along with a new 27-meter long garland above the interior stairway to promote his message of recycling and environmental consciousness.
 This is the third year that Peltier has mounted the installation in a different part of the city, this year in the trendy Marais neighborhood.
to minimize the impact on the environment, Â he said. His Christmas trees demonstrate his mission.
Environmental impact? Local leadership? DC: I don't really think I can prioritize them, but from a dollar standpoint, the volatility for energy today is a real strain for us.
you can't do that with wind. We really look at this as substantial technology--Â technology that is economically manageable today without government handouts
With the Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge (BNEC), the city is partnering with the Baltimore Community Foundation and Constellation Energy to do energy audits,
Were reaching out to about a dozen neighborhoods and getting a neighbor-to-neighbor thing going.
Roy Deitchman, Amtrak vice president of environmental, health and safety, in a statement: Amtrak travel is already more energy efficient than most other forms of intercity transportation.
But it's a stormy mix of policy and theory that clouds the debate. Patel reports:
siphoning grains from the bowls of the poorest into the gas-tanks of the richest--with limited environmental gains, at best.
while the CGBA provides the appropriate environment. In our office, we have a payload operations and command center.
Algae can impact our environment, consumer electronics, cars, military--you name it. But the debate really comes down to this:
Bringing the cloud to the farmthe beautiful vistas of the heartland are hardly short on clouds,
Cloud startups have served largely their own industry--technology--first, but increasingly they are specializing and expanding into industry verticals.
As an environment that sustains them, they treat the land as a fundamental part of their wellbeing.
youd better not tell that to Julie Weatherhead, an Indigenous food expert and environmental scientist.
An ecologist with a degree in environmental science and education, Weatherhead dedicates an area of the farm as her Å Living Classroom Â,
An exhibition view of Foreclosed at Moma During the summer of 2011, the architecture firms MOS, Studio Gang Architects, Â Visible Weather, Â WORKAC,
Similarly, Visible Weather, which worked to remake Temple Terrace, Florida, near Tampa, calls for adding three types of buildings in the suburb.
in vertical neighborhoods--which seems like a fancy euphemism for apartment buildings. And they have included environmental designs such as adding gardens in foreclosed factory sites.
Also interested in encouraging a more natural atmosphere in its design solution for struggling suburbs,
WORKAC's design shifts the existing proportion of built environment and natural environment in Keizer, remaking it
so it is five times more dense than current suburban blocks, but increases the amount of public space threefold.
hopefully surviving for one more rainfall. If they work as advertised, the varieties could be quite useful in droughts of low to moderate intensity.
I'm reminded of college ecology lectures on how we can't innovate our way out of climate change.
I agree with that message--pro-active measures to fight climate change should be prioritized --but that doesn't remove the fact that these droughts are happening
Was it selectively cut or clearcut with all its woody neighbors? Where's it heading now?
Brazil's deforestation rate has slowed since the 1990s when it (and Indonesia) had the highest rates in the world.
health and environmental concerns; and new product materials such as soy, corn and mushrooms. Moderator Lance Hosey, president and CEO of Greenblue (a nonprofit focused on sustainable design and production in business and industry) started off the discussion by telling us that we produce some 300 billion pounds of plastic a year
Theres an interesting issue about durability in the physical environment and the desire for that--like what vinyl siding does so well
Green chemistry is all about thinking about end of life considerations before you design the molecule and put it into the environment.
what would neighbours say. Â The family at first refused to touch the stuff and permission to use any of the utensils was granted not.
from all over the country, are spread out like a colorful bedspread under the open sky. But one sign catches the eyes a big elephant bottom with a cute curly tail that reads Å made using only the finest dung available in India.
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth,
Clean energy technologies can positively impact the environment the same way that automobiles did. Not that cars don't produce smog,
of course--but the major environmental pollution problem at the turn of the century was the millions of pounds of manure in city streets produced by horses used for transport.
At the time, gasoline-powered vehicles provided clean streets, Chu said. Now we have another environmental problem,
he said of pollution and greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. It may not be quite as visible or an assault on our senses as horse manure
The company, formed two years ago by industrial enzyme maker Novozymes and Cleanstar Ventures, is tackling an economic, environmental and public health problem in Africa.
is piloting an environmental monitoring system that helps agribusiness concerns be smarter about how much water they use.
