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Scientists are redeveloping one of Einstein's 1930 inventions, a refrigerator that could run without electricity and greenhouse gases.

Some 87 percent of investor relations professionals say they believe companies can improve long-term shareholder value through better carbon management -- reducing emissions that affect the environment -- and that communications technologies can help companies achieve their overall corporate social responsibility goals.  Those are among the key findings of a new study conducted by Verizon Business and IR magazine.

Mark C. Henderson just published a book which looks at large-scale strategies for the environment. He argues that current efforts will not be enough and that such approaches are our best hope for a green future.

In his view, simple economic policy changes could result in huge gains for the environment and possibly spark a green revolution.

Panelists discuss the technical and commercial state of carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems today, and their deployments in coming years to enable clean coal electrical generation plants. Panelists discuss the technologies - and the need for them -- from the scientific, technology, commercialization and financial perspectives.

Cow farts and pig farts are producing more grennhouse gases than cars and industry.

A "Green Contest" in Sweeden awarded a man a new bike for having what many think is the most "wasteful" drive to work every day.  This guys lives 200 meters from his work, and still instists on driving there EVERY DAY!

Loblaw, Canada’s leading retailer, has opened the country’s first superstore using a secondary CO2 system for low temperature refrigeration and space heating. The company and governmental partners are sure that the energy-efficient store will “change the face of Canadian grocery retail.”

With the introduction of a customizable offset program, TerraPass has taken carbon offsetting to a new level. Now customers can not only purchase offsets to reduce their carbon footprint but they can also direct the company's effort to offset projects of their choice...

Carbon Offsets Daily : When do you think the domestic voluntary carbon market will become a compliance market and how will that change affect the environment?

Japan, besides setting a 60-80% CO2 reduction goal (by 2050, not 2020 like environmentalists want), plans to launch a carbon market in autumn, which, if successful, could go global at some point in the future. Japan is the world's fifth-largest emitter. This move advances Japan's green agenda before hosting the G8 summit next month.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat. New Zealand scientists have developed a vaccine to cut down on livestock flatulence, which should help farmers avoid a proposed “flatulence tax” on the methane their livestock produces.

Looking for ways beyond changing lightbulbs and taking the train to help reduce your carbon footprint? Turns out we all could make a big difference in greenhouse gas emissions by not throwing out so much trash and composting our food waste.

David H. McCormick, the Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs, today announced that the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) will seek to raise $10 billion over the next three years. He said "We are aiming, along with our donor partners in the G-8 and beyond, at a global effort of up to $10 billion over the next three years with the U.S. as the lead donor."

Hundreds of the nation’s most prominent scientists and economists have issued a first-ever joint statement calling on policymakers to require immediate, deep reductions in heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming.

Years of legal wrangling have finally produced a long-awaited report on the current and potential effects of climate change on the U.S. And it should come as no surprise that regions already hurting — Alaska and the arid Southwest — are among the areas expected to feel the greatest pain from continued climate change in the future.

Nancy Young, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Air Transport Association, is interviewed about airline industry adoption of alternative fuels, from both fuel economy and environmental perspectives, as the industry looks to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

Vermont author, scholar and activist Bill McKibben sees the climate change challenge like this: we have 18 months — just 18 months — to pound a single number into the world’s collective head.

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If you think the virtual, online world helps reduce energy consumption in the real world (a topic we’ve touched on before here at Green Options Media), think again: a new study by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company provides scary insights into how Internet computing is devouring more and more power and spewing out more and more greenhouse gases.

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) renews his effort to take a new look at combating global climate change. In his speech to the Senate, Barrassostresses the importance of developing technology to remove existing excess green houses gases from the atmosphere andpermanently sequester them. The "Greenhouse Gas Emission Atmospheric Removal Act," or GEAR Act, will establish an award system for scientists andresearchers.

Very, very cool website.

A video showing the reality behind the Sunrise Powerlink. Crank up The Who's "We Don't Get Fooled Again" as you watch. Get the truth at www.sdsmartenergy.org, or any of the other websites listed at the end.

Malcolm Woolf, Director, Maryland Energy Administration, is interviewed about Maryland's experience with electric power deregulation, energy and environmentlegislation to come out of the 2008 session of the state legislature, and Maryland's involvement in a multi-state lawsuit against the federal government aimed at being able to regulate vehicle tailpipe emissions to control global climate change.

Like their neighbors in Carmel Valley, Rancho Penasquitos is also concerned about the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

It's not just Imperial County desert, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and San Diego's rural communities that will be degraded by the Sunrise Powerlink -- as if that weren't bad enough -- but San Diego's suburban neighborhoods and precious urban open spaces as well. The Sunrise Powerlink is destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary. Don't buy SDG&E's greenwashing campaign.

An article published online by the Center for Biological Diversity, full of details on why the Sunrise Powerlink isn't the clean, green, renewable-energy-delivering machine SDG&E makes it out to be.

A coalition of communities united to promote better alternatives to the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

A page on the website of the Anza-Borrego Foundation & Institute about how the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink would affect Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Surf from there to pages about programs in the park, classes for adults and children, and this spring's widlflower bloom.

One of the first websites devoted exclusively to stopping the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

The website of the Protect Our Communities Fund, one of the groups fighting to stave off the destructive, unnecessary, and anti-green Sunrise Powerlink. The group is centered around Santa Ysabel, Ranchita, Julian, Mesa Grande, and other communities in San Diego's backcountry.

A slideshow video from a San Diego activist showing some of the public lands and National Forests that would be destroyed by one routing of the proposed Sunrise Powerlink (the other route goes through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park). The text is a little hard to read, but the photos are beautiful. For more complete info on the Sunrise Powerlink, go to www.sdsmartenergy.org.