EPA actually does have some mostly useful tools which we conspicuously fail to advertise well (sigh).

So, here's what I figure are the economic and environmental gains from selling off my VW Golf for a Smart ForTwo coupe.

Fuel economy: improve by 12 mpg; reduce gallons consumed per 100 miles by 1.39 gallons (33% savings)

Estimated annual fuel ( Read more... )

Good to see, and he's still preaching the right message.

In previous years, the focus of the Spare the Air Program has been to lessen our contribution to pollution on days when air quality is forecast to be unhealthy. However, reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change takes a daily effort. So this year, in addition to taking action when a Spare the Air advisory is issued, ( Read more... )

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/26/BUCN10C1KR.DTLRead more... )

Europe's return to coal.

James Hansen's recent paper on the subject of atmospheric carbon-dioxide targets. He sets specific policy suggestions about what we should be doing about coal, as well as afforestation. To my mind, this suggests the need to get owners of coal seams to earn more money by keeping it in the ground, than to mine it.

His ( Read more... )

So, a friend sent around a (spam/bandwith vampire) e-mail I had seen before, and at my prompting, she double-checked and found that there were a lot of problems with it.

The original e-mail: ( Read more... )

WWF's Earth Hour - join communities all across the world who will be switching off all unnecessary lighting for one hour, 8pm to 9pm, this Saturday 29 March, 2008.

En Espanol: aqui.

What you can do for an hour with the lights out/que puedes hacer durante una hora sin la luzFor my part, I plan to tell the neighbors, and switch out my first burnt- ( Read more... )

Thank you New Scientist, for this lovely tool!

coalescent blogs a quote from John Lanchester's LRB piece on global warming.

The UK government announces a renewed life for nuclear power.

Anti-nuclear greyhairs are searching their closets for whistles, drums, and banners.

What then is next?

My tuppence: ( Read more... )

As reported by Environmental Defence.

Confirmed by EPA press release here.

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California's climate change emissions control regulations factsheet - California's regulations bundle the various vehicle emissions into C02-equivalent, then lay out phased reductions of first 22% from 2009-2012 ( Read more... )