The hope is that the World bank can play a central role in streamlining the application process for climate projects.
The World bank agreement with the C40 will give cities one window  access to receive funding through climate investment funds,
and in providing technical expertise for climate programs, Zoellick said. For too many people living in cities, frequent floods and landslides are already a fact of life,
 Zoellick said. Climate change will make this worse. We must put cities on the front line of the struggle to adapt.
 Is this the smarter way to reverse human impact on the atmosphere? It appears so.
hypothesizing that cloning might offer a technological solution to environmental crises. It's an idea that
I imagine could sound ingeniously appealing to certain people with some overly optimistic views about the environment or technology (paging Bjorn Lomborg and Ray Kurzweil!).
when it comes to the environment, economists too often meet Oscar wilde's description of a cynic:
Bereft of good role models and the ecological interactions they would have had naturally, organisms cloned back from the dead will be only a shadow of their ancestors.
It goes without saying that Mulligan's idea also ignores the actual services that various ecosystems render to us humans refreshing the air, cleaning water, reducing pests, and so on.
and freeze'em approach--was primarily a way to preserve the genome heritage of vanishing ecosystems, not the biodiversity itself.
and the march of planetary climate change. Maybe the way to think about Mulligan's idea is like satirist Jonathan swift's A Modest Proposal from 1729, in
The EPA waiver. Gasoline has a special vapor pressure specification for volatility for fumes. They end up back in the atmosphere.
This is not the best environment to be raising money in. It's a hard economic time.
but you have to realize that with the BP-Transocean oil spill we just poisoned half the food chain down there in the Gulf of mexico.
and can better fend off the environmental assaults that inflict $700 to $800 million in damages to farmers'crops each year.
the most hostile environment for a greenhouse, proves that the model will be sustainable closer to the equator,
The planet is facing a very serious environmental challenge with respect to food and agriculture and it is clear that we won t solve them without engaging in action with respect to the food system.
 The column by Mark Bittman focuses on a report from the United nations in December 2010, called Agro-ecology and the Right to Food.
while being true to the environment. As the Times column suggests, the focus on generating more and more crops with little regard to the long-term effect on the earth
the world will be less susceptible to the disastrous impacts of droughts or whacky temperature fluctuations or typhoons.
The Environmental protection agency could increase the requirement to 15 percent, and a rising federal alternative fuel mandate will guarantee future demand.
(and other desired foods that can't grow in certain climates) to meet demand, but when it comes to basic food needs cities have
 But the use of massive amounts of wood in skyscrapers or what are being called woodscrapers  raises an inevitable environmental concern:
where climate change is only exacerbating the problem. A big part of the problem is financial.
The environment has eliminated so far the need for pesticides he says. The company envisions supermarkets growing produce under the store
This time, on environmental leadership. It being climate week and all--a fact celebrated by dignitaries creating sparking a ripple effect of traffic gridlock in New york city--all sorts of companies are falling all over themselves to proclaim their latest environmental goals and achievements.
Yesterday, I reported that Newsweek had nodded at Hewlett-packard (No. 1) and Dell (No. 2) with their Greenest Big Companies list.
Today, we get a closer glimpse at least one dimension of both companies'environmental sustainability programs:
their energy consumption and management of greenhouse gas emissions. The companies are rivals in environmental leadership, as well as products.
Which is actually beneficial for all of us. I'll actually start with Dell first, because their team actually called
director of global environmental health and safety for Dell, says that this reduction was encouraged by grassroots, volunteer green teams at 25 of the company's office locations.
Dhaka development eyes growth, climate changedhaka, the capital of bangladesh, is home to 15 million people. And as its population mushrooms,
without further degrading the stressed environment. A trio of landscape, commercial and residential architecture firms from Toronto, JET Architecture
In case of excessive storm water, green roofs are designed to mitigate the runoff and assist water and air purification...
and ecosystem on a daily basis. The study getting the most attention is on plastics.
Scientists from Duke and Georgia Tech are about to publish a piece in Environmental science & Technology studying the impact of a coal ash spill in Tennessee last year.
