Collaboration / Emerging Technologies / Food & Farming / Purchasing Green / Sustainable Design
Are Livestock Responsible for 51% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Adam Stein, 16 Nov 09 New report makes questionable claim Conventional wisdom has it that meat production is responsible for about 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions - a shocking enough figure as it is. But lately a much higher number has been circulating, with...
The Pursuit of New Ways to Boost Solar Development
Yale Environment 360, 9 Nov 09 by Jon R. Luoma The solar power boom in Germany, Spain, and parts of the United States has been fueled by government subsidies. But now some U.S. states — led by New Jersey, of all places — are pioneering a...
Fairtrade is the Best Hope for India's Tea Producers
WorldChanging Team, 9 Nov 09 by Nick Mathiason The Chamraj estate in Tamil Nadu is thriving thanks to the Fairtrade Foundation - but the same cannot be said for the south Indian tea industry The price of basic farm commodities has been hammered over the...
The Future of Environmental Law Mapping
WorldChanging Team, 6 Nov 09 By Laurent Granier Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and mapping offer great opportunities for the transfer of legal data from books to maps. GIS applications have been evolving in many directions, well beyond geography. Many fields such as environmental economics, social...
High Entropy? Moi?
John Thackara, 2 Nov 09 When I first came to Tokyo, fashionable parts of the city would be lined with hundreds of heavy taxis sitting in queues with their engines running, for hours on end. Every powered item was always on, 24/7. Tokyo Metropolitan...
