May 2008 Archives

Ford Motor Company stepped up as the first car company to sign onto The Climate Registry. This non-profit, national clearinghouse of climate information aggregates mandated and self-reported data from a broad cross-section of industries, providing a single worldwide reporting standard.

Texas is the biggest wind energy producer in the U.S., but sending all this power where it's needed is an expensive and lengthy process. As the state prepares to string up thousands of miles of new transmission lines, wind energy developers in West Texas are licking their chops.

With foreclosure rates and fuel prices soaring, the time for more affordable green housing has come. Just how to bring the traditionally higher costs of sustainable building down, however, can be a tricky matter. But there are solutions on the horizon.

Just how extensive a carbon footprint will the 2008 Beijing Olympics leave behind? According to a senior official, measures are being put in place to ensure that the Olympics' emissions impact will be negligible.

The up-front investment required and negligible economic payoff has traditionally made upgrading to water-conserving fixtures a low priority for landlords. A new program provides just the incentive that some property owners need to make the move to more eco-friendly devices.

No longer the exclusive domain of the recreational rider, motorcycles are going mainstream, with more and more models benefiting from the same clean tech advances that have been boosting automobile MPG ratings in recent years.

Is the challenge of climate change best approached from the bargaining table or the boardroom? World leaders will convene again in 2009 to address global warming, but in the meantime companies across the industrial spectrum are stepping up with powerful initiatives of their own.

The population is rising steadily with no sign of slowing down. Traditional farming practices hold no hope of feeding the extra three billion people expected to live on the planet by the year 2050. A daunting prospect, with a fascinating potential solution: vertical farming.

Fast-growing, resilient, and incredibly adaptable, bamboo offers consumers and green builders alike a silver-bullet solution to many challenges of sustainability.

The menacing march of global warming may stall briefly over the next decade due to some naturally-occurring changes in ocean currents.