http://bestgasmileageblog.com What Used cars have best mileage? Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:06:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Oil Sands, the world's second-largest proven reserves after Saudi Arabia, hold out the promise of energy security for the United States and economic security for Canada. But environmentalists fear the destructive, energy intensive process of extracting the oil will carry direct consequences for the planet. Despite the ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/economic-security-or-environmental-destruction -Graciela Chichilnisky is the Architect of the Carbon Market of the Kyoto Protocol and the author of 'Saving Kyoto', New Holland Publishers, UK, 2009.  Chichilnisky is a Professor of Mathematics and Economics at Columbia University in New York, Director of Columbia Consortium for Risk Management and Managing Director of Global ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/managing-catastrophic-risks-and-climate-change By Helen Hughes — Special to GlobalPost SANTIAGO, Chile — Jacquelin Marin has no running hot water at home. For a while, she had no real home at all. But soon she’ll have both, with the sun heating water for her showers. Marin and her neighbors are part of a pilot program ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/hot-water-for-chile%e2%80%99s-slums-courtesy-of-the-sun A women’s group is criticising the United Nations for appointing only men to a 19-strong panel of experts to work out how to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change. “A planet of men? Since when?” asks the German-based Gender CC — Women for Climate Justice in a statement. The new panel, to be co-chaired by ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/too-few-women-in-un-climate-jobs-ban-names-19-man-panel Fred Krupp is president of the Environmental Defense Fund. The views expressed are his own. It’s as though three mammoth challenges facing America are intertwined like the strands of a rope: reducing our dependence on Mideast oil; creating new American jobs from clean energy; and reducing pollution responsible for climate change. Together, ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/can-the-us-compete-with-china-in-the-green-economy Scientists studying remote Arctic seas north of Siberia have found  high levels of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, in some places bubbling up from the seabed.  But is it new (extremely alarming as a possible sign of climate change), impossible to know how long it’s been going on (still worrying), or might it have been happening for a long time ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/arctic-leaking-methane-but-since-when -Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own- The project involved more than 2,500 scientists. It cost $ 10.5 billion between 1983 and 2009 and it included one of the most bizarre scientific tasks of all time: evaluate whether nuclear waste stored deep inside ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/obama-politics-and-nuclear-waste American sci-fi blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow warned global audiences about climate change as it showed New York smothered by ice as temperatures plunged worldwide.  But the 2004 movie evidently made little impact on growth-crazy Asia, which has gone ahead spewing pollutants without imagining risks that they might disrupt the climate. This year ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/flood-drowns-taipei-in-cinematic-wake-up-call Asher Miller is executive director of think tank Post Carbon Institute. Any opinion expressed here is his own. It should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention to the politics of climate legislation to hear Senator Lindsey Graham pronounce, “the cap-and-trade bills in the House and Senate are dead.” The ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/senator-graham-shouts-%e2%80%9cplay-ball%e2%80%9d This article by Beth Hodgson originally appeared in GlobalPost. Over the last few months, we’ve seen serious discussions taking place globally as countries and cities pledge to go green. Some cities have made greener strides than others, which puts them at the top of the list for sustainability goals. The five greenest cities ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/top-5-greenest-cities-in-the-world While attending a meeting of prominent climate sceptics during the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December (an anti-COP15, if you will), I listened to each of the speakers put forward their theory on why conventional evidence on the primary causes of climate change should be dismissed as, for lack ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/are-you-losing-faith-in-climate-science John Laforet is president of Wind Concerns Ontario, a coalition of 42 grassroots organizations aiming to curtail development of wind farms in the central Canadian province of Ontario.  He is also running for municipal public office. Governments around the world are actively seeking private development of renewable energy projects by ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/caveat-investor-wind-may-let-you-down The blogosphere is rumbling with anticipation of the  “Bloom Box”, a pint-sized “power plant” that could change the way we power our homes and offices forever. The buzz began Sunday when 60 minutes aired an exclusive profile of the alternative energy fuel cell developed by startup Bloom Energy and its ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/is-bloom-energy-the-next-ge Following is the Thomson Reuters North America Shale Gas Valuation Index, based on closing share prices from Feb. 18. The data comes from StarMine, a Thomson Reuters company, using the 12-month forward SmartEstimate, a measure that selects estimates from only the most accurate analysts. StarMine Intrinsic Value is a variation on the ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/shale-gas-valuation-index-2 MANAMA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Dubai’s debt fiasco and real estate bubble bust pushes investors to look out for alternative assets underlying Islamic finance products – could renewable energy provide a way-out? Predominantly, Islamic finance and investment products have been backed by infrastructure or commodities assets. But executives at the 2010 ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/awaiting-the-alternative-energy-sukuk-innovation-vs-conservatism – Richard Heinberg is the author of eight books, including “Peak Everything”, “Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis” and “The Party’s Over”. He is also a senior fellow with the Post Carbon Institute. The views expressed are his own. – Recent shale gas projects, including those involving the massive ... http://bestgasmileageblog.com/gas-mileage-improvement-devices/goldilocks-and-the-three-fuels