Sustainable Prosperity

Barack Obama’s Energy Plan ·        Provide short-term relief to American families facing pain at the pump ·        Swap Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Cut Prices ·        Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families ·        Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future ·        Within 10 years save more oil...Read Full Story

Michael Grosvenor is a leading urban and transport planning professional and freelance writer on sustainable living. His books include Sustainable Living For Dummies ( Green Living For Dummies in the UK and US); Energy Saving Tips For Dummies ; and Water Saving Tips For Dummies . Through his work and writing, Michael promotes the benefits of making sustainable lifestyle choices. Michael has a particular expertise in advising the private sector and government on policies that promote increased...Read Full Story

April 22 is Earth Day. Changing the earth starts with simple actions. When you replace light bulbs or entire light fixtures in your home with ones that have earned the government’s ENERGY STAR, you help preserve energy resources while saving money and time buying and changing lighting fixtures in your home. ENERGY STAR qualified lighting provides bright, warm light but uses at least 2/3 less energy than standard lighting, generates 70 percent less heat, and lasts up to 10 times longer. To...Read Full Story

April 22 is Earth Day. Changing the earth starts with simple actions. When you replace light bulbs or entire light fixtures in your home with ones that have earned the government’s ENERGY STAR, you help preserve energy resources and reduce the risks of global warming while saving money and time buying and changing lights in your home. ENERGY STAR qualified lighting provides bright, warm light but uses at least 2/3 less energy than standard lighting, generates 70 percent less heat, and lasts...Read Full Story

India news IndiaDude 3 hours ago ( http://us.rd.yahoo.com ) View profile Category : Business/Stocks The EU is pressing emerging economies such as China and India to agree to cut their greenhouse gas emissions under the proposed new post-Kyoto agreement on climate change. European environment ministers this week urged developing countries to cut their emissions by 15-30% below "business as usual" under any new global...Read Full Story

i was watching the news this past afternoon and I saw this interesting clip on ctv. David Suzuki confronted current environment minister John Baird on his recent climate change plan announcement. Mr Baird was not expecting to see Suzuki hiding a throng of reporters. Mr. Suzuki went on to express his disappointment to the governments announcements. He did not budge but kept on talking. You could tell Mr. Baird was visibly shaken and in order to compensate said some strong party rederect about...Read Full Story

It used to be that Mexico City had the highest rate of air pollution in the world. Birds were said to fall dead from the skies. Within the city visibility was down to 1.5km (less than a mile); the huge volcanoes, Popocatepetl, Ixtacihuatl, and Paricutin, once staples of the landscape, could rarely even be seen. But that has all changed now. Mexico City smog in 1986 The same view today Two decades worth of clean air policies have made a huge difference. Yet the work goes on. In the 1959, the...Read Full Story