Coal ash may still end up in the environment. I should add here that the American South, where
In fact, every single one of its business unit leaders is part of the Environmental Council --which sets goals
there has been a lot of controversy over the specter of pilotless drones buzzing across U s. skies, spying on and targeting citizens on the ground.
which just published a new study that predicts the drone aircraft industry may potentially create more than 70,000 new American jobs in the first three years following the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into U s. skies.
but also reduce the total amount of pesticides sprayed, saving money and reducing environmental impact. Public safety:
Drones have the capability to provide eyes in the sky to help police and firefighters at crime or fire scenes.
Weather and environment: Pilotless drones can safely observe weather events such as hurricanes, as well as help monitor environmental conditions
Drugs-on-the-cob: growing new meds in cornscientists have found a way to use maize to produce an expensive drug.
Specifically, it's a drug for a rare and life-threatening lysosomal disease that could previously only be manufactured by expensive cell culture techniques.
Protecting people & the environment. Growing in developing markets. The Applied Biosciences division, which counts $1 billion in revenue,
The Environmental Paper Network estimates that about five million metric tons of paper are used in US offices every year.
Along with INTTRA's observations, the insurance industry has also been pursuing electronic claims and application forms, cutting into the paperwork blizzard.
who looked at the environmental impact of broadband adoption. The greatest potential for greenhouse gas reductions, the authors say,
as well as many other environmental benefits, Fuhr and Pociask point out. Workers and consumers routinely send and receive electronic documents that once were printed on paper,
and water pollution and saving the energy needed for manufacturing, distribution and sales. Newspaper circulation is declining,
The 25 percent is from an EPA study, and that s by volume. In general we have a plastic issue.
in the environment for them to start biodegrading. Do you eat mushrooms? I do. And Gavin does not.
and unhealthy eating habits in under-served, low-income neighbors? You get a program like Garden on the go,
For those readers unfamiliar with the term, the phrase food desert refers to urban neighborhoods or areas where it is difficult to find healthy food options.
is intended to help change local eating habits with the aim of showcasing demand for healthy food alternatives in neighborhoods that have few other alternatives.
or by environmental responsibility, or both? Both. We make sure our clients are saving money, which has been important to our growth.
Even with the recent economic climate, we were growing very strongly. Also, they look back and see that with composting and recycling,
The EPA says about 12 percent of our total waste is food waste. At restaurants, almost all of it is recyclable or compostable.
and when we have really heavy storms we have sewer overflow into the Potomac and Anacostia rivers.
EPA releases interactive map of US biggest pollutersa new map released by the EPA yesterday gives us an interactive glimpse of the largest U s. based greenhouse gas polluters.
The EPA (Environmental protection agency)' s website lists emission metrics from power plants, oil refineries, paper mills and other industries across U s boundaries and states.
or solar power plants exist in the vicinity of heavyweight U s polluters--or few on the map itself, in honesty.
According to the press release, Gina Mccarthy, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation stated:
and foster technologies to protect public health and the environment. The website also includes a downloadable fact sheet(.
EPA's stance on greenhouse gas draws legal fire from Chamber of Commercebeen stewing over this one for a few days,
But did you know that the U s. Chamber of commerce has filed actually a lawsuit with the U s. Court of appeals in the District of columbia that challenges the U s. Environment Protection Agency's decision not to reconsider its position on greenhouse gas emissions?
The Chamber of commerce along with a bunch of other groups including the mysterious Coalition for Responsible Regulation had petitioned the EPA to reconsider its finding from late last year.
the Chamber raised the spectre that many people who favor inaction on climate change seem to favor right now:
that the EPA's finding will have a significant negative impact on jobs and local economies.
which simply was intended never to regulate something as complex as global climate change. The Chamber's lawsuit does not address the science of climate change...
The Chamber supports efforts to address climate change that allow our economy to grow, increase the nation's energy security,
and improve our environment. We continue to call on Congress to work through the legislative process, rather than having the EPA misapply environmental statutes like the Clean Air Act,
which was created not to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. So, at this point I'm thinking about all the times--this year alone--our legislators have backed away from doing something about the environment.
