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Elton's Environment

English - Energy Efficiency, Climate Change, Energy Policy
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Elton's Environment · 6M ago

Biggest Jump Ever in CO2

2010 saw a frightening increase in CO2 emissions, higher than the worst case scenario used by climate experts just four years ago. New data shows that 2010 was a trifecta of bad news: The world, the US, and China all produced record-breaking amounts of CO2. Unfortunately, it is a record we did not w
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Elton's Environment · 7M ago

Electric Cars in Paris—by the Hour

Paris officials hope to deploy about 3,000 shared electric cars in Paris next summer and 5,000 by 2013.  To support the new system, called Autolib, Paris and the surrounding cities will install 1,000 charging stations. The new Autolib system was inspired by the Parisian shared bike system. Despite s
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Elton's Environment · 10M ago

Did Global Warming Cause the Heat Dome?

Global warming contributes to all major weather events. The air today contains more moisture that it did in the 20th century. Greenhouse gases, caused by the burning of coal, wood and oil, trap the sun’s heat, warming the air, evaporating more water and trapping more moisture in the air. This combin
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Elton's Environment · 10M ago

Congress May Rescue the Worst Bulbs

In 2007, the Bush administration signed bipartisan legislation to improve light bulb efficiency by 30% between 2012 and 2014. The legislation does not ban incandescent bulbs; it just requires them to be more efficient. It also exempts small bulbs under 40 watts, large bulbs over 150 watts and 3-way
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Elton's Environment · 11M ago

Three eLit Awards for Addicted to Energy

Addicted to Energy received three eLit Awards for excellence in digital publishing. It received top honors, a gold award, in the Current Events I category, and two silver awards: Science and Environmental/Ecology/Nature categories. The electronic version of Addicted to Energy is available from both
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Elton's Environment · 1Y ago

The Vatican Speaks on Climate Change

The Vatican Pontifical Academy of Sciences has just released a strongly worded report on global climate change demanding in the strongest possible language that humans act decisively to avert a coming crisis. “We call on all people and nations to recognize the serious and potentially irreversible im
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Elton's Environment · 1Y ago

Lessons from Mr. Tassi’s $300 Utility Bill

A recent Wall Street Journal article tells the tale of Tom Tassi, whose “$300 electricity bill had become an embarrassment.” “He bought a TED 5000c,” a $240 device (plus installation) that measures second-by-second how much electricity a house is using and transmits the data to a wireless hand-held
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Elton's Environment · 1Y ago

$15 Gasoline

Lester Brown, in his extraordinary new book, World on the Edge, says if gasoline were fully burdened with its environmental and defense costs it would cost $15 a gallon! This got me thinking, what changes would the Sherwin household make if gasoline were $15 a gallon?  The Prius would cost $160 per
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Elton's Environment · 1Y ago

The Prius of American Homes

Meritage Homes has created the “Prius” of new homes.  They consume one-fourth the energy of typical homes built to code, and cost little more than a standard new home. As this video says, they will never build a home the old way again.  The statement in the video at the 5-minute mark is remarkable.
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Elton's Environment · 1Y ago

Floods, Droughts and Locusts in Australia

The Creation Care website folks asked me to do a short piece on the situation in Australia. I’m re-posting it here as well. Since 2003, Australia has been hit with a series of droughts, floods and locust plagues.  A business colleague sent these stunning pictures of agricultural regions in 2010, bef
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