12 October 2011

Image credit: Land Rover Our Planet, used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote about the new UK Carbon Reporting Framework which connects potential project funders with CO2-cutting initiatives, I noted that they were not calling it offsets. In fact, since the heady days of 2007 when protesters were occupying offset companies' ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

12 October 2011

Photo: B. Alter, Wall, October, 2011 A picture by Van Gogh, interpreted as a green wall at the National Gallery in London, was planted in June. Now it is mid-October, and sadly, the wall is due to be pulled down at the end of the month. So how has it done over the summer of rain, more rain and more rain...... Read the full story on TreeHugger

11 October 2011

Photo: Flickr, CC Madness! And I don't mean the British band... The corn ethanol supporters are probably not very familiar with the concept of opportunity cost. Either that, or the subsidies and high corn prices are just to juicy to give up. Only about 20% of all the corn grown in the U.S. now goes to feed humans directly, and more than half of what remains is now being turned into ethanol fuel while the other half goes to feed livestock. The problem is that life-cycle studies show that corn ethanol ranges from barely bette... Read the full story on TreeHugger

11 October 2011

A little over a year ago, Alex wrote about David Breashears' Rivers of Ice project, which documents how glaciers are receding. The BBC has a very cool slideshow that gives you a narrated tour of various glaciers and how they have evolved (devolved?) over the past decades. It looks great, and shows a large-scale effect of global warming. Kudos to David Breashears and his team! Vi... Read the full story on TreeHugger