Carbon Dioxide
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Reduce Your Carbon Footprint With Carbon Credits -- AOL Real Estate
realestate.aol.com via @greenexistence &bull 1 Hour AgoSarah Warren considers herself an "unlikely environmentalist": someone who a few years ago would only casually recycle her garbage but who now has fully embraced the green lifestyle. That happened after Warren, a psychologist in Evanston, Ill. realized how environmental degradation poses "a clear threat to the health and well-being of my children," she says. After that, Warren switched from incandescent to compact fluorescent lightbulbs, vigilantly turned off… Full Story »
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Emission-conscious Chrysler shrinks carbon footprint - Electric Vehicles - GREEN NEWS - ECOSEED Global Green News Portal
ecoseed.org via @greenexistence &bull 1 Hour AgoWith sales of 40,000 units to date, low-speed electric vehicles by Global Electric Motorcars, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chrysler Group L.L.C., helped reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 93,000 metric tons. GEM's neighborhood electric vehicle used mainly for… Full Story »
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Metz!, The danger is that global warming may become...
metz77.tumblr.com via @Metz77 &bull 2 Hours AgoThe danger is that global warming may become self-sustaining, if it has not done so already. The melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps reduces the fraction of solar energy reflected back into space, and so increases the temperature… Full Story »
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Updated standard provides new guidance for using forests to address climate change - Climate Action Reserve
www.climateactionreserve.org via @EI_EcoNewsfeed &bull 2 Hours AgoLos Angeles, CA - The newest version of the Forest Project Protocol from the Climate Action Reserve, North America's largest carbon offset registry, has been officially released for use in the carbon market. Updates in version 3.2 of the protocol create stronger… Full Story »
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Renewable Energy from Dairy Farm Manure
nwfarmsandfood.com via @PacNW_PPRC &bull 5 Hours AgoFarm Power Northwest Rexville Methane Digester In a promising development for the agricultural economy, an up-and-coming Washington start-up company, is turning the dairy industry's huge manure waste problem into a renewable energy solution. After a successful debut with a farm-based anaerobic digester in Rexville, Washington, Farm Power Northwest, with its prime contractor, the Andgar Corporation, is constructing a second methane digester near Lynden in Whatcom County.The Million Ton Problem The environmental problem Farm Power Northwest has taken on is not… Full Story »
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Judge to Climate Change Denier: Get Real
environment.change.org via @ClimaTweets &bull 5 Hours AgoIn a ruling Monday, a city circuit judge quashed Cuccinelli's witch hunt-er, investigation-into climate scientist Michael Mann, who formerly worked at the University of Virginia. The rogue AG claimed Mann used grant funds to produce "junk science" about our warming… Full Story »
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Slashing Oil Dependence Key to Avoiding More Spills, Here and Abroad
NRDC: Switchboard &bull 5 Hours Ago
In the wake of spills in the Gulf, we must take real steps to safeguard our coasts and oceans. However, the oil market is global and other nations such as Nigeria and Norway may be advancing offshore drilling programs with an eye to replacing U.S. oil production. This is in part explained by the globe's tremendous thirst… Full Story »
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India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of August 24, 2010 to August 30, 2010
switchboard.nrdc.org via @votesolar &bull YesterdayEnvironmental factors - like the present floods - could further weaken an already weak Pakistani state and add impetus to a return to military rule or a more bellicose posture towards India, warns a new US Congressional report.' Environmental stresses, when combined with the other socio-economic and political stresses on Pakistan, have the potential to further weaken an already weak Pakistani state,' says the background report prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for US lawmakers." Asia's glaciers are retreating, which could mean drought, plus crop losses upstream and flood conditions downstream for millions of people. A report published by… Full Story »
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Carbon Dioxide Depth - Green Options Community
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A Very Different Earth
verydifferentearth.blogspot.com via @trigobot &bull YesterdayIt is becoming apparent that climate change will result in a very different Earth for future generations. Many changes are now unavoidable. What will that new Earth be like? Rice field in BangladeshNew science raises serious concerns about the negative impact of global warming on crop yields and plant productivity in general. This could be one of the most severe social and economic effects of climate change. Rice Yields Hurt By WarmingResearchers from the University of California,… Full Story »
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A Very Different Earth: Plants Unhappy About Global Warming
verydifferentearth.blogspot.com via @DocWheat &bull YesterdayIt is becoming apparent that climate change will result in a very different Earth for future generations. Many changes are now unavoidable. What will that new Earth be like? Rice field in BangladeshNew science raises serious concerns about the negative impact of global warming on crop yields and plant productivity in general. This could be one of the most severe social and economic effects of climate change. Rice Yields Hurt By WarmingResearchers from the University of California,… Full Story »
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Ohio Tea Party Survey
Celsias - Green News & Honest Opinions &bull Yesterday
Ohio Tea Party survey to candidates: "The regulation of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere should be left to God and not government and I oppose all measures of Cap and Trade as well as the teaching of global warming theory in our schools." At first, I wasn't going to blog on this because I thought it must be a hoax. Who could possibly ask such a question of candidates? Then again, the Tea Party have outsourced their thinking on climate to The Viscount Monckton of… Full Story »
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CHURNING out large quantities of a charcoal- like material could reduce mankind's greenhouse gas emissions, Swansea scientists have claimed.
