‘Environment’ Archives
Solar Power for Energy Conservation: Yes or No
With so much focus on a green environment and with the escalating prices in fuel consumption, solar power has come in a big way to help conserve energy with many due advantages. Among the renewable energy sources, solar power has proved to be the most sustainable energy source, as the best alternative to gaseous fossil fuels. Solar panels for [...]
A Future Investment: Solar Panels to Shoot up your House Value
Solar panels are being installed as a long term future investment by smart house owners despite its initial cost. No doubt, this may be quite a pocket drainer to begin with but with the passage of time, you will have greater financial benefits to make up for the investment. Solar panel will not only be a value investment but will add to the [...]
5 Simple Recycling Tips to Save Our Landfills
There’s been a lot of talk recently about saddling our children and grandchildren with a huge national debt. But that’s not the only problem we’re creating for our kids: They’re going to inherit a nation of landfills that are packed beyond their capacity. How about recycling more of this material and solving this problem [...]
Ron Paul says "drill, baby drill" – bad idea says economists
In a recent Feature, Al Jazeera English talked to five professional economists about their views on Ron Paul’s economic policies. One of the economic points discussed was Paul’s idea to lower the price of fuel. Ron Paul believes, just like the other Republican front-runners in the 2012 election, that the price on fuel could be lowered if the [...]
Obama may still buckle on Keystone
So Keystone has become a high-stakes political chess game following the president’s decision to kill the project. This Talking Points Memo article says Republicans have no expectations of getting Obama to sign infrastructure legislation including a Keystone rider, but they’ll attach the rider anyway as a pure political play: to blame [...]
Hundreds of protesters called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies
Yesterday hundreds of demonstrators dressed in referee uniforms called the US Congress to end the huge tax breaks and other subsidies to Big Oil and the fossil fuel industry. Bill McKibben, founder of the +350.org movement and one of the key speakers at the event, said that this year the US Congress will give "billions of dollars in taxpayer [...]
Nuclear Piranhas Eat Their Own
We already know that the nuclear industry is quite comfortable colluding with governments to deceive the public or spying on environmental groups so that senior executives are sent to jail or lying to regulators to cover up radioactive leaks that are contaminating groundwater. So, it should come as very little surprise that the nuclear industry [...]
Barack Obama hits "secretive oil billionaires" in first campaign ad
This is the first advertisement from Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. The ad targets “secretive oil billionaires”, which is a clear response to the Koch brothers recent $6 million attack ads (http://bit.ly/xrdzBH). The advertisement is also touting the rapidly growing clean-energy economy, saying that 2.7 million jobs have been [...]
Six reasons why the Keystone XL pipeline project should be rejected
Sally Kohn has a good opinion piece on Fox News, of all places, where she lists six important reasons why the Keystone XL pipeline was a bad deal all along: 1. The Keystone XL pipeline would not reduce foreign oil dependency.2. Contrary to popular opinion, Keystone XL would have increased domestic oil prices.3. Proponents of the pipeline [...]
Obama Keystone statement bodes ill for future of climate
If President Obama’s thoroughly embarrassing stumbling-block posture at Durban left any doubt about the softness of his conviction on climate change, the Keystone decision has just nailed the notion. Yes, it’s great that the pipeline is dead, and everyone from Bill McKibben and 350.org to every single demonstrator who got this done by [...]
