Comprehensive study of energy used during car manufacturing vs. energy used during driving. At first glance, the report looks bad for Priuses, but I suspect this is an oversimplified reading.
Very cool overview of how Kenyans are using basic digester technology to provide sanitation services and gas for cooking. This has a double benefit for climate — less methane emitted as well as less firewood collected for cooking needs.
RealClimate is one of the best site’s on the web for technical climate change info. They’ve pulled together a nice resource guide for those who want to learn more.
This article raises many of the same questions we raised in our coverage of Tesco’s carbon labeling scheme, but in more detail. I wish it got deeper into some answers to those questions, though.
This is an important article that gets at something we’ve said earlier but deserves more play: efficiency improvements (rather than conservation or renewables) are some of the most important tools for fighting climate change.
The economist continues its coverage of geo-engineering with the latest — a proposal to shift the magnetic fields in the arctic to vent CO2 into the atmosphere. Hmm. How about agreeing to some firm caps before chasing these ideas?
