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The New Eco-Capitalism (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| Washington Post: I was standing among a crowd of radical Serbs in front of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade last week when it dawned on me: As a futurist, things are really going my way! It's 2007, and the old world has backfired so comprehensively that a new era is truly at hand. I actually knew this would happen. I guess, for a prophet, this is what victory feels like! Back in 1998, the Mexican state of Chiapas caught fire and the smoke from its rainless "rain forests" stretched all the way to Chicago. ... |
When Being Green Puts You in the Black (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| Washington Post: Are America's capitalist titans really going green? This week's announcement that two of the country's largest private equity firms, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group, will purchase the Dallas-based utility TXU made headlines, and not just because the $45 billion deal represents the largest private equity transaction in history. The even bigger news was the environmental dimension of the takeover proposal. It calls for scaling back construction of new coal-fired power ... |
CO2 output from shipping twice as much as airlines (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| Guardian: Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping are double those of aviation and increasing at an alarming rate which will have a serious impact on global warming, according to research by the industry and European academics. Separate studies suggest that maritime carbon dioxide emissions are not only higher than previously thought, but could rise by as much as 75% in the next 15 to 20 years if world trade continues to grow and no action is taken. The figures from the oil giant BP, which owns ... |
Evangelical's Focus on Climate Draws Fire of Christian Right (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| New York Times: Leaders of several conservative Christian groups have sent a letter urging the National Association of Evangelicals to force its policy director in Washington to stop speaking out on global warming. The conservative leaders say they are not convinced that global warming is human-induced or that human intervention can prevent it. And they accuse the director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, the association's vice president for government affairs, of diverting the evangelical movement from ... |
Island people swallowed by the sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| BBC: This week saw the launch of International Polar Year, an initiative in which scientists from 60 countries will study the Arctic and Antarctic, with the major focus on climate change. The BBC's David Willis travelled to the remote Alaskan island of Shishmaref, a community that is being destroyed by climate change. It is not quite the end of the world but you could probably see it from here. Shishmaref loomed as a dot on the landscape as our twin-engined Cessna cargo ... |
US report sees steady rate of emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| Reuters: The Bush administration estimates in a report being completed for the United Nations that U.S. emissions of gases that contribute to global warming will grow in the next decade at a rate nearly equal to that of the past 10 years, The New York Times reported in Saturday editions. According to the United States Climate Action Report, a copy of which was obtained by the newspaper, the administration's climate policy will result in emissions growing 11 percent in 2012 from 2002, compared ... |
US sees its emissions growing without letup (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| International Herald Tribune: The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations. The document, the United States Climate Action Report, emphasizes that the projections show progress toward a goal Mr. Bush laid out in a 2002 speech: that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases grow at ... |
China to spend $250 mln on pollution checks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| Reuters: China will pour 2 billion yuan ($250 million) into measuring pollution and enforcing controls as it struggles to stem toxic emissions from its feverish industrial growth, state media reported on Saturday. China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) will use the money to figure out just how much pollution factories and other producers release and then hold them to targets for cutting emissions, the China Daily reported. China has promised to cut major pollution ... |
Companies feel heat of global warming awareness (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:36
| Reuters: McDonald's Corp. is blogging on the environment, Starbucks Corp. has designed a green-themed online game, and Hilton Hotels Corp. aims to link manager pay to making its hotels greener. While all of them say they have been working for years or even decades on pro-environment strategies, these corporate behemoths acknowledge that growing awareness of global warming among U.S. consumers is changing the way they work. But they operate with caution because no one wants to be accused ... |
Evangelical Angers Peers With Call for Action on Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| Washington Post: Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson and other conservative Christian leaders are calling for the National Association of Evangelicals to silence or fire an official who has urged evangelicals to take global warming seriously. In a letter this week to the board of the NAE, which claims 30 million members, Dobson and his two dozen co-signers said the Rev. Richard Cizik, the NAE's vice president for government relations, has waged a "relentless campaign" that is ... |
United Kingdom: Ministers urged to extend grants for solar panels as demand soars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| Independent (UK): Ministers who imposed a cap on the number of homes that qualify for grants for "green" energy sources such as solar panels and wind turbines following a sharp rise in consumer demand have come under pressure to scrap the monthly limit. The cap on grants was imposed last December as ministers became alarmed by the rising cost, pushed up by the willingness of home owners to spend money to reduce global warming. When the Cabinet discussed its strategy on global warming ... |
