SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A leading U.S. climate researcher said Wednesday the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert a weather catastrophe.NASA scientist James Hansen, widely considered the doyen of American climate researchers, said...
-Scott Gladstone
The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously calculated according to a recently released scientific paper by University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Sebastian H. Mernild.
-Chris Cappuccilli
Huffington Post, a leader in progressive online media, has launched a major green channel. Expect to see big things.
Here’s to hoping that Peter Garrett can get the hell out of the Australian government (ey is a member of Labor, as well as a Minister for Environment), and can get the band back together for one long, last tour.
WASHINGTON, DC, May 30, 2008 (ENS) - Congress will consider climate change legislation in a variety of forms next week when legislators return to Washington. Both House and Senate have bills to work with and changes to measures previously introduced.
- Chistian Loriau
From the page: "There is a huge push for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), or "clean coal" technologies in Australia, largely due to the political pressure from the coal lobby and mining union. There are a number of test plants currently running, and a larger number planned or in the works. " The page lists all Clean Coal projects in Australia, present and future
World leaders are to meet next week for urgent talks aimed at preventing tens of millions of the world's poor dying of hunger as a result of soaring food prices. The Rome summit is the first of a series of high-level meetings aimed at tackling what many leaders now see as a much bigger threat to international stability than terrorism.
It’s a long road to really creating an eco friendly world, but we are making positive steps forward. Very often these little steps are made by individuals, cities, and mayors that are not waiting on national legislature. There is allot of debate to why national governments are taking their time, one of which is the involvement and persuasion of the oil industry. Today, a very inspirational story came to my attention that has been going on for years that surrounds those big bad oil companies.
That’s right folks; the long wait is finally over. Has your newborn already outgrown those Ronald Reagan ‘Trickle-Down Diaper Covers’ that were hand-me-downs from your cousin?
Is it possible to change the world by doing nothing? This blog post says it is and tells you exactly how to go about saving the world by doing absolutely squat!
GreenCrawler.com's blog features a great article from Gist.com that gives a quick-and-dirty rundown of the candidates’ green positions, with current platforms, voting records, video, audio, and more.
Wal-Mart just announced that it's selected capitol buildings in 19 states and Puerto Rico to assist with cutting emissions and save on energy costs. The company will actually pay engineers to do the energy audits and for the capitols. Whoa.
According to a recent study completed by Gerry Fairbrother of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, over 50% of our nations states will not have enough funding to help the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured.
Now, I am usually the last person to be defending economists, but when it comes to designing energy tax policy, perhaps an economist is not a bad person to talk to, no? Former Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration, Robert Reich thinks so
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