How thrilled has the Chamber been about that? I'm also wondering, as a matter of course, if this will prompt any other high-profile companies to ditch their Chamber memberships,
as Apple and Pacific gas & electric and a bunch of other companies did last year. Dell, for one, is sticking, at least according to a recent blog on its corporate social responsibility page.
The coalition is made up of local chambers who are focused on the flip side of addressing climate change--that it could be a catalyst for group.
increase annual household income $1, 100 and boost GDP $111 billion through comprehensive clean energy and climate policies.
If you want to learn more about the businesses that ARE actually putting money behind their environmental promises
it is need in desperate of rain. Last week, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that the already drought-prone country has had only 14 percent of the average rainfall in the last year.
The little rain that's fallen isn't even penetrating the bone-dry ground. This makes innovation in crop irrigation,
as well as diversification of crops, even more dire. In a study released earlier this year by the Polytechnic University of Cartegena
average rainfall will decrease and drought conditions will worsen by 15 percent. Spain started 2011 with reservoir levels at almost 78 percent capacity.
In regions such as Madrid, barely a drop of rain has fallen in months, and these are more durable plants,
He thinks the trick is advocating more traditional techniques that have less of an environmental impact
but, due to the stumbling economy and the lack of rain, Spain cannot invest much further into this resource.
Bilbao and Sevilla, have even higher levels due to the lack of rainfall. In fact, between the poor city planning and the dry weather, the World health organization has said that 87 percent of the Spanish population breathes polluted air.
In Spain the process ofã Â industrializationã Â andã Â urbanizationã Â has degraded quality, particularly in urban centers.
environmental and climate change policies, said Luis Jimã Â nez, the director of the Observatory of Sustainability in Spain,
Finally, the low rain-and snowfall has led to an increase in forest fires, especially in the wooded province of Galicia.
Spain can only pray for rain but it can certainly invest more in research and innovation.
I recently spoke with Chief Environmental Officer Rich Shank. Prior to his role at Scotts Miracle-Gro
He is a board member of the Ohio Environmental Council and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
What else are you doing to reduce the level of chemicals put into he environment through your products?
What is the level of understanding that the public has about these environmental issues? Do they know about the risks of phosphorus, for example?
But we ve been partnering with environmental groups around the country to get the word out on simple lawn procedures to minimize pollution.
and water pollution issues and how their homes and lawns can have a positive impact on the environment instead of a negative impact.
So what are the top three things you want customers to understand about their lawns and the environment?
Follow the directions on the bag. Cut your grass high 3 to 4 inches. That gives you deeper roots,
& Environmental Research center at the University of North dakota once worked on technology to convert waste from a space station and future Martian bases into heat and power.
What a waste Meanwhile up in the sky, and other alternatives to corn: Sydney to London on the Plastic Fantastic powered flight Move over graphene:
Bamboo is the next wonder material Friends of Earth rain on Lufthansa biofuels parade Biofuels fly mainstream:
they fear an ecological domino effect of devastation. The company's investor background material note that their fish eat five times the food as wild salmon do
which contains EPA and DHA, the building blocks of omega-3 fatty acids that help keep the heart
The measures have been a major setback to seed giants like Monsanto who argue that GMOS--like those that produce crops resistant to disease--are feed necessary to a growing planet and pose no harm to humans or the environment.
whether GMOS harm humans or the environment. Little wonder that the biotech companies are worried. A June ABC News poll found that 52 percent of the respondents felt GMO food was unsafe to eat
A supercharged talker, with a blizzard of facts and blazing green eyes, Elmore is indeed waging a big-screen worthy crusade.
It's against America's rising tide of food waste, which bloats its landfills and costs it the equivalent of $165 billion a year in wasted food.
that this is not just about the environment, Elmore said. This is about money. Each year, Americans throw away 40 percent of our food, much of it perfectly edible.
In fact, the Environmental protection agency says food waste accounts for 13 percent of total trash nationally. In 1980, food waste by weight made up 9. 5 percent of local landfills.
