Climate 411

This post is by Eric Holst, Manager, Center for Conservation Incentives, Environmental Defense.

Everyone can do something to help stop global warming. Here’s an example…

When California passed the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), California rice growers wanted to explore ways to lower their net emissions. But exactly how to go about doing this wasn’t clear, so Environmental Defense teamed up with the California Rice Commission to work on the challenge.

As in other sectors of agriculture, rice farms both produce greenhouse gas emissions (mainly in the form of methane) and sequester carbon in field vegetation and soils. Our two-year project, launched in October, seeks to develop precise techniques – voluntarily implemented – to reduce emissions and increase sequestration, and to quantify emission benefits.

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This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.

Are you thinking about climate-related New Year’s resolutions? In addition to this list of ideas from our Web site, here are some articles we’ve posted on green living that can give you some ideas.

Your Home:

• Personal Impact: Does It Really Matter What You Do? (easy-to-do tips)
• Making the Invisible Visible (energy usage feedback devices)
• The Next Big (Light bulb) Idea (LEDs)
• Why Switch to Compact Fluorescents?
• Heating with Lightbulbs: A Bad Idea
• Food Miles: Is Local Always Better?
• Energy-Efficient Mortgages: It Pays to Go Green

Your Car:

• Turn Off Your Engine!  
• Tips for Cleaner Driving
• To Drive Less, Live Closer to Work

This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.

As 2007 draws to a close, we also approach the end of our blog’s first year. Well, okay, it started in February, but it’s close. We’ve tried to bring you a blend of the science and policy of climate change, and be a resource for you in explaining these issues to others. How’ve we been doing? We want your feedback!

We also need your help in another quarter. The end of the year means fundraising for non-profits like ours. We rely on you to fund the important work we do.

Please donate now, and here’s wishing for a cool, green New Year for us all!

This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.

Sometimes it can seem like we’re not making any progress at all on the global warming front, but we are! Here are ten important policy victories from 2007.

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This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.

If you need some last minute gift inspiration, check out our annual round-up of earth-friendly ideas.

We’ll be off for a few days, so we won’t be posting again until next Thursday. Have a great holiday.

This post is by Lisa Moore, Ph.D., a scientist in the Climate and Air program at Environmental Defense.

All year long we’ve been monitoring developments in climate science, and posting about the important new developments. I thought now would be a good time to look back over 2007 and summarize what we’ve learned.

Here are ten noteworthy science stories we covered in 2007:

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