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Top Five US Cities for Urban Homesteading
Where do urban homesteaders live? Where are they gathering? Using the Gallup Wellbeing Index as a jumping off point, here are the top five cities for happy homesteading.
Hydropower Continues Steady Growth
World hydroelectric power generation has risen steadily by an average 3 percent annually over the past four decades. In 2011, at 3,500 billion kilowatt-hours, hydroelectricity accounted for roughly 16 percent of global electricity generation, almost all produced by the world’s 45,000-plus large dams. Today hydropower is generated in over 160 countries.
Time to Slap a Tariff on Chinese Solar Panels?
Cheap Chinese solar panels are great for installers, but present a challenge for US solar manufacturers. Is it time to put a tariff on panels from China in order to level the playing field?
5 Successful Reforestation Projects
Between the Arab Spring, the weird weather, and, well, the Casey Anthony trial, you may have missed the fact that 2011 was proclaimed “The International Year of Forests” by the [ … ]
Bus Travel: the Conscientious Choice?
Coach/bus travel on the whole has a bit of a poor reputation: you may envision a miserable journey on a Megabus or National Express (or Greyhound or Trailways) with only [ … ]
Good News: US Solar Power to Double in 2010
Editor’s note: Not sure why this post got pulled back into the pending queue yesterday… apologies if you clicked through and got an error page. In light of mid-October’s Solar [ … ]
Raising Appliance Efficiency: A Big Win for Consumers and the Climate
By Lester R. Brown There are enormous opportunities to use energy more efficiently. Investing in energy efficiency is often far cheaper than expanding the energy supply to meet growing demand. [ … ]
US Army Releases First Annual Sustainability Report
[social_buttons]Is sustainability a national security issue? Politicians, policy makers and academics may be willing to argue sides of that question, but for the U.S. Army, the answer seems to be [ … ]
Exxon Oil and Gas Project to Face Russian Legal Challenge Over Endangered Whales
Russian environmental groups have today launched a legal challenge against a consortium led by U.S. oil and gas giant Exxon, for threatening critically endangered whales in the far east of [ … ]
Towards a (Re)Definition of Sustainability: Justin Van Kleeck and Caroline Savery. 4-Caroline
Dear Justin, You make some very effective arguments! You are right to use my own posts in illustrating your thoughts. Granted, those posts, written toward the end of the Sust [ … ]
Widespread Sustainable Consumerism is More Vital Than Taking Individual Actions
Perhaps no one knows better than I do what it means to take individual responsibility for my environmental impact. For those of you familiar with my blog, you know that [ … ]
Environmental Defense: A Clean Energy Future? Global Warming by the Numbers
Global warming is the most serious environmental threat of our time. As these facts show, affordable options are available. And America cannot afford to fall behind any more in the [ … ]