So China’s top climate change negotiator has laid down the gauntlet. He wants consuming nations to take responsibility for emissions generated by Chinese manufacturing of the goods they consume.

I don’t want to get into the nuances of an international accord on greenhouse gas emissions, but I think China has a point here. It is a global marketplace with supply chains spanning across the world. And greenhouse gas emissions certainly don’t care...

On Saturday, March 28, 2009 (tomorrow), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is sponsoring an event called Earth Hour to call attention to climate change.  This is the third annual Earth Hour and the organizers are hoping that one billion people will participate worldwide.  So what will be happening?  What can one billion man hours accomplish in service to the environment?  I was imagining rallies around the globe where people...

There has been a movement in recent years among on college campuses to go green. The Princeton Review, best known for publishing annual college rankings, had added a new ranking for 2009 and will recognize green efforts. The Green Rating ranked 534 colleges according to their environmentally related policies, practices and academic offerings.

A college’s Green Rating is based their performance in three main areas:

Do students have a campus...

I just came across this startling statistic in Wired Magazine: By 2030 China could be producing as much carbon emissions as the entire world is creating today.

While that is a pretty scary prospect, it isn’t without a silver lining for us here in the US.

First, we need to address a theme of my work here on the Community Energy blog: the chicken or the egg question of carbon emissions. If you buy the product, who owns the carbon emissions?...