The race towards building a world not dependant on fossil fuels has a powerful, but silent ally in the global military apparatus.
For the Pentagon, clean energy and sustainability isn’t about saving whales or hugging trees. It’s about improving combat efficiency.
Not only does the reliance on foss...
When Philip Go Apostol returned to the Philippines in March 2008, he was supposed to assume a prime position for an international bank, in its local office in Makati City.
Apostol had then decided to leave his cushy work life in Europe, at a time when he was building the corporate finance advisory ...
Take away the haze of air pollution and Waterfront Corso Mansions near Tianjin might seem like an urban idyll for China's growing population of city dwellers.
Inside a gated compound, residential towers and houses overlook a lake and manicured gardens. What's missing from the neighborhood are shops...
Is typhoon Haiyan linked to climate change?
As the devastating storm has only just happened, it is too soon for any research to have been done on whether global warming influenced typhoon Haiyan. But there are good reasons for expecting that it has (see below). Furthermore, the tools...
Restoring ocean fisheries in 24 countries could provide a meal for close to a billion people a day. New Englanders can also help ocean ecosystems recover by eating wild fish, choosing small fish, buying fish from the United States and eating mollusks, according to Andrew Sharpless, CEO ofOceana.He a...
From the war on rhinos to colony collapse disorder, the global picture for wildlife conservation does not look good.
But there are bright spots.
The BBC reports on a new study that suggests many European species of animals and birds have seen their numbers rebound dramatically. And that recovery h...
Once a rare delicacy served to honored guests, shark fin soup had become so popular among China's fast-growing elite in recent years that it was pushing some shark species close to extinction.
Now, there is fresh hope for sharks around the world. The demand for shark fins has plunged, providing a r...
Xcel Energy seeks power from forest waste in Colorado
By Steve Raabe
The Denver Post
Xcel Energy wants to pursue a demonstration project that would deliver electricity made from forest waste, according to a filing made Monday to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
The demonstration-scale b...
What if we could turn food into minerals? Could it be enough to stop mining? Colorado School of the Mines thinks they may have found that solution! Check it out!
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado School of Mines engineers have found an alternative to digging into mountain...
The real issues facing our country lurk in the shadows, blissfully ignored while impacting every one of us.
Chief among these issues is overpopulation. Just how big a problem is it? Centuries ago, Thomas Malthus warned about what could happen if populations were left to grow unchecked.
Urban...
Some of the world's most vulnerable creatures could be wiped out if a highway through the Haparan rainforest is approved
Critically endangered wildlife, including some of the last Sumatran tigers as well as rhinos, bears and eagles, could be wiped out if plans go ahead to construct a major road thr...
Ione Teitiota became the first person to ask a court to grant refugee status on the basis of climate change. He told the High Court in New Zealand that his family would suffer serious harm if they were forced to return to their low-lying homeland, as sea level rise is projected make life there unten...
Video - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Let's Learn to recycle and teach kids to create a sustainable future by doing the right thing. Each day billions of useful materials are thrown into landfills and important metals, paper and other things are thrown away. Stop wasting and start recycling today! Y...
By LOHASIA Team Posted on November 04, 2013
How Far Does The Rabbit Hole Go?
Hands up who has fallen down a YouTube hole only to discover that you've lost 2 hours of your day watching everything from breakbeat dancing cats to cute babies and the latest viral ad sensation?
Watching vid...
Cambridge —
It’s for good reason Boston and Cambridge have earned strong reputations as leaders in sustainable building practices. In 2007, Boston amended its zoning code to become the first city in the nation to require LEED standards for all large-scale development projects. Cambridge followed su...
The environmental movement has advised us to reduce our eating of animal products (especially red meat and dairy) or, better still, become vegetarians.
For instance, the Australian Conservation Foundation, on its GreenHome website, advises this. So does Beyond Zero Emissions, although it thinks a s...
On Oct. 22, Apple released the latest iPad, but rival Samsung doesn’t seem to be too worried. The same day, Samsung Semiconductor held a memory solution forum at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Industry leaders Cisco, eBay, Qualcomm, and others came together to discuss challenges and ...
Ecology: Greenpeace Australia is adding their weight to the New Zealand Shark Alliance's campaign to ban shark finning in New Zealand.
David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia, has chimed in on the controversy saying that Australians can help sway the New Zealand government into enacting laws...
By JUSTIN GILLISPublished in the New York TimesSeptember 27, 2013
STOCKHOLM — The world’s top climate scientists on Friday formally embraced an upper limit on greenhouse gases for the first time, establishing a target level at which humanity must stop spewing them into the atmosphere or face i...
A recent study says the infrastructure that allows us to light up our homes and travel from place to place delivers the majority of air pollution-related deaths in the United States.
The MIT study found that the two major sources of PM2.5 and ozone air pollution are road transportation and power ge...
