The Greening of Labor High quality employment for environmentally
sustainable industries is spreading worldwide—from Texas to Germany to Kenya.
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by Ben Block on October 21, 2009
U.S.
consumers pay less for their energy than consumers in most
industrialized nations. Yet electricity and fuel prices typically fail to
reflect the full cost of energy production and consumption, especially in terms
of health effects.
by Ben Block on October 19, 2009 A coalition of businesses,
environmentalists, and scientists is uniting to request that U.S.
climate policy help tropical nations protect their forests as an
affordable carbon offset strategy.
Plans are forming behind the scenes for a gathering reminiscent of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to address environmental issues that have lost international attention in recent years.
by Ben Block on October 9, 2009
Conservation groups are concerned that lawlessness coupled with a decline in foreign aid have allowed for deforestation that threatens some of Madagascar's most unique ecosystems.
As Europe's energy future
shifts offshore, wind developers have found that mastering European waters is
more challenging than many expected, especially as projects are sited farther
out and built with larger turbines.
by Anna da Costa on October 5, 2009
As international climate
negotiations progress, India
has shown signs of more proactive engagement both internationally and at home.
by Yingling Liu on October 2, 2009
A government warning against overinvestment in the Chinese polysilicon
industry is helping to phase out smaller producers that use less sophisticated
technologies and have higher operating costs.
by Ben Block on September 30, 2009
Climate change is expected to lower yields and raise crop
prices across the developing world, leading to a 20-percent rise in child
malnutrition, a new study finds.
by Ben Block on September 28, 2009 As rising energy costs, water scarcity, and climate change threaten the affordability and availability of manufacturing inputs, corporations are pressuring their suppliers to become more sustainable.
by Ben Block on September 25, 2009
The combination of sinking deltas and rising seas will
increase damages caused by hurricanes and other flooding events, a new study
finds.
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