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United Kingdom: `Red Ken' launches a green initiative for polluted London (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| Guardian: The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, on Friday promised a greener and more healthy British capital by imposing prohibitively high charges on polluting lorries and improving access to more local and organic food. Calling it the the most radical overhaul of Londoners' diet and health since the establishment of the welfare state, Livingstone said he wanted his new food strategy for London to become a blueprint for other cities, not just around Britain, but also the world, just as the ... |
GE decides it's best to look after the greenhouse (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| Observer: Perhaps the most encouraging - and surprising - news for the environment in the past 12 months has come from the giant US corporation GE. Its product line of nuclear power, aero engines, coal plant and plastics hardly seems likely to endear it to environmentalists, with whom it has also crossed swords over chemical pollution (which it is now clearing up) in the Hudson river. Moreover, some of its largest customers are utilities, traditionally among the fiercest opponents of curbs on ... |
Indonesia: Lo, all's normal with logs, lungs `n' landslides (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| Jakarta Post: Well, here we are again. Just when you thought you'd got rid of me, what with Christmas and New Year's Day falling on a Sunday this time around, I'm back to spout more ill-informed drivel to anyone whose gaze falls across this page on its way to the movie reviews. I had a very nice Christmas and new year too, thank you for asking, despite a mild case of food poisoning (bring back the formaldehyde, I say). What's been hitting the headlines then? The inevitable Christmas bombing, for ... |
Climate change conference begins (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| AAP: A KEY conference on climate change is set to begin in Sydney this week, but already it has been hit by the withdrawal of its biggest drawcard. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has pulled out of the inaugural meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate due to the poor health of Israeli leader Ariel Sharon. Australia, the US, Japan, South Korea, China and India last year pledged to form a new climate initiative to bypass perceived problems in ... |
Billions needed to fight climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| AAP: An environmentalist has described as a "pittance" the $100 million the federal government is considering injecting into an international fund to promote the adoption of clean technology in China and India. Australia is looking at providing the money as part of a regional push to cut greenhouse gases that are contributing to climate change, The Australian newspaper reports. After Australia marked its hottest year on record in 2005, the first meeting of the Asia Pacific ... |
Ocean's temperature off Santa Barbara now highest in 1,400 years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| LA Times: Southern California coastal waters have warmed in recent decades to their highest level in 1,400 years, according to a study of fossilized plankton published this week in the journal Science. A group led by David Field of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography analyzed sediment cores drilled off the Santa Barbara coast. The cores contained thin layers of shells from microscopic plankton called forams that rained to the seabed after the animals died. The cores showed that, as ... |
Study says forest thinning offers potential for fueling biomass plants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| Capital Press: A new study of the biological growth and mortality in Oregon's forests has identified the potential for using woody biomass from forest thinning as fuel to help meet the state's electricity needs while advancing habitat restoration in the forests. Based on federal data, the Oregon Forest Resources Institute study confirms that many forests in southwestern, central and eastern Oregon – primarily on federal lands – are at moderate to high risk of uncharacteristically intense wildfire ... |
Leaders direct clout at global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| Miami Herald: What does the Bible say about global warming? Some evangelical Christian leaders hope to answer that question this year with a statement on climate change that could lend moral authority and political power to a smaller number of environmentalists pushing the issue. It's a sign that U.S. evangelicals are flexing political muscles strengthened in battles over domestic issues such as abortion, gay rights and school prayer on a broader array of topics, from human rights and ... |
Peak Oil And The Politics Of Global Solutions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| CounterCurrents.org: As people become aware of sustainability issues (and especially with peak oil) they almost immediately begin to look at reducing the fossil fuel dependence in their lives, learning to grow their own food, creating forward-looking networks etc. Others also partake in awareness raising, as greater awareness levels could also prove to be a key factor in how the issues take effect. For all of the good work being done by folk, the fact cannot be escaped that government action needs to be ... |
Will small cars finally capture American hearts? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 03:00:07
| DetNews: When you look around the Detroit Car Show, otherwise known as the North American International Auto Show, you probably won't spot the sea change which is about to hit the American car market. Clue: It's not connected to hybrids. Sure, there will be the usual glitz and glamor as the big car manufacturers try to tempt potential buyers with their most sensual, extravagant and inappropriate new products. And there will also be a huge effort by car makers to show how much they care ... |
Business to dominate summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:11
