Category Archives: Climate Change

some WD-40 with *YOUR* craw fish?

By AKB | Published: June 9, 2010
ATTN: Please don’t read this post if you are unable to think for yourself. 3.5 million gallons of crude (the approximate total amount spilled so far 06/09/2010) is less than 0.5% of our country’s daily oil consumption. The total amount of oil spilled is a tiny amount relative to how much we consume in the US [...]
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Enviros approve next generation coal plant

By melissalott | Published: April 20, 2010
Success for clean coal with enviros approval of next gen coal plant? On Friday, Amanda wrote a piece on new technology that might make carbon capture and sequestration economically viable in the near-term. Yesterday’s announcement by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and  Tenaska Inc. show the importance of this type of win for the future of [...]
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Economic CO2 Capture… GASP!

By ADC | Published: April 16, 2010
As the largest source of CO2 emissions in the United States, scientists have long sought a process to clean up the coal-fired power industry. Unfortunately the solutions to capture and sequester carbon have yet to be economically feasible without the government placing a hefty price on carbon emissions. The new Silicon Valley start-up, Calera, claims [...]
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Carbon Cycle

By AKB | Published: September 23, 2009
This article is about carbon and how it moves around our planet. Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe and the basic building block for all life. Carbon atoms are everywhere – the stone we walk on, the CO2 our bodies produce and release into the air, the backbone of polymers, and [...]
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What’s a Locavore to do?

By ADC | Published: September 14, 2009
To start off with, I will define the term “locavore”. A locavore is intent on purchasing only (or as much as possible) locally produced food believing that minimizing food-miles (the distance food has to travel to your table) will in turn reduce energy consumption and save the planet. This belief has caught on in eco-conscious [...]
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