The DESERTEC Concept provides an answer that will allow most people in the world access to solar and wind power from the world’s energy-rich desert areas.

Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World, a new book by Robert McKinnon inspires us to keep a generational promise to leave the world a better place than we inherited.

Expanding on the actions of its many environmentally conscious residents and businesses, San Francisco recently became the first U.S. city to legally mandate the recycling of food.

Last Wednesday I attended Ad Week’s Climate Change Symposium. Here, the world of NYC advertising shared with the audience that it has found its niche within the climate change agenda, which is to engage ‘consumers’ and ‘internal stakeholders’ in a movement that in turn will activate policy and drive global agreements.

Hopenhagen is a movement that intends to influence UN decision making at the Climate Change Conference that will be held on December 7th in Copenhagen.

Mitigating Climate Change is hot on the business agenda. What about Adapting to it? There’s been plenty coverage on the rise and detail of the American Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES and also called the US climate and energy bill), passed by the United States House of Representatives on June 26 and now facing the Senate with daunting prospects, with the objective of mitigating climate change and reducing our dependency on oil. But thus far very little coverage on the significance of climate impacts and the change and planning required for businesses, administrations and institutions – ‘climate adaptation’.

Though the ‘Synthetic Tree’ may hardly resemble its natural brethren, developers hope it will capture more than a thousand times as much carbon dioxide as the real thing. The working prototype traps carbon in a compression chamber where it is converted into liquid carbon dioxide, a byproduct that is easier to store and manage. It’s similar in design to the carbon sponges used in coal power plants, but is intended to work anywhere.  
The lead developer and Columbia University scientist, Professor Klaus Lackner notes in a CNN interview,
“Half of your emissions come from small, distributed sources where collection at the [...]

With all the talk about developing greener technologies and alternative sources of energy to curb our consumption and clean up the environment, are we ignoring the simplest solution – walking more? Worldchanging asks us to reframe our current thinking and consider the time tested notion of “muscle power” to not only positively impact the health of our planet, but that of its cities and people as well. Their discussion references findings from two older studies – 2003 and 2005 respectively – that offer some stunning statistics, prompting us to wonder why this “radical” idea doesn’t warrant further research, let alone enter [...]