| Sydney Morning Herald: IT HAS been billed as one of the most important environment meetings in recent years but environment groups have not been invited to the inaugural Asia-Pacific partnership on clean development and climate. However, big business will be there in force - companies like the global miner Rio Tinto and the oil group Exxon Mobil - and will foot part of the bill for a harbour cruise. Environment, energy and foreign affairs ministers from Australia, the US, China, Japan, India and ... |
Australia: $30m greenhouse store plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| Age: VICTORIA is set to become a leader in fighting climate change with a landmark research project this year that will store greenhouse gas deep underground. The carbon dioxide geosequestration project, a first for Australia, is being driven by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) and will be located in the Otway Basin in western Victoria. Industry and the federal and state governments are banking on geosequestration – the geological storage of ... |
Australia's First Carbon Dioxide Storage Project Set to Start (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| Bloomberg: Australia's first project to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them under ground will get under way early this year, with the aim of demonstrating the effectiveness of the technology to combat global warming. The A$30 million ($23 million) project, partly financed by companies including Chevron Corp., Xstrata Plc and Rio Tinto, will be carried out by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies, and will be located in western Victoria state, the research ... |
Australia: Incentives seen as only greenhouse solution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| Sydney Morning Herald: RESEARCH and development of clean coal technologies would be a waste of time and Australia's greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising unless the Federal Government sets a price on carbon, energy experts and power providers say. Ministers from Australia, the US, China, India, Japan and South Korea will meet on Wednesday as part of the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate to discuss technologies that aim to capture and store underground the carbon dioxide ... |
If you're going to burn wood, burn it cleanly (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| Seattle Times: When it comes to the environment, firewood has a split personality. From an air-quality standpoint, it's hard to defend wood heat. Wood smoke contains a slew of harmful or carcinogenic substances, including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, dioxin and particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The American Lung Association of Washington (ALAW) says fireplaces and wood stoves account for 10 percent of the outdoor air ... |
The devil in the deep blue sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| Knight Ridder: The last time the planet endured a dramatic temperature shift, with ice invading Europe and North America, there were no smokestacks and SUVs to blame. But there were changes in a mighty engine that balances global temperatures, a meandering, mysterious force that flows unseen only a few miles off the beaches of Miami and Fort Lauderdale and the Florida Keys. It's the fabled Gulf Stream. Traveled by whalers and sailors for centuries but never accurately charted until it ... |
United States: A huge chance for solar power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| NewJersey.com: It should be so obvious. But evidently it's not. The Meadowlands Commission announced last month that it is exploring ways to convert rooftops and landfills into solar-power sites. But there's been nary a word about the new Giants/Jets stadium and the Xanadu shopping and entertainment center that are due to rise in the area. New Jersey has been a national leader in promoting renewable energy, financing solar panels on everything from an East Windsor turkey farm to a Whole Foods ... |
A new energy policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| Denver Post: What if a single strategy could help boost rural Colorado, broaden our nation's economic base, bolster American security, reduce worldwide poverty and address global warming? New energy policies and technologies are that opportunity, and we must summon the political will to harness them in service of our state, national and global future. A national energy independence policy that emphasizes renewable energy and energy efficiency is a win-win-win-win proposition: It will make us more ... |
United States: Pataki Wants Drivers to Fill Up With Ethanol or Biodiesel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| New York Times: Some 200,000 New Yorkers own vehicles that can run on corn-based ethanol instead of gasoline. But many have no idea that their Ford Explorers, Chevy Impalas or Nissan Titans can use this type of fuel, which some view as a way to liberate Americans from Middle Eastern oil. In any case, the closest station carrying ethanol is in Ottawa, as the Northeast is the one region of the United States that uniformly does not offer ethanol to the public. But Gov. George E. Pataki wants to ... |
Time seen as ripe for organic fuels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| Arkansas Democrat Gazette: CYPRESS BEND – Tom Belin believes the time has come to turn trees and cotton stalks into motor fuels. Belin and others at Spokane, Wash.-based Potlatch Corp., want the company's pulp and paperboard mill near McGehee to be the first site in the country for a new type of biorefinery. Feasibility studies are under way for a demonstration plant that could prove the practicality of converting "biomass" – organic matter – into heat, power, fuels and chemicals. Serious ... |
E.P.A. Set to Reveal Changes in Fuel Economy Calculations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-08-2006 at 06:00:12
| New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to unveil next week long-awaited changes in the way that it calculates fuel economy ratings for cars and trucks. The agency is scheduled to announce the action at a news conference on Thursday in Detroit. The announcement falls during the preview days for the North American International Auto Show, which opens to the public next Saturday. The new standards, under consideration for months, would be the first revision in determining ... |
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