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Clinton Foundation to Work to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| New York Times: The Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit organization that has focused on combating AIDS, poverty and childhood obesity, will turn its attention to greenhouse gases, former President Bill Clinton said here Tuesday. Mr. Clinton announced his new initiative at the University of California, Los Angeles, hours after the California Environmental Protection Agency released a report predicting that the state would become hotter and drier by the end of the century. California, like the ... |
Colorado Resort to Invest Heavily in Wind Power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| New York Times: Vail Resorts, the big Colorado ski and recreation company, said Tuesday that it would make a huge investment in wind power, buying enough credits to offset all the power needed for its resorts, retail stores and office buildings. The announcement makes Vail the second-largest corporate buyer of wind energy in the nation, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, after Whole Foods Market Inc., the big supermarket chain that went to all wind power earlier this ... |
Heat Wave is Drying Up Europe's Water Resources (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Deutsche Welle: The record temperatures in July have had a dramatic effect on Europe's water resources. Many lakes and rivers are at record lows, aggravating problems already caused by bad water management. The heat wave that has gripped Europe this summer has been breaking records across the continent. In Germany, dramatically high temperatures made this July the second hottest since 1901. A 1911 record for the highest July temperature in Britain was broken when a village in Surrey hit 36.5 degrees ... |
United States: Is Climate Change to Blame for 'Dead Zone'? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| ABC News: Scientists have struggled to understand a huge "dead zone" that has formed off the coast of Oregon every summer for the last five years, killing marine life over a wide area. Unlike the dead zones in areas like the northern Gulf of Mexico, which are caused primarily by agricultural runoff, this appears to be a somewhat natural phenomenon. However, global climate change resulting from human activities may be partly responsible. For the first time, the Oregon dead zone ... |
The Big Question: What is carbon trading, and can it save the world from global warming? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Independent: Why are we asking the question now? Britain and California, the most populous American state, are to sign a new carbon trading agreement. It is particularly significant because it appears to be a snub to President George Bush's decision to renounce the Kyoto treaty which set targets for reducing emissions of the gases that are blamed for global warming. Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, is also set to announce an agreement between the United Kingdom capital and Los Angeles. The ... |
22 of world's largest cities join effort to limit global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Washington Post: Twenty-two of the world's largest cities announced Tuesday they will work together to limit their contributions to global warming in an effort led by former President Bill Clinton. The Clinton Climate Initiative -- which will create an international consortium to bargain for cheaper energy-efficient products and share ideas on cutting greenhouse gas pollution -- includes Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York as well as Cairo, Egypt; Delhi, India; London and Mexico City. ... |
Clinton Launches Major Effort to Fight Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Voice of America: Former President Clinton has launched an initiative with several of the world's largest cities to reduce global warming. Mr. Clinton announced Tuesday in the western U.S. city of Los Angeles, California that his foundation has formed a partnership with the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The initiative will help cities pool their resources in order to purchase cheaper energy-saving products. It will also offer technical assistance ... |
Clinton Unveils Global Warming Initiative (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| LA Times: On a stage of political all-stars Tuesday afternoon at UCLA, former President Clinton announced a new initiative to help cities combat global warming. Joined by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and London Mayor Ken Livingstone, Clinton laid out the challenges ahead. "We have to reduce about 80% of our greenhouse gases over the next 10 years," said Clinton, whose foundation sponsored the ... |
Desertification a Growing Concern (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Voice of America: Desertification is the gradual and dangerous degradation of productive land into useless desert. Land experts have been concerned about the process for two decades. The United Nations declared 2006 the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Forty percent of our planet's land is considered dry land, vulnerable to become arid, infertile and desert-like. The United Nations has called desertification "a major threat to humanity" and "one of the world's most ... |
Eastern United States Swelters Through Heat Wave (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Reuters: Parts of the eastern United States began sweltering through a forecast three-day heat wave on Tuesday with the mercury topping 100 F (38 C) in some areas and New York City electricity demand setting a new record. The heat wave moved across the country from California, which suffered more than two weeks of triple-digit temperatures that killed at least 136 people and caused power failures. Temperatures hit or hovered near 100 degrees Fahrenheit in New York, Philadelphia and ... |
