Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings: The “Low Hanging Fruit” of Mitigation

Summary .   A conference on energy efficiency in public buildings was held recently in Connecticut .   Energy efficiency retrofitting projec...

America’s Climate Choices: The U. S. National Academies Report

Summary .   The U. S. National Academies has issued a report, America’s Climate Choices , assessing climate change and strongly recommendin...

Decreased Worldwide Crop Yields Are Tied to Global Warming

[Note: This post is revised from the original version posted May 10, 2011 by the addition of the section on the article by Zhao and Runnin...

Wind Energy: A Growing Source of Renewable Energy

Summary .   Wind energy plays a small but growing role in the world’s energy economy.   The European Union has the objective of reducing gre...