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Would you rather: a.) Shovel out your driveway after a big snowstorm or b.) Pay your utility bills in January? Unfortunately, most of us don’t actually get to choose whether or not to pay our utility bills – that is, if we want to keep coming home to a warm house this winter. However, you can choose to perform some DIY upgrades in your home that will at least help you lower the amount of money you’re spending to heat your home this winter. Here are five energy efficiency improvements you can make to save money on your utilities and lower your heating bill: 1. Seal your ducts The Problem : Many older duct systems were originally sealed with duct tape, which can break down overtime, creating air leaks in your ductwork. This causes two problems
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How to lower your heating cost: 5 DIY tips
China Moves Toward Carbon Emissions Trading to Improve Energy Efficiency and Competitiveness When professor Chen Hongbo tried to promote carbon trading in China three years ago, he found himself under fire. As developing countries like China aren’t obliged to limit the byproduct of their economic growth, opponents argued vehemently that they saw no need to motivate Chinese industries to either emit less greenhouse gases or pay for their emissions. Today, China is still free of that obligation, but the internal dispute seems to have ended. In its proposed development plan for the next five years, the government has for the first time revealed its interest in building a domestic carbon market.
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Energy and global warming news for January 11, 2011: China moves toward carbon emissions trading
by Jess Zimmerman. By now you know the basic story: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday while appearing at a “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson. The shooting killed six , among them a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Giffords herself seems to be responding to stimuli despite being gravely injured. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody, and while we don’t know anything definitive about his motives, many Democrats are pointing out that Giffords — a Blue Dog in a red state — was frequently the target of violent political rhetoric . You’ve probably already heard about Giffords’ stance on immigration — she opposed Arizona’s controversial SB-1070 — and her vote for health care reform, which was cited as the reason for earlier threats (to which her responses now seem eerily prophetic ). But now, still reeling from the tragedy, those of us outside Arizona are starting to learn more about Giffords’ stance on issues that have not been violently charged, including energy and environment
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Giffords has environmental cred
Looks like Cheney’s pro-pollution, pro-rich policies aren’t as effective as even Obama’s modest clean energy, middle-class-oriented ones. ThinkProgress has the story in this cross-post : This morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs , knocking the unemployment rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — its lowest rate since July 2009…. October and November’s jobs numbers were also revised upward by almost 80,000 each. Still, 14.5 million Americans remain unemployed , and jobs will have to be created much faster in coming months for the country to pull itself out of the economic doldrums.
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Obama created more jobs in one year than Bush created in eight
The incoming Republican chairs of the House of Representatives plan to send the United States back to the Stone Age with respect to climate policy. All of them opposed the climate legislation supported by President Barack Obama, and now oppose limits on global warming pollution under the Clean Air Act. Several have accused climate scientists of doctoring data and suppressing dissent; the others merely claim climate policy is actually a conspiracy to destroy the American economy. Brad Johnson has the line-up of climate zombies who will be in charge of developing all federal legislation for the next two years: Financial Services: Spencer Bachus (AL) .
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Climate zombies now run House of Representatives