EU Presses 14 States Over Late CO2 Emissions Plans (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Reuters: The European Commission is sending letters to 14 European Union states that have not turned in their new carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) plans, pressing them to submit details within a month or face legal action. EU states were supposed to have sent their National Allocation Plans (NAPs) outlining how much CO2 their industries can emit in the 2008-2012 period by June 30, but nearly all 25 nations missed the deadline. The emissions trading scheme is the EU's key instrument to ... |
Firm Tries to Chip Away at Semiconductor Waste (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| LA Times: Bill Delaney's business model is simple: Garbage in, dollars out. The computer industry veteran runs TecHarmonic Inc., a San Jose company that specializes in cleaning up the hazardous gases created in semiconductor manufacturing. Contrary to the public picture of chip making – technicians in white "bunny" suits working in pristine labs, churning out perfect copy after perfect copy of their microscopic wonders – it is a highly polluting business whose byproducts ... |
July 2006: Hottest on Record? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Discovery: It''s official: July 2006 was one of the warmest months on record for the lower 48 U.S. states, according to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). "The persistence of the unusually hot temperatures has made the past month one of the warmest since records began in 1895 for the contiguous U.S.," said Jay Lawrimore, chief of the climate monitoring branch of NOAA''s NCDC in Asheville, N.C. "We will not know for another two days if the record warm national record set in ... |
Major world cities team up to fight global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Reuters: Los Angeles, London, New York, Seoul and 18 other cities joined forces on Tuesday in a global warming project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Launched by former President Bill Clinton's foundation, the initiative will allow cities to pool their purchasing power and lower the price of energy-saving products and provide technical assistance to help them become more energy efficient. Urban areas are responsible for more than 75 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, ... |
Ocean Planet: Risky chemistry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer: It's easy to assume the oceans, covering most of the planet, are big enough to shake off any environmental damage from human activity. But, just as we are changing the climate, we are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the oceans, for the worse. As the Seattle P-I's Tom Paulson reported last month, scientists have found the oceans are absorbing tons of carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels. The ocean's acidity has begun to change in the upper layers of water, which are ... |
Indonesia: Riau administration seizes burned land (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Jakarta Post: Alarmed by the international haze spread by burning forests, the Riau provincial administration is moving to seize land that has been cleared by burning. The move is an effort to make it easier for authorities to track the financiers who are behind the burning of thousands of hectares of forests to be turned into plantations. Thick and hazardous smoke from forest fires has reportedly traveled as far as neighboring Singapore and Malaysia. Riau Governor Rusli Zainal said ... |
Senate Approves More Offshore Drilling in Gulf, Sets up Confrontation with House (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Associated Press: The Senate voted Tuesday to open 8.3 million acres of federal waters in the central Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, setting up a confrontation with the House which wants even more drilling in waters now off-limits. Supporters said the measure would be a major step toward producing more domestic energy and forcing down natural gas prices that have soared in recent years. The Senate approved the measure by a vote of 71-25. It now must be reconciled with much broader ... |
United States: Vail casts its fate to wind power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Rocky Mountain News: Vail Resorts Inc. will buy enough renewable energy to cover electricity use for all of its ski areas, hotels and headquarters, making it the nation's second-largest corporate user of wind power behind Whole Foods. The "green" energy will cover power use at its five ski resorts, its lodging properties, including RockResorts and Grand Teton Lodge Co., all 125 retail locations operated through Specialty Sports Venture and its new corporate headquarters. "Companies ... |
Welcome Hot Air from Arnold and Blair (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| LA Times: FOR ALL THE FANFARE that preceded it, the agreement on global warming signed Monday by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is more a promise than a plan. The nation and the nation-state, the two leaders agreed, will collaborate on new, clean-fuel technologies and research the costs and benefits of mandatory emissions trading programs such as those recently put in place in Britain and the rest of Europe. These programs essentially allow businesses to buy and sell ... |
India: Bizarre weather in India as drought, floods swap places (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Indian Muslims: Blame it on the weather gods or global warming. Gujarat, an otherwise drought-prone state in western India, was battling floods Tuesday, while the northeast, usually battered by heavy rainfalls during this time of the year, was facing drought-like conditions. Following heavy rains since Saturday that have taken the season's toll of rain-related deaths to 50, Gujarat called in army and paramilitary forces to help civil authorities in their rescue and relief operations. One ... |
