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July 2011 - The Price of Gas This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting calculates the carbon footprint and other "external costs" of gasoline use in the U.S.
May 2011 - Pay Now, Pay Later: How much is climate change going to cost you? New reports released by the bipartisan think tank American Security Project assess the probable economic losses on a state-by-state basis as a result of unmitigated climate change. "Pay Now, Pay Later" (PNPL) shows that doing nothing about climate change will have a cost. We can pay now and invest in renewable, clean sources or energy or do nothing, and run the risk of paying significantly more in the future.
April 2011 - WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - June 5
March 2011 - Footprint VS. Biodiversity
A country's ecological footprint is a measure of how many renewable resources it uses to feed and support its citizens. These resources can come from around the world —a country's ecological footprint can exceed its own country's capacity if it's using resources that are taken from other countries. And if we look at the last 40 years, while wealthier country's ecological footprints have risen drastically —implying that they are using more ecological resources than before —their biodiversity (as measured by the Living Planet Index) has increased. At the same time, the biodiversity of poorer countries has plummeted. Are wealthy countries using more resources at the expense of the less-well off? February 2011 - Energy & Environment Consumer Survey Report from Pike Research Please visit Pike Research's website to download the FREE white paper. January 2011 - Are megacities an opportunity or a threat? Half the world now lives in cities, and they are growing. Can this evolution of human infrastructure improve our social and ecological prospects?
January 2011 - Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes The GVCS is a set of 50 tools / technologies for building post-scarcity, resilient communities. See a two minutes video explainer about GVCS:
Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo. More information about the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) and the plan for how it will be built by Open Source Ecology here. July 2010 - WWF launched the 2010 edition of the Living Planet Report On 13 October, WWF launched the 2010 edition of the Living Planet Report. The report is published every 2 years and is considered to be the world's leading, science-based analysis about the impact of human activity on the health of our planet. It's key finding: humanity's demands exceed our planet's capacity to sustain us. In other terms, we ask for more than what we have. July 2010 - Back to Basic: CFL lightbulbs in Plain English
June 2010 - Our Necessary and Inevitable Move Away From Oil... With BP keeping a top spot in the news for the last 8 weeks, moving away from oil become a natural thougth for many in and outside U.S. H2oil animated sequences from Dale Hayward on Vimeo.
May 2010 - The problem of Alberta Tar Sands A clear, concise animation describing the challenge tar sands represent for the world: both essence of the climate change problems faced by our modern world and solution as a short term unlimited fossil fuel reserve... Please check "Dirty Oil Video: Canada's Tar Sands Explained" on Solve Climate News website for more information.
April 2010 - Streamline green product design with an LCA approach Download our white paper
March 2010 - The bottom line about Climate Change The perceived communications fiasco of the last few months about what is known and not known about the science of climate change has been damaging for the cause... and our future, generating doubt, added to the pre-existing deny conditions of millions, including some political leaders. This led Andy Lubershane, to try a different approach—animation. His effort is meant to communicate in a clear, humorous, memorable way the reasons why we need to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions while rising sea level settles border dispute between India and Bangladesg in the Bay of Bengal.
February 2010 - Redifine the business case for Sustainability during a slow economic recovery Download our white paper
December 2009 - Recycled and plastic based, still how better for the environment bottled water can be? The last quarter 2009 has been the time for several major beverage companies as well as medium size "green" minded businesses to release new plastic bottles based on 100% recycled plastic which are also 100% recyclable. Another approach which unfortunately doesn't work easily for sodas is the plant based bottle. All these recent developments definitively go in the right direction. Nevertheless, it is important to keep in mind the exact environmental bill behind bottled water... and how it compares with tap water in order to really estimate the progress and the path still to go with this presention by Online Education:
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