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This post was written by Rob Reed. He is the founder of MomentFeed, a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm. GlobalWarmingisReal is participating in a simultaneous publication of this post with many other like-minded online publishers.
Continue Reading 10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World
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Michael Brune, the new executive director for the Sierra Club, spoke yesterday at an international gathering of renewable energy entrepreneurs, policy experts, and advocates. In his remarks, Brune spoke of his most moving image yet of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf. It’s a moving and heartbreaking story, but from disaster comes opportunity. Brune message yesterday was not only of tragedy but also of solutions: sustainable development, electrifying transportation, and the the “three R’s”: retiring coal (and eventually all fossil energy), replacing coal generation with renewable sources of energy and rejuvenating the beleaguered economy in the process. The following podcast is edited from his remarks:
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They are fast becoming the ghost towns of the 21st century, places like the southern California exoburb of Victorville, built around the car and an endless supply of cheap gas for the 50-mile drive to work and the 5-mile drive to the supermarket.
Continue Reading Sustainable Development: The Modern Day Ghost Town and the Future of the City
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EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: What does it mean when one uses the phrase, “building a green economy?” I’ve heard it repeated a few times lately and would like to have a better understanding of the concept. – Rosie Chang, Islip, NY
Continue Reading EarthTalk: Building the Green Economy
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Now that the U.S. is out of the World Cup, how can we maintain that fragile unity that we began to feel while watching our team play? Perhaps, global warming is the answer.
Continue Reading A Game With Heart: Soccer and Global Warming
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The “Road to Cancun” moves haltingly forward with the conclusion last Friday of the United Nations climate talks in Bonn.
According to a UN press release, the two-week negotiating session made “important progress towards concluding what was left incomplete at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009”.
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The call to live in harmony with nature is a plea of green pioneers throughout history such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Ecopsychology began in the company of these good men. They worked politically, practically and poetically in service of the sanity, sustainability and social connectivity that comes from traversing the liminal space between the city and the wilderness.
Continue Reading Ecological Pioneers: Founders of Ecopsychology
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By Jack Lundee
follower of all things green and progressive
Emission reduction, green spaces, and renewable energy are some of the most talked about topics of the 21st century. With the recent passing of Earth Day, and the undying rally for improved green efforts worldwide, some industry giants are making a large footprint.
Continue Reading Google Goes Green with Wind Turbine Investment
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LED lighting is becoming all the rage, from forward-thinking municipalities converting their traffic and street lighting to the efficiency of LED fixtures, right down to the desk lamp here on my desk.
Continue Reading LED vs. Fluorescent Lighting – Are LED Tubes Ready for Prime Time? Take the Survey
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
(reposted with permission)
On Monday, climate activists, nonprofit leaders, and governmental officials will gather in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to look for new ideas to address climate change. The conference, organized by leading social organizations like 350.0rg, “will advocate the right to “live well,” as opposed to the economic principle of uninterrupted growth,” as Inter Press Service explains. In the absence of real leadership from the world’s governments, the conferees at Cochabamba are looking for solutions “committed to the rights of people and environment.”
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