Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
In the past three decades, electricity consumption per capita grew 60 percent in the rest of the nation, while it stayed flat in high-tech, fast-growing California. If all Americans had the same per capita electricity demand as Californians currently do, we would cut electricity consumption 40 percent.Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Morning Edition, May 6, 2008 · In Abu Dhabi, there's an area of nothing but wind-swept desert. But 10 years from now, if all goes according to plan, a city of 6 square kilometers housing 50,000 people will rise in the United Arab Emirates - and it will be carbon ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
A new short film was released last week that takes viewers on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture -- from resource extraction to computer incineration -- exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.Read the full story
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Air travel is the latest guilt trip for the environmentally conscious consumer. Here's how flying contributes to global warming and what is being done to cool the jets.Read the full story
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