In a recent speech given at a jobs training center for energy hardware and software in Lanham, Maryland, President Obama announced controversial decision to break ground on the first nuclear power plant in 30 years. Obama addresses both sides of the environmental and economic debate surrounding clean energy. A major point he makes is that nuclear power is cleaner for the air: it will prevent 16 million tons of carbon dioxide emission each year, the amount that a coal plant of similar scale would produce. This is the equivalent of taking 3.5 million cars of the road. Using more dubious logic, Obama states that our “competitors”, referring to other nations such a France and China, are building nuclear plants, and creating jobs for their citizens, and we need to keep up with them to keep the economy strong.
What’s your opinion of Obama’s energy strategies?
As 2012 draws closer and closer, so too does the end of the prestigious Kyoto protocol.
ach day, and there is only so much available space the world has to offer in which to bury them. So what’s the most environmentally friend thing to do with a dead body? Or as the great Shakespeare would say: to casket or not to casket?
$6 billion can go a long ways. It can pay for 25,000 students to attend Harvard, finance one month of the war in Iraq, and even re-build the World Trade Center with plenty left over to spare. But it might not be enough to save one of the most renowned cities in the world from despair.
People are amazing these days. Last December, a 70-year old Indian woman gave birth to her first child. And now, just this past week, although not as physically impressive, a 70-year man from Colorado invented a line of solar-powered lawn equipment. So much for moving to that lakefront property in northern Florida.
Picture the Sahara Desert as a farming community. It just doesn’t seem right. Scientists have found emerging evidence that suggests the desert is greening due to increasing rainfall, and if sustained, the precipitation could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities.
Only Dubai, a city that has practically sprung up overnight with some of the world’s most jaw-droppingly creative architecture, would construct an ecosystem reaching into the clouds.
Adding crop residue, bones, and manure to our soil could cure all of our environmental woes. If you don’t believe me, ask Brian Bibens, a research engineer with the 
People often argue that Global Warming isn’t real, but no one actually argues that Global Warming is a good thing. Until Now. An international team of researchers reported in the current issue of the journal, 
No wonder there are so many stupid people in the world. Researchers recently found that air pollution exposure before birth lowers IQ scores in childhood, providing substantial evidence that smog may harm brain development.
