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Environmental writer Tom Schueneman, a contributor to numerous environmental and sustainability-focused blogs and websites, publishes his flagship blog GlobalWarmingisReal as a resource of news, commentary, and information on climate change, energy, and sustainability. \
Climate change and sustainability are the issues of our generation. Meeting the challenge is a three-legged stool requiring action from individuals, business, and government. GlobalWarmingisReal addresses those three aspects of change (or lack thereof) through essays, research, and news reporting. Our aim is to help the concerned citizen understand the importance and urgency of the issues we face in the 21st century.
Website: http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/
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"Two Degrees" of Separation: Obama Needs to Outline his Yardstick on Global Warming
June 30, 2009 10:39 AM - Jake Schmidt, Global Warming is Real
In the midst of the fight of our lives (the House floor debate on the American Clean Energy and Security Act), a coalition of major U.S. groups called for the Obama Administration to outline its "yardstick" on global warming. What is it that this "scientific and pragmatic" Administration will use to measure our efforts to solve global warming pollution — its yardstick?
Canadian Government Backs Veg Growers Renewable Heat & Power Project
May 26, 2009 10:47 AM - Andrew Burger, Global Warming is Real
The Canadian government announced it will commit as much as $1.6 million to help Seacliff Energy Inc. build a combined heat, power and organic fertilizer plant in Ontario as part of the government's Agri-Opportunities program.
Geothermal Energy Is On The Rise As An Alternative Energy Solution
May 21, 2009 09:51 AM - Angelique van Engelen, Global Warming is Real
Recently, the US Department of Energy announced it has two forms of finance available to catapult the speedy development of enhanced geothermal systems into being. The stimulus package will spur growth of this type of energy by 15 to 16 percent by 2012 or 2013. The sector will benefit from the provision of $42 billion worth of grants for renewable energy and new technology to boost efficiency, along with over $130 billion in tax credits and loans. So what exactly is geothermal energy, how does it operate and will it become widespread?
Sustainable Ag, Ecosystem Services Big Part of Green Economy Solution
May 18, 2009 10:39 AM - Andrew Burger, Global Warming is Real
With world population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, large investments in ecological infrastructure services need to be made, and fast, if more in the way of food, water, energy and social crises are to be avoided, asserted UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner as the latest bi-annual meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development opened in New York City last week.
Developing "Green" Plastics: Brazil in the Lead
April 27, 2009 09:42 AM - Andrew Burger, Global Warming is Real
Brazil has become a leader in what promises to be a huge industry and global market that would have an equally profound, widespread and positive impact when it comes to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and reducing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention air, water and land pollution from human waste products more broadly speaking—bioplastics.
UN's State Of The World's Forests Reveals Deforestation Is Speeding Up
April 7, 2009 10:01 AM - Angelique van Engelen, Global Warming is Real
Around 20% of the world's forests are being illegally chopped down, a trend at its worst in Africa. The continent has lost around four million hectares of forests annually between 2000 and 2005, representing one-third of all global deforestation. Given the fact that Africa only hosts 16% of the world's forests, this is a devastating rate. And growth in Europe's need for wood (for use as biomass, among others) will likely stimulate the practice. The numbers for Asia and the Pacific, although seemingly positive, also tell stories of reduced biodiversity resources. The continent's 2005 total forest size of 734 million hectares was bigger than its 2000 level but the increase was mainly due to China's reforestation plantations. Natural forests are still being logged, only the practice is invisible!
Algae Biofuels - The Hype, the Hope, the Promise
March 27, 2009 05:57 AM - Thomas Schueneman, Global Warming is Real
The Algae Biofuels World Summit concluded this week in San Francisco. I was on-hand and on assignment for Triple Pundit Monday at the day long pre-conference briefing featuring leaders in research, government, and business involved in pushing the infant industry toward commercial-scale production.
Canadians Set Up First Solar Powered Community In North America
December 29, 2008 08:15 AM - , Global Warming is Real
A new Canadian neighborhood is North America's first solar-powered community. The community, named the Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is located in the town of Okotoks, Alberta, and consists of 52 houses all powered by solar (what else?) energy. The system that links the community together is ingenious. It stores the summer months' excess energy underground for it to be put to use in the extremely cold winter months that Alberta is notorious for. A total of 800 solar panels located on garage roofs throughout the community generate 1.5 megawatts of thermal power during a typical summer day, the project's organizers say.
Low Carbon, Clean Energy, Growth, Jobs & Geothermal
December 10, 2008 09:49 AM - , Global Warming is Real
There's been much high end academic research and political debate about the relative costs and benefits of transitioning to low carbon societies and renewable energy sources in countries with industrially developed and developing economies alike. There's likely to be a lot more going forward, particularly as United Nations Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol members continue their quest to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol by next December when they meet in Copenhagen, and as the Obama administration and the US Congress set their agenda for the first year of a new presidency.
Of Speculative Bubbles, the Crisis in Finance, Corn & Ethanol
November 26, 2008 09:38 AM - , Global Warming is Real
Alternative energy and clean technology businesses and investors are rightfully concerned that the credit crisis and the utter and complete failure of a growing number of the nation's largest, most prominent banks and investment funds will severly restrict their access to private working and long-term capital. Some even expect that with oil prices falling to, even below, $50 a barrel, that the stage is set for a repeat of a pattern seen following the ending of the OPEC embargo of 1979-80 and disinflation that followed, namely interest in, and resources devoted to developing a more sified, decentralized and cleaner energy system built around renewables fading into obscurity.