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Climate Change - Part 1: The Albedo

Climate Change - Part 1: The Albedo

This is the first of articles to describe the main factors driving the warming and climate changes of the Earth. This is the first of articles to describe the main factors driving the warming and climate changes of the Earth. I will start with the most (...)

25 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Giovanni Macchia

Foxes in Flanders

Foxes in Flanders

I saw a fox this morning. Here in the village just around the corner from our house. Not sure if this is a usual sight. We live here near river and the area has a truly rural character, with farmer fields, meadows and woods. Thanks to the unusual (...)

15 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Jana Hruba

GDS International: Global Warming Scam?

GDS International: Global Warming Scam?

Richard Tarboton talks for MeettheBoss.TV on his role as Head of Energy & Carbon for BT and what they are doing towards reducing carbon emissions. Normal 0 21

30 Nov. 2009 | | JF-Online

NG O&G Summit welcomes Neil Bush and Karl Rove

NG O&G Summit welcomes Neil Bush and Karl Rove

The latest in the highly anticipated NG O&G summit has just taken place in New Orleans. Today, energy is at a crossroads. While the energy crisis has made its mark in the media the industry met to discuss the impacts on the sector. It is of utmost (...)

20 Nov. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Sharing Of Green Technology ? A Bogus In The Climate Debate

Sharing Of Green Technology ? A Bogus In The Climate Debate

By Eberhard Rhein. 50 days ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Conference a new theme re-enters the debate between developed and developing countries : free transfer of green energy technologies to developing countries. India and China are particularly (...)

29 oct. 2009 | | Blogactiv Team

Greening the next green revolution

Greening the next green revolution

By Kathleen Blake Bohne. There is no change in our daily lives as revolutionary, or as taken for granted, as the transformation of food production in the past century. Scientific and technological advances have allowed us to feed a human population that (...)

27 oct. 2009 | | openDemocracy

Europe Bans 100 Watt Lightbulbs

Don’t laugh, people, they’re saving the planet. The ban could save the EU anywhere from 15 to 53 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, says Matt Prescott, founder of the Ban the Bulb campaign. And the UK could save 2 to 5 million tonnes of the (...)

3 sep. 2009 | 3 comments | Rob Port

French town seeks elephant ban from beach

On the northwestern coast of France in the department of Manche there’s a small town called Granville - population around 13,000. It dates back to the 12th century and is of course steeped in history, much of it military and religious, plus it has (...)

20 Aug. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

’We Have Met The Enemy & He Is Us’

'We Have Met The Enemy & He Is Us'

In a recent email exchange with Dave Schuler of The Glittering Eye, he summed up beautifully why the illustrator of the late great Pogo comic strip was such a powerful yet endearing cartoonist. "We could use Walt Kelly about now," Dave said. "Criticism (...)

13 Jul. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

An iceberg in Paris

An iceberg in Paris

Anyone in the French capital on Tuesday might have done something of a double take as they passed along the river Seine. Because not far away from the city’s world-famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower, they would have seen an iceberg. It was, of (...)

8 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Chicago’s green roofs and our failed stimulus

I was completely floored (and excited) to read this article about how the Sears Tower in Chicago (recently renamed the Willis Tower) is to undergo a $350M green retrofit that will give it a green roof and it’s own wind turbines. This will reduce the (...)

6 jui. 2009 | | David Eaves

Google’s new ‘PowerMeter’ sparks excitement at the NGU Europe Summit

Next Generation Utilities Summit

It is not very often the words ‘Google’ and ‘energy-saving’ appear in the same sentence. However, in Portugal last week at the industry-leading Next Generation Utilities Summit, over 50 European Utility leaders were presented with (...)

1 Jul. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Paris bans 79-year-old from tending abandoned graves

Paris bans 79-year-old from tending abandoned graves

It’s perhaps just one of those everyday stories that illustrates how rigid bureaucracy can sometimes be, and also how rules are applied that seem to fly in the face of common sense. A 79-year-old woman has been served with an injunction by (...)

30 Jun. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Flushing out the Truth on Sewage

Flushing out the Truth on Sewage

Today Ecojustice released Flushing Out the Truth, a report highlighting the tens of billions of litres of untreated sewage that are knowingly allowed to flow into the Great Lakes each year because of the province’s inadequate sewage system. Much (...)

30 Jun. 2009 | | Kori

Blacksmith Institute in Kyrgyzstan "Mailuu Suu radioactive tailings continue to pose risk"

Mailuu Suu residents dig for radioactive scrap metal

Ryskeldi Satke- What’s the history of Blacksmith project "Mailuu Suu" in Kyrgyzstan? Vladimir Kuznetsov - The problem of Mailuu-Suu region has been partially (along with the other regions) raised in our first micro-project in 2007 which (...)

12 Jun. 2009 | | Ryskeldi Satke

Environmentalism and the state: destroying progress and capital

Environmentalism and the state: destroying progress and capital

As a replacement for these bulbs, ’energy efficient’ fluorescent light bulbs are planned to replace the incandescent light bulb, by the force of law. All of the production lines that used to produce the incandescent light bulb have either (...)

9 Jun. 2009 | | Blogdial

In support of the Coral Trinagle

A study, commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature - WWF, just released gives a frightening, chilling warning: coral reefs would disappear from the Coral Triangle by the end of this century unless effective action is taken on climate change. (...)

19 May. 2009 | | Moments In Words From Hadhramout

Young activist who countered Bush admin’s anti-environment move now gets felony charges

Tim DeChristopher

Last week, University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher was charged with two felonies for disrupting a December 2008 auction of over 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling. "This auction was a fraud against the American people and a (...)

14 Apr. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Commercial Hunting Endangers Rare Central Asian Sheep Species

Marco Polo sheep hunting

Wildlife researchers are concerned a rare sub-species of Central Asian sheep known as Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) is under threat of extinction because of widespread commercial hunting in Central Asian states such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. (...)

31 Mar. 2009 | 9 comments | Ryskeldi Satke

11th Hour Reprieve Today for One Mile of Planet Earth

Photo shows results of toxic aerial spray

An 11th hour lawsuit against the US Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security buys time for creatures of 1000 living species that are slated for demolition along a 1.1 mile stretch of the US-Mexico border. Residents of local (...)

26 Mar. 2009 | 3 comments | Billie Greenwood

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