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Global Warming - Clean Development Projects Booming Around World [Full Story]
climatechange.me YesterdaySource: EP Magazine - The number of Clean Development Mechanism projects — known as CDM projects — around the world boomed in 2008, jumping from 60 in 2004 to several thousand. The brand-new figures come from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s year-end snapshot of CDM projects & Add A Comment »
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NRDC: Switchboard Sep 12, 2008Exclusive analysis, Part 1 [Full Story]
Gristmill 3 Hours AgoBy Joseph Romm A new study [PDF] puts the generation costs for power from new nuclear plants at from 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour -- triple current U.S. electricity rates! This staggering price is far higher than the cost of a variety of carbon-free renewable power sources available today -- and Add A Comment »
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The dumbest headline of 2009 [Full Story]
Gristmill YesterdayBy Joseph Romm On the very first day of 2009, the L. A. Times ran a story that already seems a lock to win the year's dumbest headline award. And dumbest subhead: "Recent moves by lame-duck officials, though frustrating to environmentalists, offer the president-elect time and political cover to Add A Comment »
Failed [Full Story]
www.scotsman.com via @scotsmandotcom YesterdayPUBLIC buildings run by the Scottish Government have failed miserably to achieve acceptable standards of energy efficiency, The Scotsman can reveal. Add A Comment »
Obama and global warming [Full Story]
UNFCCC: Climate Change Headlines 1 Hour AgoSource: Malta Independent Online - by Bjørn Lomborg In one of his first public policy statements as America?s president-elect, Barack Obama focused on climate change, and clearly stated both his priorities and the facts on which these priorities rest. Unfortunately, both are weak, or even wrong Add A Comment »
True or False? The EPA Wants to Tax Cows [Full Story]
digg.com via @satterbootch 2 Hours Agothedailygreen.com — In an early move to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from farms, was the EPA angling to tax livestock? Add A Comment »
Climate Change Threatens Midwest Moose [Full Story]
UNFCCC: Climate Change Headlines 1 Hour AgoSource: Backpacker Magazine - Climate change, hath thou no mercy? After painting a bullseye on every polar bear in existence, it now seems that the global extinction phenomenon could eradicate another symbolic creature of the north from large portions of its historical range: The mighty moose. As average Add A Comment »
Obama's radio address, 03 Jan 2008: renewable energy, no transit [Full Story]
gristmill.grist.org via @PoznanWeb YesterdayObama's radio address, 03 Jan 2008: renewable energy, no transit | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Add A Comment »
Wind Power As A Viable Solution To Meeting Alternative Energy Needs [Full Story]
www.timesoftheinternet.com via @frugalelectric YesterdayHome | Espanol | 24/7 Press Releases | About | Browse Tags | - Times of The Internet has been online for 607 Day(s), 5 Hour(s), 25 Minute(s), and 7 second(s) Add A Comment »
New Fuel Made With Wastewater Drastically Reduces Emissions [Full Story]
GreenOptions YesterdayA team of Taiwanese researchers has combined industrial wastewater and petroleum oil to make a new fuel that could largely eliminate the costly treatment of industrial air emissions from boilers, is an environmentally-friendly way to treat industrial wastewater, and could increase fuel efficiency by Add A Comment »
Team of rivals blah blah [Full Story]
Gristmill YesterdayBy David Roberts Last week John Broder wrote in The New York Times about contrasting views on climate policy among two top Obama administration officials: economic team leader Larry Summers, who favors "safety valves," slow phase-ins, and caution, and climate/energy czar empress Carol Browner, who favors Add A Comment »
Green Building Predictions for 2009 [Full Story]
greenerbuildings.com via @constructionpm YesterdayGreenBiz.com® | ClimateBiz | GreenerBuildings | GreenerComputing | GreenerDesign | Greener World Media Add A Comment »
Power to the People: Seattle Residents Sue Big Polluters [Full Story]
GreenOptions 4 Hours AgoThe Puget Soundkeeper Alliance , a group of concerned and very active Seattle residents led by Sue Joerger (pictured above), has been utilizing the 1972 Clean Water Act to bring lawsuits against companies who are not meeting federal regulations. The law empowers citizens to bring lawsuits against individual Add A Comment »
Find Solar Companies Online [Full Story]
solarpanelspower.net via @applemacbookpro YesterdayI have been blogging about renewable energy for the past 6 months, and have been practicing land use and environmental law for 14 years. One question that I regularly receive concerns the best solar companies. In other words, where can someone go to find out information about solar businesses when Add A Comment »
Is the Climate Ripe for Climate Change Officers? [Full Story]
Celsias - Green News & Honest Opinions 1 Hour Ago[Editor's note: While we follow the development of this with interest, I wonder if this proposed new role in companies will actually amount to anything other than ticking a box. Having worked in Corporate Social Responsibility for a bit, the cynic within says this is just another great way Add A Comment »
Australians swelter as 2008 temperature enters the record books [Full Story]
UNFCCC: Climate Change Headlines 1 Hour AgoSource: ABC Online, Australia - For many Australians it was a sweltering day with temperatures above 30 degrees in every capital city except Hobart. Well get used to it. The latest report from the Bureau of Meteorology shows 2008 was one of the hottest years on record and scientists say it's going Add A Comment »
Coalition to Vilsack: Stop USDA's Cruel Killing of Wild Animals [Full Story]
GreenOptions YesterdayOver a hundred conservation, wildlife, and animal welfare groups have sent a letter to incoming Secretary of Agriculture Jerry Vilsack urging him to rethink the often cruel practice of “lethal control” of wildlife by the USDA. The coalition contends that animals are killed through such means Add A Comment »
Climate Change and Green Buildings [Full Story]
atfindia.org via @atfindia YesterdayClimate Change and Green Buildings | BCIL Alt.Tech. Foundation: AlternateTechnologies for Sustainable, Energy Efficient, Green Buildings Add A Comment »
