, and geothermal heating and cooling. Using the LEED (Leadership [...]

For want of a Leaf

Perhaps we are going too far afield here with or exploration of green vehicles and the batteries that power them. But cars create emissions and plenty of them. One of the easiest ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions will be to have zero emissions cars. With that said, here are a few articles that follow [...]

Batteries that are not batteries

As a child I remember changing the position of batteries in my flashlight so as to try and squeeze a little more light out of it. I was summarily amazed when those newfangled alkaline batteries lasted 5 times as long and didn’t leak all over the place. Rechargeable Nickel Cadmiums followed and are a further [...]

The sky actually is falling

Members of the United States Senate have seized on climate change as a political football and consequently are stalemating legitimate efforts to enact greenhouse gas emissions and other general pollution control legislation. They were able to gather this faux support by decrying errors in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued prior to and [...]

Renewable nuclear power – A viable goal or an unrealistic scientific dream?

A few years ago a couple of fairly well respected scientists, Martin Fleishman and Stanley Pons announced to great fan fare that they had created a positive result cold fusion process in a jar on a tabletop. The basis of their experiment was the electrolysis of heavy water with a palladium anode. The premise of [...]

Recently shifting opinions on the importance of clean energy

Those crafty Norwegians thought they could give Barack Obama the peace prize and he would quickstep into the Copenhagen Climate conference with promises and plans for greenhouse gas reductions. Instead Obama joined in the non-productive rhetoric shared by every major power on the Earth. The Chinese blamed the Indians for global warming climate change. The [...]

The discrediting of the 2007 IPCC report

The 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was so impressive that it earned a Nobel Prize. Indeed the task of tracking and monitoring global climate conditions and then trying to correlate the data is probably not even possible. Still the IPCC did so and their report was accepted as scientific fact. The [...]

Ecosystem fragility and the Golden Toad

Perhaps the poster child for global warming and climate change is the Golden Toad. Initially discovered in 1966, these brightly colored amphibians were completely extinct by 1989. Basically the minute area they existed in, the Monte Verde Cloud Forest of Costa Rica suffered a severe drought which dried up the spawning pools the Golden Toad [...]

Positive progress since the Copenhagen Conference

The Copenhagen Climate Conference was a complete flop… or was it? Ranjendra Pachauri who just a few short years ago was given the Nobel Prize for climate research and was recently discredited because of comments regarding the estimated time for the Himalayan meltdown. Is this true? Will the countries of the world still continue the [...]