A U.N. conference in Copenhagen next month is due to agree a new pact to combat global warming after mounting evidence that human activity is disrupting the climate. The following is a timeline of the discovery of global warming. 300 BC – Theophrastus, a student of Greek philosopher Aristotle, documents that human activity can affect [...]

People often talk as if warming temperatures are the only evidence of human-induced global climate change. But the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also has increased dramatically. For most of the past 800,000 years, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations ranged from about 180 to 280 parts per million. Today, it is 387 parts per [...]

Ernest Hemingway must be reaching for a bottle of grappa in his grave. The snows of Kilimanjaro—inspirations for a Hemingway story of the same name—could be gone by 2022, a new study confirms. The ice atop Kilimanjaro “continues to diminish right on schedule for disappearing, unfortunately, in the next couple of decades,” said glaciologist Lonnie [...]

A survey of 40 firms suggests that there’s money to be made fighting climate change The public discourse on climate change has tended to frame the issue as a tradeoff between development and greening; as a choice between generating wealth and creating a less carbon-intensive environment. With United Nations talks in Copenhagen aimed at negotiating [...]

Stripping down from 390ppm to 350ppm – that’s the target of 350.org as portrayed in last Saturday’s international day of climate change. Check out this hot video!……………

Ecopreneur recently asked Lisl Lain of Green Door Consulting to come up with an  CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR adapted for the South African conditions. This calculator quantifies your household’s carbon emissions from the three most important sources: electricity consumption, car travel and air travel. The Eskom emissions factor used is from Eskom’s 2008 report (the figure [...]

This may seem a bit obvious if you live in what sometimes seems like the green bubble, but a new survey by Kelton Research, done at the behest of Schott Solar and the Solar Energy Industry Association, shows that 92% of US citizens think it’s important that the nation develop and use solar power. What’s [...]

Earlier this year we caught word that the EU might force universal cell phone chargers onto manufacturers. “Force” is a little rough…more like “require them to be environmentally responsible and simply logical and quit manufacturing planned obsolescence and exclusivity into piles of plastic and wires.” Last week, a universal charger was approved by the International [...]