This analysis & posting by Michael Graham Richard of TreeHugger shows us where we are headed with our addiction to burning fossil carbon. Total World Coal Consumption in 2008: 7,238,207,000 Short Tons! When it comes to global warming and air pollution, coal is the number one enemy. We were curious to know which countries burned [...]

By Bob Williamson Recently I read a report ‘Europe finds clean energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags’ printed in the New York Times. It featured Denmark where its 29 advanced waste incineration plants are now providing electricity and what they claim ‘reducing carbon dioxide emissions’. Around 2003 I attended a waste management conference and was [...]

I have learnt that in gaining policy support in politics, it’s either GOOD politics to support it, or BAD politics if you don’t. Why would politicians NOT support a policy to ban the plastic bag world wide? You haven’t made good policy on banning the bag, either good politics or bad. Yet I know, and [...]

As covered in the book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions ‘Since first recorded in 1970 ocean dead zones have been on a dramatic increase, doubling in each decade from recorded areas in the 90’s to 150 in 2003, some stretching 70,000 square kilometers. The United Nations reports over the following two years 2003–2005 estimates were of 200. [...]

A stirring if not confronting question from U2 on the state of our world and how we treat it. Want a weekly update of all the greatest posts on the web? Subscribe for the weekly VOICE FOR CHANGE Newsletter and never miss a story! CLICK Bob Williamson and in the subject line type SUBSCRIBE var [...]

As if there weren’t enough problems for the ocean such as acidification which threatens to eradicate all crustaceans over the next 40 years, the pacific gyre garbage patch is such a bleak and immense problem, that at first glance, one can’t help but wish it wasn’t really true. Come aboard as the VBS crew takes a [...]

Putting a price on nature becomes meaningless if we treat the ecosystems upon which we depend as mere commodities with a price for trading The economy is no stranger to creating its own fantasy world with little or no relation to the real one. We witnessed the damage that can cause when the banks thought [...]

Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades. Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development 30 million tonnes [...]

The first ever national survey of pollution in China shows a nation that has paid for its economic growth in environmental pollution. Measuring nearly six million sources of pollution in China, experts say that in 2007 alone the nation dumped 30.3 million metric tons of pollutants into its water. Doubling official government figures, these measurements [...]

The final judgment is imminent after a long legal battle between oil giant Chevron and brave indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, who are seeking redress for the multinational’s dumping of billions of gallons of toxic waste in the rainforest. If Chevron is forced to pay billions in damages, it’ll be a big step forward [...]