Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Society

Posted on December 8, 2009, 4:31 pm, by jrogers, under Politics & Policy.
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EPA BuildingYesterday, December 7th, the EPA formally declared that greenhouse gases threaten public health and the environment.  In its news release, the EPA stated that greenhouse gases are “the primary driver of climate change, which can lead to hotter, longer heat waves that threaten the health of the sick, poor or elderly; increases in ground-level ozone pollution linked to asthma and other respiratory illnesses; as well as other threats to the health and welfare of Americans.”…

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Interest in Global Warming Heats Up

Posted on April 1, 2009, 12:30 pm, by Anthony Butler, under Green Products, Media, Technology.
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When you visit the New York times website on Sunday evening, the list of most emailed articles is usually topped by either the big news story of the day, a particularly relevant Frank Rich article or some pithy commentary from Maureen Dowd.…

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Time to cool off

Posted on January 25, 2009, 8:04 pm, by Anthony Butler, under Technology.
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Red Earth

Our Planet in 2220?

At the Cambridge headquarters of Energy 2.0 we’re well served with local scientific opinions-what with the big brains of Harvard at one end of town and the super-colliding intelligence of MIT at the other.…

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