United States: Energy bill stirs emissions concerns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Boston Globe: Old wood-burning power plants in New England could reap millions of dollars a year in payments previously available only to new, renewable energy projects, if Governor Mitt Romney signs a bill the Legislature approved late Monday. Environmentalists and some state officials are concerned about the bill, saying it could undermine an ambitious effort to generate 4 percent of the state's electricity from new renewable sources by 2009. ``It could seriously slow development of new ... |
New Zealand: Govt response sought on criticism of coal-fired power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Radio New Zealand: Whangarei people opposing plans for a coal-fired power station say they want a response from the government to criticism of the project by parliament's Commissioner for the Environment. Morgan Williams says by supporting the Marsden B power station proposal, the government appears to place short-term economic benefit over the country's international commitments and environmental sustainability. Lawrence Berry, who chairs the Marsden B Action Group, says the government's own ... |
China: HK Urges Power Companies to Meet Emission Targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang has warned the territory's two power companies to comply with emission reduction targets otherwise it might affect their bids to renew their licenses in 2008. "It's important for everyone to remember that the emissions from power companies in Hong Kong are regarded as the main source of air pollution," Chief Executive Tsang said on Tuesday during a trip to Guangzhou city in southern China to discuss the cross border air pollution issue with ... |
It's our turn to face a climate drama (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| LA Times: Eugene Linden is the author of "The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather and the Destruction of Civilizations." I've written a good deal about global warming over the years, but, like most people, I still have a hard time envisioning how we will know when the apocalypse arrives. Nobody will ring a bell to announce that a climate-change event has begun, and it's easy to ignore the signals that the climate is changing. After all, we've always had extreme weather, and ... |
Japanese and Brazilian banks tie up to cut greenhouse gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Agence France-Presse: Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Bank will tie up with the Bank of Brazil to secure credits for Japanese firms in cutting greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol. Sumitomo Mitsui's Brazilian subsidiary and Brazil's central bank plan to jointly finance Brazilian environmental projects in which Japanese firms would participate, the Japanese bank's spokesman said. The Kyoto Protocol mandates cuts in greenhouse gas by developed countries in a bid to halt global warming but rich countries ... |
Livingstone leads large cities climate group (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| ePolitix.com: Ken Livingstone has joined former US president Bill Clinton in launching a new initiative aimed at tackling climate change. The mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco were also at the launch of the Clinton climate initiative (CCI) which aims to foster co-operation between major urban centres. The large cities climate leadership group, chaired by the London mayor, comprises 22 of the largest cities in the world which have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Last ... |
United Kingdom: Transport policies 'are not green' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Press Association: Government transport policies are failing to tackle climate change, a report from environmental groups has said. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from surface transport will continue to rise unless there is a radical change in approach, the report added. The Department for Transport (DfT) does not know the full impact of its decisions on climate change and is "pinning its hopes for meeting climate targets on policies which already look set to fail", the report ... |
Canada: Alberta oilsands rush threatening environment: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| CBC: The rate of oilsands development in Alberta needs to be slowed to protect forests and wildlife, environmental watchdogs said Tuesday. If all of Alberta's deep underground reserves were extracted, about 13.8 million hectares of land would be at risk, according to the Pembina Institute and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. The area amounts to 21 per cent of the province, an expanse the size of Florida. The report calls for a moratorium on new projects and lease ... |
Blair cuts out Bush in deal with Schwarzenegger to set up carbon trading scheme (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Telegraph: Britain and California agreed yesterday to sidestep the Bush administration's reluctance to tackle global warming by drawing up plans to act together to cut greenhouse gases. Tony Blair and Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, announced yesterday they would explore the possibility for a new trans-Atlantic market in carbon dioxide emissions and other heat-trapping gases which scientists blame for warming the planet. California is undergoing a heatwave, with ... |
Blair risks wrath of White House over emissions deal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Times (UK): TONY BLAIR broke ranks with President Bush yesterday to announce agreements with the state of California to cut greenhouse gases and promote stem cell research in defiance of White House policy. The Prime Minister met Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California, to lay the groundwork for a new transatlantic carbon trading system intended to encourage companies to reduce emissions. Frustration with the President's refusal to cut carbon emissions has driven Britain to risk ... |
