Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
In January it seems there are two things on almost everybody’s minds: New Year’s resolutions and shopping. These may seem hard to reconcile, but with the growing market of ‘green’ and ethical consumer products, it may actually be possible to combine the two and put your money where your mouth is in terms of those good intentions. Some of the most exciting developments for environmentally aware consumers in 2008 will sur Read the rest of this entry »

Biofuels. What a great name! It just sounds green. Looking around I see a proliferation of Biodiesel bumper stickers everywhere I look. In my home state of Oregon all filling stations will be required to add at least 10 % ethanol to all gasoline by next year. Environmentalists are cheering as politicians and the media are jumping onto the Biofuel bandwagon. Sounds like a big win for the environment and society – think again, in Read the rest of this entry »
Jatropha Curcas is regarded as an excellent bio-fuel crop with many advantages over existing crops. Corn and rice are common bio-fuel crops, but they are also essential worldwide food crops, producing relatively low yield and requiring the use of good quality arable farmland.
Jatropha, by comparison, provides excellent yield (twice that of rice, as measured in barrels of oil per square mile per year, and ten times that of Read the rest of this entry »
The best method of educating young people about alternative energy production that this writer has ever witnessed is the use of the PicoTurbine Company’s kits, books, and projects. The PicoTurbine Company produces these things for the purpose of advancing the cause of renewable (alternative) energy and getting young people to look into the future and see that the environment that’s being seeded now is the one they will inherit t Read the rest of this entry »
Green Energy in Emerging Economies: Renewable investment, capacity growth, and future outlook
Rapid growth in economy and energy consumption in non-OECD countries will need an expansion in the power generation market. Governments will increasingly be looking to develop renewable energies to avoid power shortages that would stunt development and therefore mitigate government objectives of raising living standards. Read the rest of this entry »