South Korea
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With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival
Hitting the 1.5-degrees C goal would require a radical rethink in almost every aspect of society. But not meeting the goal would upend life as we know it, too.
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Critical List: Other countries manage to pass climate change laws; Greenpeace is busy
Plants are freaking out about climate change: Their timing for flowering and leafing is even more off than climate models predicted. Also, species extinction could be a major driver of climate change and keep the environment from producing awesome resources like … food. South Korea’s parliament approved a cap-and-trade plan. Kenya and Peru are also […]
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South Korea will create 1.5 million green energy jobs
Going green costs jobs? Tell that to South Korea. The country plans to create 1.5 million jobs — and, not for nothing, 328 trillion won ($304 billion) in new exports — by increasing investment in green energy. Oh, also, South Korea predicts that this new commitment to renewables — which will include solar, wind, fuel […]
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Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again
This downtown green space in Seoul was once a looming, congested elevated freeway.Photo: Kyle NishiokaCross-posted from Sightline’s Daily Score blog. As a sustainability-loving transportation planner, I was thrilled to learn that Dr. Kee Yeon Hwang would be visiting Vancouver and talking about the project that has made Seoul, Korea a legend in urban planning circles: […]
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The Recovery Act: the most important energy bill in American history
If the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) had been an energy bill, it would arguably have been the single-most important piece of clean energy legislation in our nation’s history. It drove unprecedented new investments — both public and private — into modernizing America’s clean energy infrastructure. And its clean energy provisions alone have already […]
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A small venture that could generate big results
Imagine a program that turns a relatively small initial investment into billions of dollars of U.S. economic growth, thousands of new Americans jobs, and groundbreaking technologies that change the way we use energy in this country and around the world. It's called the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and it is about to be given the bureaucratic equivalent of a death sentence.
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Mammoth trucks en route to Canada’s tar sands threaten Montana
Imperial Oil has contracted to transport giant machines from South Korea through Idaho and Montana to Canada’s Athabaskan tar-sands project in Alberta
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Seoul reengineers a freeway into a stream [VIDEO]
Photo: Fast Company Most metropolis’ are so busy building the future that they don’t have time to re-think the past. Not so with Seoul, South Korea. In 2003, the city demolished a downtown freeway to restore an ancient stream that once flowed beneath the thoroughfare. More than 75 percent of the scrap material from the […]
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80 percent of the world’s emissions are taking steps to curb their global warming pollution
As I mentioned here by the end of January countries were to register their actions to reduce global warming pollution as agreed under the Copenhagen Accord. And by deadline countries accounting for over 80 percent of the world's global warming pollution (and a bit more) have registered their actions to reduce their pollution. So what does this all mean?