United Kingdom: Blair signs climate pact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Guardian: Tony Blair yesterday sidestepped the Bush administration's refusal to act on climate change by signing what was hailed as a ground-breaking agreement with California, the world's 12th largest carbon emitter, to fight global warming. Downing Street made no attempt to disguise the fact that the deal is designed to get round Republican objections to states imposing mechanisms to cut carbon emissions. With other US states also interested or involved in carbon trading markets, the path is ... |
California and UK in climate pact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| BBC: The UK and California are to work together on reducing greenhouse gases and promoting low carbon technologies. The agreement came after a climate change meeting in Long Beach of Tony Blair, the US state's governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and business leaders. A "mission statement" said the two would, among other things, "share experiences" and "find new solutions". They would look at whether they could co-operate on an emissions trading ... |
Clinton, Mayors Form Alliance on Climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Associated Press: Former President Clinton and mayors of some of the world's largest cities announced an initiative Tuesday to combat climate change and increase energy efficiency in everything from street lights to building materials. The partnership joins Clinton and the resources of his presidential foundation with the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group an alliance of Rome, London, Mexico City, Los Angeles and other cities that have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The aim is to ... |
United Kingdom: Energy-saving solar panels to be sold on the high street (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Independent: A major electronics retail chain is to sell solar panels on the high street for the first time. Currys is to sell panels costing £1,000 each at three stores from tomorrow in what could be the start of a major shift towards providing eco-friendly devices for domestic properties. Green lobby groups welcomed the decision but said there was still much more to be done to help ordinary householders save energy. Currys said that rising electricity charges and a better understanding ... |
Gasoline's fledgling rivals: the race to power your car (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Christian Science Monitor: After a 20-year hiatus, ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, electricity, and other potential fuels are pushing to challenge king gasoline at the pump. But the race is a tricky one. The successful fuel not only has to be cheaper than gasoline, it has to be produced in huge quantities and survive future swings in gas prices. There's another potential hurdle: Environmentalists want alternatives with smaller greenhouse-gas emissions than gasoline. So, it's not clear that any alternative ... |
Governor, Blair Reach Environmental Accord (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| LA Times: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and British Prime Minister Tony Blair signed an agreement on Monday to work together to curb greenhouse gas emissions, promote clean-burning fuels and collaborate on research to fight global warming. Blair and Schwarzenegger announced the agreement at a meeting at the Port of Long Beach with prominent California and European business leaders on climate issues. "California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global ... |
United Kingdom: High street solar panels on sale (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| BBC: A major British electrical retailer is selling solar panels in high street shops for the first time. Currys has launched a pilot scheme in three of its stores selling the off-the-shelf green technology. Shoppers in West Thurrock, Essex, and Fulham and Croydon in Greater London will be able to snap up the £1,000 panels, manufactured by Sharp. An installed system that could halve the electricity bill of a typical three-bedroom home costs £9,000, Currys says. ... |
President briefed on storms, warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: Officials tracking the approach of the peak hurricane season told President Bush Monday that data linking a series of devastating storms to global warming was inconclusive. Eleven months after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Bush visited the National Hurricane Center in Florida, a state often battered by hurricanes. Showing Bush maps and other devices used to predict storms, Max Mayfield, the center's ... |
Scientists study climate change secrets of Antarctic clouds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Agence France-Presse: Australian scientists have said they were studying what rare iridescent clouds over Antarctica can reveal about global climate change. Researchers at Australia's Mawson weather station in Antarctica captured images of the spectacular mother-of-pearl formations known as nacreous clouds late last month. Meteorologist Renae Baker, who photographed the clouds, said they were rarely seen and only formed when conditions were extremely cold in the stratosphere 10-50 kilometres (6-31 ... |
Species Unique To Tidal Marshes Face Threats (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Science Daily: Tidal marshes cover only about 45,000 square kilometers worldwide -- about the area of Denmark. In comparison with other habitats, tidal marshes support few nonaquatic vertebrate species, but their unique characteristics have led to the evolution of species and subspecies that are endemic (found nowhere else). These endemic species and subspecies, which seem to be largely restricted to North America, have adaptations that suit them to life in a harsh environment in which seed abundance ... |