The EPA puts the total amount at 33 million tons a year. For a luxury catering outfit like Atlanta's Affairs to Remember
But less than three percent of food waste is composted, according to the EPA. Some of that has to do with regulatory hurdles that composters face to open new facilities.
or they get closed once neighbors complain about food-rot odor. The industry, including some 3, 500 independent composters,
She praised Elmore for seeing the business sense in what is viewed often as a strictly environmental issue,
and by changing policy incentives, the nation's agricultural system would be equipped better to deal with several environmental impacts such as climate change, biodiversity loss and resource issues.
and climate change. Agriculture is at a pivotal stage in terms of meeting societal demands for products while improving sustainability.
instead of perpetuating the modern agricultural practices that take a toll on the environment and the quality of our food.
Publishing yesterday in Nature Climate Change, the researchers find that producing biofuel from forests would release 14 percent more greenhouse emissions than proceeding with current management practices.
Salvaging biofuel from West's pine beetle devastation Could biodiesel be worse for the environment than diesel?
Friends of Earth rains on Lufthansa biofuel paradefriends of the Earth today condemned Lufthansa s use of biofuels on commercial flights as greenwashing that makes an environmentally destructive practice appear eco-friendly.
and deforestation, push up food prices, and make climate change worse. He issued his statement prior to the scheduled 11:15 a m. take off of Lufthansa flight LH013 from Hamburg-to-Frankfurt.
The 244-mile trip marked the first ever use of jet biofuels on a regular commercial service.
Scientific studies consistently show that most of the currently used biofuels are worse for the climate than fossil fuels, a Foe position paper states.
Not only does deforestation release CO2, but so do the processes of relocating food crops and producing biofuels.
A report produced by IEEP (Institute for European Environmental Policy) for Friends of the Earth Europe
and other NGOS found that EU road biofuels are between 81%and 167%worse for the climate than the equivalent fossil fuels,
Foe biofuel campaigner Kenneth Richter added that airlines overstate the environmental friendliness of jatropha. Although the crop can grow on degraded soil
and grafts fruit branches onto non fruit-bearing public trees, hiding farm-fresh produce in an urban environment.
the Guerrilla Grafters develop partnerships in each neighborhood they graft in so there's someone local to monitor progress.
and devotees of the gin and tonic are staring down a disease that threatens to obliterate their classic hot weather elixir.
Here we are in a water-stressed environment and getting rid of our most precious resource.
because it meets the needs of global climate change, but it taints our water supply. Ideally, you take the wastewater stream,
But there's also the environmental concern in putting warmer water back into the ocean--the long-term fate of the ecology of the ocean.
It's kind of like how wind was in the last decade. Wind technology is green and renewable,
but a lot more expensive than a coal power plant. Early on, it needed incentives to get started. Similarly
but high levels accumulate in the environment through wood preservatives, fertilizers, coal burning, paints and other industrial uses.
the ladder brake fern (Pteris vittata) is used already in some of the Environmental protection agency's phytoremediation efforts of arsenic-laden soil.
In a growing number of civil rights cases, it can illustrate how critical infrastructure is selectively parceled out from neighborhood to neighborhood.
The Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities based in North carolina is using Geographic Information systems (GIS) data to map available infrastructure against the racial characteristics of different neighborhoods in the United states. The organization studies everything from water
but not in many neighborhoods that are primarily Black or Latino. Governments often annex new neighborhoods over time,
extending their town boundaries to accommodate a larger population that is already part of the local tax base.
as GIS data shows, governments have annexed these neighborhoods selectively, which means they're choosing which citizens within a larger region (often called an extraterritorial jurisdiction,
The Cedar Group Institute tied together geo-coded data from public sources with government census data to show that black neighborhoods were deliberately being denied access to city water service.
In Modesto California, the Cedar Grove Institute's data analysis shows that many Latino neighborhoods are marked by their lack of sewer access,
In Moore County in North carolina, Cedar Grove maps show sewer lines that literally branch around some of the black neighborhoods without going through them.
Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate changethe  philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
Using a new platform, its high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine, the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
The platform, unveiled at the  International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, could be used as a tool for nations to comply with the United nations-proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) program
Based largely on data from  the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change report,
the REDD program plans to offer money in exchange for the prevention of the destruction of forests deemed significant to curbing global climate change.
Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of the European union, and are greater than those of all  cars, trucks, planes, ships,
or environmental monitoring agencies
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