www.thisissouthwales.co.uk via @citizensclimate &bull YesterdayThe exciting thing about biochar is that if this charcoal is added to agricultural soil, it not only locks up carbon for centuries to millennia, but can also improve fertility, moisture availability and crop growth, particularly on less fertile soils,"… Full Story »
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The Hand That Feeds U.S. - The Miracle of Corn
www.thehandthatfeedsus.org via @TitanOutlet &bull YesterdayWhen you stop to think about it, farming is nothing short of a miracle. Earlier this month, Jerry Ploehn of the Minnesota Corn Research Promotion Council pointed this out to a roomful of farmers, lawmakers, reporters, and others in the agriculture community at the Minnesota Agriculture Leadership Conference in Brainerd, MN. Look at this," he said, showing the room a single kernel of corn. If that's not a miracle, I don't know what is." Mr. Ploehn… Full Story »
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This-Above-All: EU Research & Management Issues:Car versus plane_travel and the climate change
management-related-bsc-mba.blogspot.com via @baj_JA &bull YesterdayThis above all -to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night, the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." Polonius' advice to a son going to travel- Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I. My web-logs began with a… Full Story »
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Double Play for Global Warming | The Rundown News Blog
www.pbs.org via @HITpol &bull YesterdayThere's a fight brewing on an issue that seemed settled in 2006. That was when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, flexing his environmental credentials, signed into law a measure that requires a statewide cut in greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. That amounts to about a 15 percent decrease, a move designed to lower the amount… Full Story »
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Thomas Elias: Prop. 23: strongest effort yet at climate change denial - Press-Telegram
www.presstelegram.com via @RL_Miller &bull YesterdayThe Texas oil companies behind Proposition 23 don't call it an attempt to deny the existence of worldwide climate change. They just call the landmark 2006 California law they're essentially trying to repeal a "job killer." But this proposition, which… Full Story »
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Climate Change And Bad Neighbors
www.tnr.com via @Jonathan_Todd &bull YesterdayJonathan Chait approvingly quotes from another blogger the argument that emitting carbon dioxide is like spraying water on your neighbor's house and says, therefore, that principled conservatives, as defenders of property rights, ought to either demand that emitters stop or else reach an agreement with their neighbors for mutually acceptable compensation. Metaphors applied to the specific ethical question of carbon emissions often employ some version of the thought experiment "polluting the neighbor's… Full Story »
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Champagne bottles trimmed down in an effort to cut carbon emissions
blogs.creativeloafing.com via @EarthAdapt &bull YesterdayIn an effort reduce their carbon footprint, the Champagne industry is working on making their bottles a deeper shade of "green" by slimming them down and reducing their weight. In turn, this will not only reduce resources used to make… Full Story »
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Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Sep. 2nd 2010 The Daily Bayonet
dailybayonet.com via @dailybayonet &bull YesterdaySockeye salmon sock it to Suzuki, greenwashing corporations boycott their own boycott when faced with a counter-boycott and Greenpeace gets whacked by Greenland and unfriended by Facebook. Despite outspending the Koch brothers by a factor of 3 to 1, Gore's Repower America points to the $100 million spent on conservative causes as the reason the green movement failed to achieve well, anything. Note how Repower America calls the Koch bro's 'infamous', yet they have been upfront and open about spending their cash, whereas the world still wonders how Al raised $300 million for his pet cause. How about it Al,… Full Story »
