Matthew McDermott

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Ballard Sees Positive Developments in Fuel Cell Material Handling Market
Ballard Power Systems sees great potential in material handling applications powered by Ballard fuel cell stacks
Where have all the flowers gone?
It is said one of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators, especially bees, for a successful harvest. If this is true, what happens to us when the bees are gone?
How Are China's Overseas Investments Affecting the Environment?
Chinese overseas investments are rapidly increasing, A significant amount of this increasing OFDI goes to the energy and resources sectors-much of it in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
South Korea on course to have the world's highest Carbon Prices
In a little over 18 months, South Korea will launch a scheme that will cap around 70% of its greenhouse gas emissions.
Funding available for Cleaner Fossil Fuel Production
CCEMC is offering up to $50 million in funding for projects that can reduce emissions from fossil fuel production and processing.

Matthew McDermott

Editor - Business, Politics & Energy, TreeHugger.com, USA

Mat McDermott edits the Business and Energy sections of Discovery Communication's TreeHugger.com, as well as writing about resource consumption, animal welfare issues and the response of religious communities to environmental problems. Driving his work are two main convictions: 1) Our current environmental problems-climate change, biodiversity losses, peak fossil fuels, natural resource over consumption-are but symptoms of the greater problem of fetishizing material economic growth; and 2) only by first changing our minds, recognizing the literal and metaphorical interconnected nature of all life, will we make the lasting external changes required to create an ecologically sustainable civilization. In addition to his work with TreeHugger, Mat is an advisor for The Bhumi Project, "a worldwide Hindu response to environmental issues facing our planet...facilitated by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies."