Green Options

Commercial ships set out for the first time to navigate the open waters of Russia’s Northeast Passage.

Better Place and Renault announce plans to produce up to 160,000 electric vehicles in Denmark and Israel by 2011

The trail of blame leads in all directions as new revelations continue over forged letters sent from lobbying firm Bonner & Associates to at least three House members urging a no vote on the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill . Calls for Congress and the Department of Justice to investigate begin to mount as well.

About one thousand miles off the coast of California, in an isolated area of the north Pacific ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre, a slowly rotating whirlpool of water swirls in a giant clockwise spiral. At the center of the swirling mass of water sits a relatively still center, inviting the accumulation of whatever debris swirls into it.

Created by a high pressure system of trade and westerly winds, all the oceans of the world have massive, slow-moving gyres. While oceans across the globe have accumulated debris, the north Pacific Gyre is known to have amassed at its core the largest. This giant debris field, commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is estimated to be as large as the state of Texas (some sources say twice the size of Texas).

Scientists and researchers from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography have begun new research on the nature and origin of the Great Pacific Patch, as well as its effect on the local ecosystem and global food chain.

Great Wolf Resorts achieves Green Seal status and starts its own in-house sustainability program called Project Green Wolf

Representative Tom Perriello was sent at least five forged letters purportedly from constituent groups urging him to vote against the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill.

New research examining thousands of records show Earth’s sixth “great extinction event” already underway.

GOP House reps attempt to force a floor vote on a bill to block EPA regulation of Greenhouse gasses under the Clean Air Act

The Senate Foreign Committee convened a hearing to assess the threat climate change poses on national and global security.

Chevron Corp. has filed an appeal in California State Court of Appeals in hopes of overturning a lower courts ruling halting the planned expansion of its Richmond, California facility on the grounds it does not meet the standards for greenhouse gas mititgation and reporting as laid out in new provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act.