September 21, 2009: Greenhouse Gases to Fall Two Percent in 2009
International greenhouse gas emissions are predicted to fall by two percent in 2009 because of the recession.
Eighty-two percent of the Global 500 companies disclosed their emissions and are incorporating the cost of carbon into their business strategies, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project.
World leaders of the G20 meet later this week in Pittsburgh. The green-collar economy is high on the agenda.
A big new idea: a National Institutes of Energy that would channel funding toward R&D for low-cost commercial clean energy technologies, kind of like a National Institutes of Health for the clean energy sector.
The smart grid industry gathers at GridWeek to discuss the complexity of digitizing the the power grid.
Those gadgets that blink in the night make up 15 percent of household energy use.
A piece in Slate grapples with the contrast between the west coast clean-tech culture’s embrace of government support and the east coast financial sector’s dislike of federal intervention.
The AFL-CIO has a new blog whose mission is for green jobs to be safe jobs.
Local Green: Iowans support climate change legislation.
Eddie Sturman engineers for energy efficiency in Colorado. He made a power saving valve for the Apollo space missions.
– Heidi Pickman
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