]> http://www.greenedia.com/latest Research and Studies Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190203?rsstype=latest&cid=63 As you may have gathered, the idea of city-wide carbon neutrality by 2030 has gained a lot of steam here in Worldchanging's home base of Seattle. Our City Council has embraced it as a goal (though it's wrestling with the timeline) and some of our... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:54:21 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190203?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190037?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Another op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg, another Gish Gallup of non-stop disinformation. The good news is that the task of debunking the Septical Environmentalist (sic), has been made easier by the publication of whole book dedicated to that tedious task, T... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:48:30 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190037?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189840?rsstype=latest&cid=63 The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is calling for US Federal policies to nurture the biobased chemicals and plastics industry in the US as a means to offset the two-decade-long shift of the industry away from the US and towards the Middle ... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:24:21 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189840?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189842?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Drivers of alternate fueled vehicles, hybrids and fuel-efficient, gasoline-powered cars will have two opportunities to test their vehicles at the 6th Annual Green Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, NY on 8 May. This year, organizers are offering the event's... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:23:28 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189842?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190038?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Another vote, another win for the conservative majority on Texas' State Board of Education.Science is in a street fight with anti-science, as Nature has argued. Now the forces of the dark ages are taking on the Enlightenment itself.As the NYT repor... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:35:57 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190038?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189843?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Effect of different catalysts with jat/cat weight ratio = 10. The platinum-rhenium catalyst showed the highest conversion, along with high selectivity for C18. Credit: ACS, Murata et al. Click to enlarge.Researchers at Japan's National Institute of... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:14:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189843?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189844?rsstype=latest&cid=63 A research team from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany has found that deceased solar activity until the end of this century would only slightly scale down the global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:33:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189844?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189821?rsstype=latest&cid=63 The Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina is a chain of thin, low barrier islands with a low sand supply. Sea level rise is already narrowing the width of the islands (by shoreline erosion on both sides). Thanks to a lifetime of studies b... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:18:44 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189821?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/190165?rsstype=latest&cid=63 A new Gallup poll shows that compared to three years ago, twice as many Americans believe that global warming's consequences are exaggerated.And in just the last year, there has been an increase in skepticism from 41% to 48%.The chart above shows a n... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:06:01 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/190165?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189728?rsstype=latest&cid=63 A good friend asked me the title question for this blog during the week. The question intrigued me enough to encourage some digging and computations. I would be interested in any questions that you have about the assumptions.Based on reading a number... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:15:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189728?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190040?rsstype=latest&cid=63 You can't save daylight by moving around the hands on your clock, of course. So daylight saving time remains as absurdly named as it ever was.The general pointlessness of DST was the subject of a Rachel Maddow interview Friday (video below) with the ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:44:57 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190040?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189847?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Average new car CO2 emissions in the UK fell by their biggest ever margin last year with the impact of recession and the Scrappage Incentive Scheme boosting the continued influence of technological advances made by vehicle manufacturers, according to... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189847?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/190142?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Filed under: Ethanol, Flex-Fuel, Bentley2010 Bentley Continental Supersports - Click above for high-res image galleryIt may not be the most interesting news you read all week, but we now have a date at which all Bentley Continentals will be able to g... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/190142?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189848?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Since 1990, nationwide air quality has improved significantly for the six common air pollutants: ground-level ozone; particle pollution; lead; nitrogen dioxide; carbon monoxide; and sulfur dioxide, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189848?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189883?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Earlier in the week Barry Ritholtz posted this chart from Bronson Capital Markets Research. It shows 139 years of nominal returns for equities (probably somewhat familiar to you) along with 139 years of real returns.The real return component is calle... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:26:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189883?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190041?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) wants to pay for nuclear loan guarantees and clean energy incentives in exchange for one of our most precious natural treasures, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Kristen Miller of the Alaska Wilderness League has the ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:16:19 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190041?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189852?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway and other Marine and Navy leaders recently toured technical demonstrations by nearly 30 commercial vendors at the first Experimental Forward Operating Base (ExFOB) at Marine Corps Base Quantico. Conway has... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:30:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189852?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/190218?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Think of electrons as flotsam on a wave as it moves across the surface of the ocean. That's how scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describe a previously unknown phenomenon, which they are calling thermopower waves. A ther... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:17:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/190218?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189970?rsstype=latest&cid=63 Our friends at the Mid-South Chapter of the National Algae Association are holding another seminar. This time the talk will be Algae: Mining Wastewater for Nutrients, Fuel, and Fertilizer at the Holiday Inn Research Center in Huntsville, Alaba... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:26:27 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189970?rsstype=latest&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189971?rsstype=latest&cid=63 There's only one week left to get the early registration discount for the Ethanol 2010: Emerging Issues Forum. The event will be held at the Magnolia Hotel on April 8 and 9 in Omaha, Nebraska. The fifth annual forum features a number of experts on to... 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