By guest contributor Derek Leahy For five long years the federal government and the oil industry have lobbied against the European Union labeling oilsands (also called tar sands) bitumen as ‘dirty oil’ […]
Photo credit: Katherine (chatirygirl) via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen If you live in the UK and you get your potatoes from the company Greenvale, then they could soon be produced using wind […]
Photo credit: Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing. Esteemed British actress Emma Thompson has following a Greenpeace trip in the Arctic on their ship the Esperanza released a powerful poem stating that we need […]
By guest contributor Ruth Lumley Sustainable buildings are not necessarily more costly to construct, according to new research. Sweett Group, the property and infrastructure company, used data from real building projects – […]
The Greenlandic ice sheet’s rapid ice melt is opening up new economic opportunities. Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. By Anders Lorenzen Greenland, who undoubtedly are experiencing the most rapid change […]
A coal storage area in Beijing. Photo credit: kafka4prez via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen City officials in Beijing have taken one of the most radical steps to deal with the ongoing air […]
By guest contributor Matt Owens It seems like the summer on the US East Coast has been unusually cold so far, but the truth is that it’s only been cold compared to […]
William Hague during a climate change event in November 2011 alongside former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne and South Africa’s Ambassador Mxakato-Diseko. Photo credit Department of Energy and Climate Change […]
Guatemala to get their first wind farm.
Trying to do a little good for the environment doesn’t require anything like as much effort as it once did for ordinary households. Nowadays, local councils have regular collections for recyclable materials […]
A greener life, a greener world 