The New, Green Face of Wall Street (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| AlterNet: Big corporate takeovers happen all the time. Mergers and acquisitions are so run-of-the-mill it is hard to keep track of who owns what anymore. But this week was different. This week the largest buyout was set in motion -- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and Texas Pacific Group is hoping to buy the Texas utility giant TXU for $45 billion. And the best part of the whole deal is not its size but the conditions of sale. In a matter of a few days one of the country's dirtiest ... |
Top polluters aim to build global biofuel market (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| Reuters: Leading polluters the United States, China and India on Friday announced a bid to increase global production and use of biofuels so fossil fuel dependence and greenhouse gas emissions can be cut. But the International Biofuels Forum, which also includes Brazil, South Africa, and the European Commission, will not address biodiesel trade and tariff issues -- points of contention between major producers the United States and Brazil. Brazil's U.N. ambassador, Antonio Patriota, told ... |
United Kingdom: Tories' green light bulb pledge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| BBC: The Welsh Conservatives will unveil plans to provide Welsh homes with free energy-efficient light bulbs if they are elected in May's polls. Leader Nick Bourne will tell his party's conference in Cardiff that households will be able to trade in standard bulbs for green alternatives. Delegates will be told they must "think locally" to tackle global warming. The party has also unveiled its election slogan - "Vote Welsh Conservative for a change". ... |
Warm Winters Upset Rhythms of Maple Sugar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| New York Times: One might expect Burr Morse to have maple sugaring down to a science. For more than 200 years, Mr. Morse's family has been culling sweet sap from maple trees, a passion that has manifested itself not only in jug upon jug of maple syrup, but also in maple-cured bacon, maple cream and maple soap, not to mention the display of a suggestively curved tree trunk Mr. Morse calls the Venus de Maple. But lately nature seems to be playing havoc with Mr. Morse and other maple ... |
Corals That Can Fight Global Warming May One Day Help Fragile Reefs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| Newswise: While humans can survive large temperature fluctuations, such species as corals are only comfortable within a 12-degree temperature range. And rising global temperatures appear to be threatening their survival, according to Drew Harvell, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. However, she noted in presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, Feb. 18, Caribbean gorgonian sea fan corals show ... |
EU power station carbon to be buried (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| Telegraph (UK): Plans to pump carbon dioxide emissions from all Europe's coal fired power stations into underground chambers by 2020 will be discussed by EU leaders at a summit in Brussels next week. Tony Blair and the other leaders will discuss the plan as a way of achieving Europe's self-imposed target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by that date. As a first step, they are expected to approve a programme of building 12 demonstration projects for carbon capture and storage ... |
Europeans approve greenhouse gas solutions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| Radio New Zealand: European Union leaders will approve a series of carbon collection and storage projects at a summit next week in the search for quick solutions to the global warming crisis. With fossil fuels such as coal expected to continue to play a significant role in power generation, world leaders and scientists are seeking ways to cut the resulting greenhouse gas emissions. These include gathering the carbon before it enters the atmosphere. Officials will announce a programme of ... |
Report: US slow on cutting emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| United Press International: In a delayed report to the United Nations, the Bush administration projects that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions of will continue to grow in the next few years. The New York Times obtained a copy of the United States Climate Action Report from a federal employee. The report predicts there will be an 11 percent increase in the decade ending in 2012, down only slightly from the 11.6 percent growth rate in the previous decade. The report's authors say President George W. Bush has ... |
United States: Sacramento River salmon take a dive (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| Sacramento Bee: Fall-run chinook salmon that make a home in the Sacramento River and its tributaries fell last year to their lowest numbers since 1992, according to estimates by the Pacific Fishery Management Council. This is a surprise to fisheries managers, because the population was expected to be strong after commercial fishing was drastically curtailed last year to protect Klamath River fish. The rebound for Klamath salmon is likely to mean better fortunes for Pacific coast commercial fishermen ... |
Canada: Scrap oil sands tax breaks, MPs' report urges (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:37
| Globe and Mail: The Conservative government should scrap the generous tax breaks for the oil sands that some say are worth hundreds of millions annually, recommends a draft report by the Commons natural resources committee. The report has been debated for weeks behind closed doors as MPs from the four parties in the House wrestled with the politically thorny issue of federal policy on Alberta's oil sands. The document calls for an end to the accelerated capital-cost allowance program, brought ... |
Bolivia blames rich world pollution for floods (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:38
