When listening to the writings of George Harrison and others inspired to ask why;  we should ask when? When will we stop, listen and learn? Thanks to all the great musicians who put their hearts and souls into this song and tribute to a man pure of heart who has gone but will never be forgotten. [...]

Products, Packaging and US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Joshua Stolaroff, PhD EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper builds on a new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Materials and Land Management Practices,” which offers new insight into the impact of products and packaging on climate change. Based on the [...]

In what the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation sees as a complete copout the EU has bailed on reducing its emissions for the worst case polluting industries. Experts from the 27-member bloc agreed on a list of industries ranging from plastics manufacturing to iron and food processing that will be largely exempted from CO2 trading after 2013 for [...]

THERE is a pervading myth that efforts to fight climate change and other environmental perils will be to no avail unless we “do something about population growth” Even seasoned analysts talk about the threat of “exponential” population growth. But there is no exponential growth. In most of the world fertility rates are falling fast, and [...]

BUENOS AIRES, Sep 18 (IPS) – “Desertification is the cancer of the earth,” Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS. “It is a process of degradation that does not manifest itself in spectacular ways but furtively advances, and by the time it is visible there is nothing to be done, and people have to move away, [...]

BENEATH the shimmering surface of Africa’s Lake Kivu, a deadly time bomb awaits. A “gold rush” to extract valuable methane from the lake’s depths might trigger an outburst of gas that could wash a deadly, suffocating blanket over the 2 million people who live around Kivu’s shores. Like Nyos, Lake Kivu is permanently stratified: a [...]

It could be the most crucial question we face today: just what is China’s climate change strategy? What is China playing at on climate change? That may be the most important question in the world right now, thanks alone to its status as the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gasses. But what Beijing is – [...]