I wasn’t sure how to break THIS NEWS to my two dogs. [S]pecialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos (360 pounds) of meat and 95 kilos of cereal a year. Combine the land required to generate its food and a “medium” sized […]

Those of us that are waiting (not so) patiently for legislative action of one of three “pillars” of the Obama administration’s reform goals (health insurance reform, green energy/climate protection, and education reform) got a bit of seemingly bad news this past week. As Politico, Senators John Kerry and Harry Reid have indicated that work on the climate change bills (yes, […]

The battle for the hearts and minds of Americans regarding global climate change is over. Well, according to the lead climate change denier in the Senate, James Inhofe. Pointing to what he sees as the collapse of the upcoming global summit on climate change in Copenhagen and Senate Majority Leader Reid’s postponing of action on the Kerry-Boxer climate change/green energy […]

Today is the day that Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer will release the Senate version of the so-called Cap-and-Trade bill, their version of the bill Representatives Waxman and Markey got passed in the House earlier this year. And, surprise, surprise (really!), it’s stronger than the House bill. The Washington Post got a sneak peak at a nearly-completed version of […]

In November of 2007, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order establishing the Michigan Climate Action Council (MCAC). Over the course of the next 16 months, the MCAC, a collection of stakeholders from across the spectrum, developed a 125-page document, the Michigan Climate Action Council Climate Action Plan [.pdf] which contains 53 recommendations for reducing the impacts of climate […]