Steve Boles doles out thoughtful commentary about all the latest issues, news blips and misconceptions surrounding the growing green movement as a contributor to Red, White, and Blue and his personal blog The Buzz (http://thebuzz.kuzuka.com).
Steve spent seven years working as a scientist at one of the world’s leading climate change research centers, the Institute for Earth Oceans and Space (EOS) at the University of New Hampshire. Steve recently moved his family to small-town Ontario, Canada.
Steve and his wife, Jenni, recently co-founded a company called Kuzuka. Kuzuka is a marketplace for carbon offsets that will bring a whole new level of convenience and confidence to individuals and businesses choosing to offset their tread on this planet. Kuzuka also provides carbon management services to businesses that are interested in measuring and reducing their corporate carbon footprint.
Canada has played a waiting game for the past several months, anticipating a joint cap-and-trade system with the USA. Now it appears the two countries will be dealing with greenhouse gases on their own.
The carbon footprint of the President has been estimated at 41,000 tons per year, equal to the annual amount emitted by about 2200 American households. As the new champion of green energy and energy efficiency, should President Obama’s office be looking for ways to reduce his carbon footprint?
After a hectic and frenzied week in the blogosphere the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced it won’t ban black cars in the state “at this time”.
Population control is an issue that no-one wants to talk about - even the environmental leaders. Why has this become such a poisonous topic when it is so clear that it is needed to avoid catastrophic resource depletion?
Global warming and climate change are becoming harder topics to sell to the American people. Climate change proponents shouldn’t give up their fight - but it is time for them to change their tune.
How will the market for ‘green products’ be affected by this recession?
Americans tend to view Canada as the peaceful and friendly country up north, and they know that Canadians have trouble saying ‘out’ and ‘about’. But other than that Canada is not often on American’s radar screens…
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