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Arctic Sea Ice Second-Lowest Ever
9/7/2008
Arctic sea ice shrank to its second-lowest level ever, US scientists say, with particular melting in the Chukchi Sea, where polar bears were recently seen swimming far off the Alaskan coast.
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Mobile Phone Software Tracks Your CO2
9/7/2008
A new mobile phone software has been created that allows users to use smart phones to track and reduce mobile carbon footprints.
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Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grids Limits
9/7/2008
Dirty secret of clean energy - while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.
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Oil Mogul Pushes for Wind Power
8/4/2008
T. Boone Pickens, American business man who chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management, says drilling for oil is not the answer. "A nation holding less than 3% of the world's oil reserves while guzzling 20% of the world's production will never be able to drill its way out of its dependency on foreign oil. His answer is surprising - wind power!
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MIT Develops Way to Bank Solar Energy at Home
8/4/2008
A US scientist has developed a new way of powering fuel cells that could make it practical for home owners to store solar energy and produce electricity to run lights and appliances at night.
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Solar "Trees" Help Light Streets
8/4/2008
Going green can do more than protect the environment. Solar-powered streetlamps also serve as pieces of modern art.
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Indianapolis Company Goes Green with Wind Power
7/20/2008
The Time Factory, a corporation on the leading edge of environmental awareness and energy efficiency, to host Wind Turbine event.
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Bridging the Gap on Climate Change
7/20/2008
Senator Richard Lugar and Henry Paulson Jr., secretary of the Treasury, encourage other politicians to support multilateral initiative to help finance the deployment of commercially available clean technology to the developing world.
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Penguin Populations Plunge
7/20/2008
Penguin populations have plummeted at a key breeding colony in Argentina mirroring declines in many species of the marine flightless birds due to climate change, pollution and other factors, a study shows.
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Extreme Weather on the Rise
7/3/2008
Floods, droughts and severe storms are likely to occur even more frequently in North America as a result of the increase of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a U.S. government study.
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A Green Coal Baron?
7/3/2008
Chief Executive of Duke Energy, Jim Rogers, is not your typical power company CEO. He lives to brainstorm about clean energy technologies. And his latest idea is pretty radical...
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Humans Still Loading Climate Dice
7/3/2008
Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies revisits his startling testimony he gave before the Senate Energy Committee in 1988 - that the buildup of CO2 and other greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and forests was already influencing Earth's climate. Watch his interview.
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Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal
6/20/2008
Just what is clean coal? As strange as it may sound, it involves taking the carbon dioxide emitted from coal-burning power plants and pumping it back into the ground. Sounds easy enough, right? But find out what some of the biggest obstacles are.
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U.S. Climate Bill Dies; Hope for 2009
6/20/2008
On June 6th, a U.S. bill aimed at curbing climate change died in the Senate. But there is still hope as the bill's supporters look to the next president to enact a climate change law as soon as 2009.
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Melting Arctic Ice Could Spur Inland Warming
6/20/2008
Think polar bears are the only ones to feel the effects of climate change? Think again. A study released on June 10, 2008 suggests it could cause warmer temperatures hundreds of miles inland.
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Lowe's Partners with the Zoo
4/18/2008
The Zoo is very pleased to partner with Lowe’s on mycarbonpledge.com. Lowe’s is the primary partner of the site. “This will truly be the greatest partnership I have come across in my years at Lowe’s….and the difference we will make together will be PHENOMENAL,” says Priscilla Woodrum, District Manager for Lowe’s.
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