Archive for November, 2006

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, a new study from the Global Carbon Project found a sharp acceleration of human carbon emissions. Up until the year 2000, global carbon emissions rose annually 1%. Now the emissions are rising at 2.5% per year.

While these percentages seem small, consider that in 2000 we emitted 6.8 billion tons (gigatons, Gt) of carbon and 2005’s total was 7.9 Gt.

Yet another reminder that we as a planet have some serious work to do.

For further reading, check out the BBC article on this carbon emission study.

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Posted by Tim Roth, author of the political blog Think Anew and Act Anew

Leventhorpe school in Sawbridgeworth has decided to lead the way when it comes to communities going green. They’ve decided to install a wind turbine to help power the school.

The turbing will produce enough electricity to power three family homes which will save the school 1,200 pounds a year. That’s 14,000 kWh of electricity within the shool year making this school one of the first and hopefully not the last.

The cost to install one of these turbines at a school like Leventhorpe is 20,000 pounds. The students determined that in the first month of service they created enough energy to toast 24,371 pieces of bread! That’s a lotta toast. Hope it’s a big school.

technorati tags:Wind, Power, London, Leventhorpe, Alternative, Energy

The democratic party has long been “green” with their poster-child Al Gore and their truly “grass-roots” campaigning. But can they clean up the mess that has been allowed recently, with big oil seemingly running amuck all over the place and no end in site.

Weblogs Inc, AutoblogGreen feels that Pelosi and company are going to need to step up more than they’ve first shown to really makes some noise in this sector. Although Pelosi has said she wants to “roll back the multibillion dollar subsidies for Big Oil,” they seem to be starting out slow.

With less than 3 weeks passing by since the tables turned we’d like to give them at least til the end of the year to make some noise against Big Oil. We’ll be keeping our ears open to any breaking news on this multibillion dollar rollback and let you know as soon as we hear it.

technorati tags:Oil, Energy, Pelosi, Democrats

We just got wind of an interesting news tid-bit from The Washington Times that says the California based punk/rock/alternative group Green Day is joining the fight for renewable energy.

The popular band is combining forces with the Natural Resources Defense Council to help educate youngsters about clean, renewable energy resources.

As quoted from WT,

“This campaign is about channeling the power of millions into somethingpositive and powerful,” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said.”People are sick of our oil addiction and feel like nobody is doinganything about it.”

And you can check out more at www.greendaynrdc.com

technorati tags:Green, Day, Oil, Resource, Renewable, Energy