Posts Tagged ‘Global Warming’

RTI a tool for Environmental Protection

Monday, August 30th, 2010
Accra, Aug. 30, GNA - Issues of environmental protection, climate change and global warming have in recent times assumed centre stage of discussions in Ghana with various organizations and institutions running workshops and seminars to educate the public on the need to adopt measures to defend Our Earth through healthy environmental practices.

Landfill or incineration: the climate change dilemma

Monday, April 5th, 2010
An incinerator planned for Durham Region raises big questions about contributions to global warming.

Landfill or incineration: the climate change dilemma

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
An incinerator planned for Durham Region raises big questions about contributions to global warming.

US infrastructure crumbling while money continues to flow into the Middle East and around the world to build infrastructure for our enemies – air quality, pollution, global warming, US infrastructure, Afghanistan and Iraq –

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The economic well-being of the United States is dependent on the reliability, safety, and security of its physical infrastructure. The nation’s infrastructure is vast and affects the daily lives of virtually all Americans. In total, there are about 4 million miles of roads, 117,000 miles of rail, 600,000 bridges, 79,000 dams, 26,000 miles of commercially navigable waterways, 11,000 miles of transit lines, 500 train stations, 300 ports, 19,000 airports,5 55,000 community drinking water systems, a

The Holy Grail of clean energy economy is in sight: Affordable storage for wind and solar

Monday, August 31st, 2009
Enabling safe, clean energy that will never run out is a key to averting catastrophic climate change. Roughly half the “solution” to global warming is solar and wind [see " How the world can (and will) stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm "]. Of course, many U.S. concentrated solar plants will use low-cost, high-efficiency thermal storage . In the longer term, plug-in hybrids and electric cars are likely to play a key role in storage, if issues surrounding battery life can be solved and/or battery