| Reuters: As poor people from Bolivia's Andes to its Amazon lowlands are battered by devastating floods, President Evo Morales is blaming pollution from wealthy nations, and some experts say he has a point. The floods, droughts and hailstorms that have pounded South America's poorest country for three months were triggered by El Nino, a weather phenomenon believed to be aggravated by global warming, climate experts say. Bolivia's worst flooding in 25 years has killed 35 people and ... |
Group dreams up 'green' van (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 09:00:39
| LA Times: As concern over the dangers of global warming grows, the auto industry has an opportunity to take a leading role in fighting it, a prominent environmental group said Thursday. Instead of suing to block state-mandated reductions in carbon dioxide, a primary cause of climate warming, automakers could pull enough existing technology from their parts shelves to cut emissions of the so-called greenhouse gas by 40%, the Union of Concerned Scientists said. To prove the point, the ... |
Report author details `intolerable impacts' of global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:25
| St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, has taken part in many scientific studies over the years as a leader of the National Academy of Sciences and presidential adviser. Perhaps none was as consequential as the two-year global warming study he co-chaired leading to a report last week by the UN Foundation and the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society. The report concluded that the planet faces a starkly different future with "intolerable impacts" of global ... |
Climate campaigners plan UK's longest march (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 03:00:25
| Sunday Herald: BRITAIN'S LONGEST ever protest march is being planned this summer to demand cuts in the pollution that is creating climate chaos. The leading charity Christian Aid is organising a 1000-mile ,11-week trek via all the UK's capitals. Marchers will be calling on the government to reduce emissions of carbon by 5% a year to help protect the world from the storms, floods and droughts threatened by global warming. "Climate change is the most serious threat to the future of all of ... |
The Carbon Folly (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 06:00:28
| Newsweek: Global warming isn't the only debate that may be over. Governments and policymakers around the world also seem to have settled on a solution. "A responsible approach to solving this crisis," Al Gore said recently at New York University's Law School, would be "to authorize the trading of emissions ... globally." Emissions trading, also called carbon trading, is being expanded in the European Union and Japan. And in many places where it's yet to take hold, like Sacramento, ... |
The Street Turns Green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 06:00:29
| Newsweek: Believe it or not, Goldman Sachs's interest in green goes beyond its record profits. The firm chauffeurs execs in hybrid cars, and the "Green Tower," its new $2 billion headquarters rising in Manhattan, is so ecofriendly that switching to a meatless diet may be a healthy career move for employees. So you'd expect any deal that reeks of greenhouse gases to set off alarms. Which is what happened when two of Goldman's clients, the private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ... |
Australia: Scientists study impact of sea current on environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 06:00:29
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Marine scientists say Federal Government funding is allowing them to study the impact of the east Australian current (EAC) on the nation's climate, rainfall and fisheries. The Sydney Harbour Institute of Marine Science (SHIMS) today is displaying some of the new technology that is being used in its research at Chowder Bay. SHIMS spokesman Iain Suthers says he is excited about learning more about the east Australian current, made famous in the movie Finding ... |
No Rush On Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 06:00:29
| New Republic: Not long after George W. Bush proudly declared last year that he had no intention of watching Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," he told reporters that there was a "fundamental debate" about whether global warming was "manmade or natural." It was an ignorant statement utterly at odds with the scientific consensus. Recently, however, he tried to walk it back. "Beginning in June 2001," read a White House letter released last month, "President Bush has ... |
Report projects almost 20-per-cent rise in U.S. greenhouse emissions by 2020 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 06:00:29
| Associated Press: By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases that lead to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies. That projection comes from an internal draft report from the U.S. administration that is more than a year overdue at the United Nations. The United States already is responsible for roughly one-quarter of the world's carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases scientists blame for global ... |
Australia: Pest-infested heritage island 'a disgrace' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 06:00:30
| Age: THE survival of Australia's remaining 80 breeding pairs of the critically endangered grey-headed albatross has become entangled in a dispute between the Federal and Tasmanian governments over who should pay to protect the rare seabirds. The state and federal environment ministers concede that an ecological disaster on the World Heritage-Listed Macquarie Island is imminent, but each accuses the other of failing to act. Late last year, the Federal Government offered to pay half ... |
Traveling to the Arctic to Discover Effects of Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2007 at 06:00:30
| ABC News: Educators and explorers Will Steger, John Stetson, Elizabeth Andre and Abby Fenton joined four Inuit hunters on a 1,200-mile, four-month-long dogsled expedition across the Canadian Arctic's Baffin Island. The expedition is traveling with four Inuit dog teams over traditional hunting paths, up frozen rivers, through steep-sided fjords, over glaciers and ice caps, and across the sea ice to reach some of the most remote Inuit villages of the world. The travelers wake up early ... |
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