This has been submitted to the Lake County Record-Bee It’s Not Easy Being Green: The Top Five Green Stories for 2012 Tis the season for looking back on the previous year; here are my picks for 2012’s top environmental stories plus a bonus story: 1. California’s Cap and Trade Program Begins. As U.S. CO2 emissionsContinue reading “It’s Not Easy Being Green: The Top Five Green Stories for 2012”
Tag Archives: Greenhouse gas
What the Frack? U.S. CO2 Output the Lowest in 20 years.
“The best is the enemy of good.” – Voltaire Good news travels slowly, if at all. Given headlines of the century you might think that good news does not exist. A newspaper will not stay in business without readers—and they need drama to get readers—so even good news often gets described as bad news. AtContinue reading “What the Frack? U.S. CO2 Output the Lowest in 20 years.”
Biofuel: Exacerbating the Food Crisis
The percentage of deaths related to malnutrition have declined over the past 40 years. In 1970, approximately 33% of the developing world was malnourished. In 2010, approximately 20% of the developing world is poorly nourished. If we were to put our concern toward micro and macro nutrition and less emphasis on greenhouse gas output, theContinue reading “Biofuel: Exacerbating the Food Crisis”
Making money out of thin air
What do the South Seas Company and carbon exchanges have in common? A desire to make money from an idea.
California’s Deforestation Due to Wildfire
This is a map of the National Forests in California. These forests comprise about half of the forestland in California. The Forest Service graphic below shows the results of the 2000-2009 fire season in California. About 1% of California’s fires chalk up 90% of the total acreage burned. Half a million acres that had theContinue reading “California’s Deforestation Due to Wildfire”
Nullius in Verba 