The Green Technocrat

The Bonn Climate Change Talks, one of the series of UNFCCC conferences that are leading up to the Copenhagen talks (where a new UN protocol will be adopted to replace the Kyoto protocol), ended on April 8th.
Synopsis from UNFCCC:
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer stated that, with regard to emission targets for industrialized countries, the [...]

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My posts have become woefully infrequent these past two weeks.  Regrettably, I have not had the time to focus on this blog due to the fact that I was finishing up working on two separate projects, one for the University of Washington, and the other for eComponents Technology.
As these projects came to an end I [...]

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On Monday the E.P.A. announced the winners of its annual Green Power Leadership Awards.
The three categories the E.P.A. gives awards for are:

Green Power Partner of the Year: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves through their purchase, leadership, overall strategy, and impact on the green power market.
On-site Generation: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy [...]

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On Friday Garden State Offshore Energy was awarded the rights to build a huge offshore wind farm.  The wind farm is part of New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan which requires 20% of the states energy to come from renewable sources by 2020.
The proposal for the project, which is estimated at over $1 billion dollars, is [...]

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From the UNFCCC:

The Poznań Climate Change Conference provides the opportunity to draw together the advances made in 2008 and move from [...]

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Science Debate 2008 started off as a group of six-two screenwriters, a physicist, a marine biologist, a philosopher and a science journalist-whose mission was to determine where this year’s presidential candidates stood on issues of scientific importance. Their ranks swelled as thousands of scientists and engineers (including dozens of Nobel laureates) joined them in [...]

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Image from Inhabitat
When I think of the Sahara desert I imagine a place where nothing is growing.  Sure maybe there is an Oasis or two scattered about, but  I think sand, sun, and more sand.  So when I heard about the The Sahara Forest Project, a plan to build giant greenhouses smack dab in the [...]

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It’s a start….
From the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations took place in Accra, Ghana, from 21-27 August. The Accra Climate Change Talks took forward work on a strengthened and effective international climate change deal under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as [...]

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