Energy and Climate Change

In the ongoing hunt for alternative fuel sources that are also cost-effective, researchers are looking into making biofuel from genetically engineered diatoms, a type of single-celled algae with shells made of glasslike silica.

Dairy farms produce huge amounts of manure that can ooze into groundwater and eventually into streams and rivers to cause pollution problems.

The energy widget is the latest of several ideas from HP, Google, Microsoft and others for cutting down on unnecessary power consumption by the nation’s PC users.

"We can know the causes of what we’re doing, and we can know the impact of what we’re doing," says Goleman, who wrote the 1995 best seller Emotional Intelligence. "It’s going to have a radical impact on the way we do business."

Gov. Schweitzer is working with Wall on a joint $270-million carbon capture and storage (CCS) proposal that would capture carbon from one of SaskPower’s southern coal-fired power plants, and see it pumped into Montana and stored underground.

More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don’t have access to them, according to an editorial published in the British medical journal, Lancet. That results in 76 million unintended pregnancies every year.

The reason that all these other countries are building solar-panel industries today is because most of their governments have put in place the three prerequisites for growing a renewable energy industry:

IBM has high hopes that a visit by high ranking federal officials to Dubuque, Iowa today will help cement local taxpayer support for Big Blues’ grand plan to turn Dubuque into a model "sustainable" city.

Geothermal power is available to all Earthlings, but finding the right spot for a full-scale electrical plant takes a long drill, a lot of money, and luck.

“I am asking this group to take a hands-on approach in working towards finding viable energy resources that will not only address the future energy needs of Kentucky, but will develop an industry that can revitalize rural and local economies, create jobs, and develop prosperity for the state as it seeks to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions,” said Gov. Beshear.