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The Big Score
From The Grumpy Old Man (Environment) | 3 hours ago by Eddy De Clercq
A nice person let me discover the Climate Counts website. One of the main features is the (second already) annual Company Scorecard. It shows how companies score in making climate improvements. These companies, active in sectors from apparel to elec read more
Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krup and Miriam Horn: A Review
The Green Skeptic | 15 hours ago by Scott Edward Anderson
Entrepreneurs can save the planet, but they need a cap-and-trade system to do it.That's the premise of Earth: The Sequel, by Fred Krup and Miriam Horn, and published in March by W.W. Norton. The authors, the head of Environmental Defense and a journa read more
Senators Warn Bill Could Spike Gas $1.50 To $5 A Gallon
84rules | 19 hours ago by 84rules
Get ready for it folks. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) is the bill that is going to cost you more at the pump while at the same time not doing a damn thing to influence climate change. Why? Because we humans cannot control our read more
Speech at Athens Summit on Climate Change and Energy Security
Blogactiv | May 16th 2008 by Blogactiv
ADDRESS of Minister dr. Žiga Turkat the Athens Summit on Climate Change and Energy SecurityAthens, 5. – 7. May 2008 Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the beginning allow me to thank the organizers for bringing this summit together and congrat read more
A Pun By Any Other Name, no. 237
Rooby Moon comic strip, by Chris MacNeil | May 16th 2008 by Gillead
Technorati Tags: climate change comics, comic strip, comics, duck, global warming comic strip, squirrel, web comics read more
Understanding CO2 Emissions Using Black Balloons
My Green Doc Blog | May 15th 2008 by Kirsti A. Dyer
A compelling video messages that helps make the issue of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions more tangible and more visible.Watch the Black Balloon advertising and be motivated to Go Green and Save Energy.What is a Black Balloon?A black balloon is being u read more
Oil and an Adaptation
People and Nature Journal | May 15th 2008 by Steven
I've always enjoyed Vanity Fair. Here are two article links from this great magazine.First, a piece from 2004 about two kids who make their own version of Raiders of the Lost Ark.When 10-year-old Chris Strompolos and 11-year-old Eric Zala decided to read more
Polar Bear Listed, “Endangered”
EnviroHumanImpact | May 15th 2008 by Matt Johnson
Polar bears have been listed on the “Endangered Species” list, although environmentalists did not get the win they had hoped for with this case. They had wanted for this to push legislation to combat global warming. From the New York Tim read more
Global Climate Change: Hans Rosling on CO2 Emissions and Human De…
The Green Skeptic | May 15th 2008 by Scott Edward Anderson
Dr. Hans Rosling rocked the house at TED in 2006 with his sportcaster-like presentation of data on human development trends (see embedded video below). It really is quite a fascinating presentation; watch him describe trends in life length and family read more
“Unendangered” Polar Bears Threat fo Eskimo Food Source
Hypocrisy.com | May 15th 2008 by Kim
Polar bear populations have increased by five times since the 1950s and 1960s leaving many “confused” by the U.S. Department of Interior's decision to list polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act,. Polar bear numbers hav read more
Peak oil and climate change explained to teenagers
Revolving doors | May 15th 2008
Here's a guy called Brian Kaller giving a talk about peak oil and CC to a large audience of teenagers. His explanations are very straightforward and explicit.Peak oilClimate changeDealing with itRelated:Running on empty (article by Brian Kaller) read more
Gork, no. 236
Rooby Moon comic strip, by Chris MacNeil | May 15th 2008 by Gillead
Technorati Tags: animal comic strip, animal comics, cigar, climate change, duck, global warming, squirrel read more
Cause Marketing - Statistics for Green Brands
Rita Wilhelm's Blog | May 15th 2008
Does it make sense to be green? You bet it does! Take a look at some of these findings that were just released from a global study on consumer response the climate change. The report was conducted by IPSOS over nine countries (US, UK, Germa read more
Now McCain Wants to Win War 90 Years Early
Ice Station Tango | May 15th 2008
I guess when you get to a certain age you start to feel a real sense of urgency about these things.McCain is also taking on the cause of Global Warming. Of course, his solution is the one-size-fits all approach of the privatizing-libertarians-for-th read more
Tonight’s Word: Declaration of Warming
Max Gladwell | May 15th 2008 by Max Gladwell
