Please join our efforts for the earth by saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in your own life. Follow these tips and start living the green life today.

Tip # 1

Get on Your Bike!

For every mile you ride your bike instead of driving a car, you avoid the production of about one pound of carbon dioxide.

Tip # 2

Save Water with Powder Detergents

Switch from liquid detergents to powders. Laundry liquids are mostly water (approx. 80%). It costs energy and packaging to bring this water to the consumer.

On Monday, May 14th, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will consider the Center for Biological Diversity's challenge to the Bush administration's national fuel-economy standards for SUVs and pickup trucks. The lawsuit asserts that the government violated the Environmental Policy and Conservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act by ignoring greenhouse gas emissions and global warming when setting the fuel-economy standards for model year 2008-2011 SUVs and pickup trucks.

The transportation sector is responsible for nearly one-third of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the vehicles in question in this case will produce approximately 2.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide over their lifetimes. This vast amount of pollution is nearly six times the entire annual emissions of the State of California, which emits approximately 471 million metric tons each year. Carbon dioxide is a leading contributor to global warming, which threatens climatic and biological stability worldwide.

A new ranking of Europe’s worst climate-polluting power stations reveals the least efficient power stations in Europe with the biggest emissions of carbon dioxide.

The WWF ranking — the Dirty Thirty — lists Greece’s Agios Dimitrios and Kardia (owned by DEH) as the dirtiest power stations, followed by Niederaußem in Germany (owned by RWE).

Golden, Colo. — May 7, 2007 — The City of Golden has partnered with the Institute for Environmental Solutions (IES) to conduct the Golden Tree Project, a scientifically-based approach to increasing the environmental benefits from Golden’s urban forest.

“The right tree in the right place can lower energy and water consumption, improve air quality, and reduce the effects of global warming,” said Carol Lyons, IES executive director. “Through this collaboration, Golden will be a leader in demonstrating the potential of trees to reduce the negative effects of urban development on our environment.”

The goal of the Tree Project is to identify how trees can be used to optimize energy and water conservation, air quality, and carbon sequestration, a key element in global warming. IES team members will collect tree and building information at selected sites throughout Golden. This information will be evaluated to develop recommendations to obtain the greatest environmental benefits from the City’s urban forest.