The green economy could create “tens of millions” of new jobs

September 30, 2008

With day after day of poor economic news, it was heartening to about a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Green Jobs: Towards Decent work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World.

UNEP reports that efforts to curb the climate change are aly creating new, green jobs in both developed and developing world economies, and project that that trend will continue, growing stronger as the industries mature.

The report defines “green” jobs as ones that “reduce t…

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A Cleaner, Greener Freezer from Greenpeace and Ben and Jerry’s

September 30, 2008

Even though you hate to think about it, keeping frozen treats like ice cream cold is one of the (so many) human activities that contribute to global warming.

But hang on a minute before you decide to give up all things icy and delicious in order to reduce your carbon foot. Ben and Jerry’s, with the encouragement and help from Greenpeace, are trying out new kind of hydrocarbon freezer that uses a different kind of coolant.

Freezers in the U.S. use the notorious “F” gases that are inc…

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Cell phone software tracks your personal carbon emissions

September 29, 2008

Need more personal measurements to get obsessed with? Not to distress — a London-based software developer has come up with a carbon calculator that constantly measure your environmental impact.

The calculator, creatively called Carbon Diem, works by using GPS to see how fast you’re moving and figuring out what mode of transportation you’re currently using.

Then it calculates the amount of CO2 you’re producing. By working in the background, the user doesn’t have to do anything to fi…

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Melting polar ice cap viewable on Google Earth

September 22, 2008

Google Earth has proven to be a helpful tool for those interested in monitoring climate change and its effect on the planet. They’ve had add-ons to their free program that show the harmful devastation to Earth in real instance, such as deforestation, climate change, air pollution and now the melting of the polar ice caps.

This downloadable software add-on shows sea ice trends, floating buoy tracks, snow cover, brightness, infrared, win, temperature, atmospheric pressure, iceberg tracks an…

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Volt video: Proof that GM’s electric car actually works

September 22, 2008

Considering GM’s track record, I definitely had reservations that the most anticipated EV would somehow dissolve and never find its way to consumers — like the EV1, ahem. And while it’s still not at the local dealership, GM pulled back the curtain last week and let the media take a good distant gander at the struggling automaker’s hope for the next century. By most accounts, things are looking pretty positive for 2010.

This week, not only do we get pictures of what the Volt will look lik…

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Rubber ducky you’re the one - to track glacial melt

September 22, 2008

As that year’s extreme Arctic ice melt puts doomsayers on high heads up, NASA scientists are resorting to some highly unorthodox methods to attempt to determine what’s going on in some of Greenland’s largest ice flows — including the rubber ducky method. Sure, rubber ducky makes bath duration lots of fun, but now he’s back and it’s not to help Sesame Street instill the virtues of personal hygiene into young children — he’s involved in some serious scientific research.

Scientists studyin…

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Safe sex toys revisited

September 8, 2008

A while back we posted about sex toys that could be cancerous. And soon after, considering we saw that you seemed to be interested in that subject, we posted about toys that were safe and where you could get them.

Like most things there is always more to learn about the safety of your sex toys, both in terms of chemicals and handling. Violet Blue is a sex columnist, blogger, author and podcaster of all things sex. (A note to parents, her site does contain some nudity, you must be 18 to en…

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