By G. Rendell That’s not the amount of CO2 you emit each and every day, but it might just be the amount you’re responsible for. One of the challenges with getting people (including, but by no means limited to, students) to really believe in the impact of greenhouse gases is that the one everybody talks [...]

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From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 50-Year Model Suggests Regional Pollution Obscured a Global Trend Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a “warming hole” over the eastern United States—that is, a cold patch where the [...]

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Water scarcity impacts at least 2.7 billion people in 201 river basins for at least one month each year, according to a new report published in the online journal PLoS ONE from the Public Library of Science. “Global Monthly Water Scarcity: Blue Water Footprints versus Blue Water Availability”,  analyzed 405 river basins around the world, [...]

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Good Jobs, Green Jobs Regional Conferences are coming up this spring. Speakers, informative workshops and thought-provoking sessions with labor, business, and environmental leaders.  Exploring opportunities and growth areas for green employment. Southern Regional Conference — February 23 and 24 in Atlanta, GA at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta Western Regional Conference -  March 15-16 at the [...]

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Panama Research and Learning Experience through Penn State CHANCE Summer Embedded Program  Two courses: Online and in the field Global Climate Change: Sustainability of Select Tropical and Aquatic Ecosystems (online; March-May, 2012 ) with a Field Practicum in Panama (July 6-22, 2012). The first course is online and will prepare participants for actual field work [...]

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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence In August 2011 mild-mannered Stanford professor, Sebastian Thrun, offered his course in Artificial Intelligence online with free enrollment for anyone -  160,000 thousand signed-up. Remarkably (well maybe not so remarkably, this is a computer science guy) he was able to accommodate all who wanted to virtually attend. As Reuter’s Felix Salmon [...]

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Electric cars are lighting up the North American International Auto Show.  The atmosphere is exceedingly electric at Cobo Hall in Detroit as car manufacturers kick off 2012 with a shot of green.  This year’s new offerings  show that style is not going to take a back seat to function.  There’s a green gull wing from [...]

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Evan Litwin, graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, has written a paper that takes an intriguing and alarming look at the interrelationship between climate change, sea level rise, human migration and conflict in the Indo-Pacific region: a region that is spread out across thousands of islands, which are home to as many groups and [...]

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By Betsy Crowfoot Originally published in Ecology Today A child born in 2011 enters an environment vastly different than that of his grandparents.  They might have been born 50-60 years ago when the color television was a new-fangled invention and the planet had less than half the occupants it does at present. He might live [...]

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  HOME is such an appropriate name to describe the content of this film; it is amazing how just a word can cover so many ideas, so many thoughts and so many feelings related to all those who live in what we call HOME “The Earth.” This film offers a different perception of the earth [...]

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