United States: Study predicts a much hotter, drier California (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| San Francisco Chronicle: California will become significantly hotter and drier by the end of the century, causing severe air pollution, a drop in the water supply, melting of 90 percent of the Sierra snowpack and up to six times more heat-related deaths in major urban centers, according to a sweeping study compiled with help from respected scientists from around the country. The weather -- up to 10.5 degrees warmer by 2100 -- would make last month's heat wave look average. If industrial and vehicle emissions ... |
UK, Arnie in global warming pact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Associated Press: Britain and California formed a trans-Atlantic partnership to address global warming, bypassing the Bush administration to explore ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean-burning fuels. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday announced the pact against the backdrop of an oil tanker at a BP terminal in the port of Long Beach. "We see that there is not great leadership from the federal government when it comes to ... |
UK, Calif. to Strike Global Warming Deal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Associated Press: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced an agreement Monday to bypass the Bush administration and work together to explore ways to fight global warming. The two leaders announced the pact as they met with business leaders on clean energy and climate issues against the backdrop of a BP oil tanker at a terminal in the Port of Long Beach. "We see that there is not great leadership from the federal government when it comes to ... |
A more energy-efficient home can turn up the heat on your savings (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| USA Today: In St. Louis, it's so hot, you can fry an egg and a slice of bacon on the sidewalk. In Baltimore, you can pop popcorn on the hood of your car. It's turning out to be a scorching summer across the USA, and you know what that means: higher electricity bills. While the heat will abate eventually, don't count on much relief from rising energy bills. In some parts of the country, caps on electricity rates are set to expire. Regional blackouts are focusing attention on the need to invest ... |
Blair and Schwarzenegger Sign Global Warming Pact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Daily Telegraph: Britain and California agreed yesterday to sidestep the Bush administration's reluctance to tackle global warming by drawing up plans to act together to cut greenhouse gases. Tony Blair and the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced they would explore the possibility of a new trans-Atlantic market in carbon dioxide emissions and other heat-trapping gases, which scientists blame for warming the planet. California is undergoing a heat wave, with temperatures ... |
Britain, Calif. to work together on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, accusing Washington of lacking leadership on the environment, committed his state on Monday to work with Britain to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming. British Prime Minister Tony Blair joined Schwarzenegger and leading businessmen to announce the agreement under which Britain and California will collaborate on research into clean energy technologies and California will study the British experience of greenhouse gas emissions ... |
Carbon trading deal set up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Independent: Britain and California are to sign a new carbon trading agreement, side-stepping opposition from President George Bush. The announcement that could eventually bring California into the European carbon market was announced yesterday by Tony Blair and Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's Governor. Carbon emissions trading, established by the Kyoto protocol in 1997, has been rejected by Mr Bush but global warming has emerged as a significant issue in California where the former ... |
United Kingdom: Climate Change in Spotlight at London 'I Count' Event (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: The Stop Climate Chaos coalition today announced it is to stage 'I Count', a huge event in London's Trafalgar Square, on Saturday 4th November, 2006 at 1pm. Thousands of people who care about climate change are expected to turn out, be counted and demand politicians take action. The event is part of the wider 'I Count' campaign to stop climate chaos, launching at the beginning of October. People will be travelling to the event from across the UK in ingenious low-carbon ways and ... |
United Kingdom: Could you go solar powered? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| This Is Money: IN the face of soaring energy bills and global warming, it could be the next must-have household appliance. This is Money helped pioneer online comparison services and we now have more than 50 at your fingertips Solar panels are to go on sale in the high street, alongside TVs, washing machines and personal computers. Currys is taking the first step by a major electrical retailer into what it believes will be an expanding market in alternative energy provision. The ... |
Environmental 'crisis' in Lebanon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| BBC: The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) has expressed its "grave concern" about oil pollution in Lebanese coastal waters. An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing of the Jiyyeh power station now covers 80km (50 miles) of coast. Local environmental groups describe the slick as an "environmental disaster". Almost as much oil may have entered the water as during the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker incident in Alaska, which led to widespread ecological ... |
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