Colbert calls out McCain on his greenwashing “We need to think of global warming as an invasion of our homeland by heat. All we have to do is build a border fence made out of air conditioners.” SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tonight’ read more
blogging for hope
Gloaming of the Mind | May 15th 2008 by Peter
our human rightlucky coincidence of birthuneven in distributionfused to our geographyinstead of our humanityluck is in short supplythree billion shortmy cobalt overridesyour watermy nickel rulesover your breadI care not for your hungernor your sickne read more
Typical British summer weather
The Birds In The Meadow | May 15th 2008 by Bird
It’s a stereotype that we Brits (and the English in particular) are prone to banging on about the weather in minute detail; I’m here to tell you that not only is this stereotype an accurate one, but that as I am nothing if not a product o read more
Ex Beatle’s green car, not so green
Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green | May 15th 2008 by Max Lee
Sir Paul McCartney has a reputation as being very green and eco friendly, yet in his life time he must have flown thousands and thousands of miles all around the world, but we forgive him because he is now making up for it by promoting a green life s read more
Report shows booming voluntary offset market
In Balance | May 15th 2008
The voluntary offsetting market is a murky place. New Carbon Finance and Ecosystem Marketplace have just published their second annual overview report (pdf). It is based on a survey of project developers and other actors in the carbon market, and sho read more
Morning Update: ‘Clean’ Manufacturing Plan
The Candidates and the World | May 15th 2008 by Council on Foreign Relations
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) released a plan (PDF) to strengthen domestic manufacturing Wednesday. The plan includes the creation of a $150 billion Clean Technologies Deployment Venture Capital Fund, which would “advance clean energy and create gre read more
Climate Demographics
People and Nature Journal | May 15th 2008 by Steven
I saw this Pew study results a few days ago. Wired looks at them and asks some obvious questions. Unfortunately, the whole issue of climate change has become a political football, the goal of some of the parties involved, I'm sure..That strikes me read more
800,000 year high for Greenhouse Gases
Globalisation and the Environment | May 15th 2008
Headlines with scary numbers always appeal to me. It begs the question of how do they know this and how accurate this figure is but I am sure the article will tell me. More importantly, what does it mean? A first guess is that the answer is unlike read more
Transition Town Meeting In Nottingham
Greenman's Occasional Organ | May 15th 2008
If people in the East Midlands are interested in Transition Towns there is a talk on Tuesday 27th May at the Nottingham Mechanics , South Sherwood St at 7.30 by Rob Hopkins, the architect of the Transition Town movement in the UK. The talk is entitl read more
Polar bears listed as U.S. threatened species
An Inconvenient Blog | May 15th 2008 by Wayne Roden
Polar bears were listed on Wednesday as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act because their sea ice habitat is melting away. But the new protection was not accompanied by any proposals to address either climate change, which environmentali read more
Tread lightly: Install cavity wall insulation
An Inconvenient Blog | May 15th 2008 by Wayne Roden
Here at AIB we love the Guardian’s “Tread Lightly” campaign. This week its that old chestnut “Cavity Wall Insulation” - Got yours done yet? If not, read below!!! Installing cavity wall insulation will save you money on read more
Is a motorised bicycle ethical?
An Inconvenient Blog | May 15th 2008 by Wayne Roden
You can buy a specifically built motorised bicycle, or convert one by adding a small engine, such as the nano-motor (above) Here’s an interesting ecoconundrum. If you take a bicycle, one of the greenest forms of transport available, and put an read more
Fears for Amazon rainforest as Brazil’s environment minister re…
An Inconvenient Blog | May 15th 2008 by Wayne Roden
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil. Photograph: Stephen Ferry/Getty Fears for the future of the world’s largest tropical rainforest grew yesterday, after the sudden resignation of Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silv read more
Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species
Great contains articles from the back issues of magazines, j… | May 14th 2008 by Articlesmodern.com
By FELICITY BARRINGER The polar bear, whose summertime Arctic hunting grounds have been greatly reduced by a warming climate, will be placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced on Wednesday read more
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