e2 - Eye on Earth
by Janet L. Sawin on March 13, 2008 Last year was a banner year for renewable energy in the United States,
especially for the wind industry.
by Ben Block on March 10, 2008 The European Union is struggling to satisfy many of its major
environmental goals.
by Ben Block on March 7, 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush urged Congress to commit $2 billion toward his proposed international clean energy technology fund at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC).
by Ben Block on March 6, 2008 On Tuesday, the European Union formalized
its pledge to participate in the Methane
to Markets Partnership, the world’s largest exchange of methane-based
energy resources.
by Christopher Flavin on March 5, 2008 It finally happened this week. The price of oil passed the all-time
inflation-adjusted peak of $103.76 that was set in April 1980. What’s going on?
by Robert Engelman on March 3, 2008 Will China experience a massive baby boom once the reproductive
shackles come off?
by Ben Block on February 22, 2008 The International Whaling Commission’s 78 members are
meeting in London next month in an effort to reach agreement on whale conservation rules. Meanwhile, global whale hunting continues to increase.
by Michael Renner on February 20, 2008 The United Nations
keeps taking on new and increasingly complex peacekeeping challenges, but
U.N. missions today don’t just involve monitoring of
ceasefire lines. And peacekeeping suffers from major problems, starting with
money.
by Thomas Prugh on February 15, 2008 Ideas about how the
world works that don’t accord with reality can be unhelpful. That’s especially
true about mainstream economics.
But in recent
decades, economics theoreticians and researchers have suggested a variety of
reforms that would make economics truer, greener, and more sustainable.
by Christopher Flavin on February 13, 2008 Two studies published in the journal Science last week have reinforced
the urgency of moving quickly to a second generation of biofuels.
The gist of the two reports? Clearing
land for biofuel crops is a
bad idea.
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