We need a plan for reducing carbon emissions that actually works.

I know it isn’t even summer yet, but December can’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned. That’s when the next UN Climate Change Conference 2009 will be held in Copenhagen. This will be the first of these conferences since the arrival of President Obama on the scene. I don’t think it is controversial to say that he’s shown a greater willingness than his predecessor to have...

By now, most western cultures are well aware of their carbon pollution impact. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the number one contributor to rising global temperatures and is released by everything from automobiles to coal-fired power plants.

Community Energy has come to understand these issues more intimately than most, as our business model is based around affecting change in these areas. However, when considering carbon pollution on a global scale,...

A  recent New York Times Magazine article, Why Isn’t the Brain Green? seeks to answer one of my unanswerable questions:  Why do people resist making simple lifestyle changes that have the potential to reduce climate change and ensure a clean environment for future generations?

“CRED (The Center for Research on Environmental Decisions) researchers consider global warming a singular opportunity to study how we react to long-term...

Finally, some good news on the climate change front. It turns out that, according to a study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) , that cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 70% this century can greatly diminish the threats from global warming.

The NCAR press release is clear to confirm that emissions caused by human activities have already changed the climate and, left unchecked, will lead to dire circumstances for us and...

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...