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- November 15th, 2008
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Greenpeace occupies the construction of a new E.ON coal plant
As part of their global Quit Coal Campaign, Greenpeace activists from 18 different countries have today occupied the construction site of a new E.ON coal fired power plant on the Maasvlakte in Rotterd…
- November 14th, 2008
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Let GM and the other failed auto giants go under
Photo credit: davetrainer Trevor Reichman over at TreeHugger asks why GM and the other corporate giants in the auto industry seeks $50 billion in public funding, while no one mentions help for public…
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Invite Obama to Poland for the U.N. Climate Meetings
The global grassroots climate movement, 350, asks for your help to invite President-elect Barack Obama to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland this December. So far over 48,000 ̶…
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Greenpeace builds Climate Rescue Station against coal in Poland
In light of the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Poznan, between 1st - 14th of December, Greenpeace have set up a “Climate Rescue Station” on the edge of a coal min…
- November 13th, 2008
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Educating Consumers to Encourage Green Growth
In these tough economical times, it is easy for consumers who had genuinely been trying to greenify their lifestyles to fall back on their old habits. The reason for this is simple—those products ar…
- November 11th, 2008
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GreenHeart: Sony Ericsson’s Eco-Friendly Phone
Sony Ericsson recently released a new eco-friendly concept phone called the GreenHeart. According to Sony Ericsson the phone is made from bio-plastic housings, recycled plastic keypads and will come w…
- November 10th, 2008
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Video: Al Gore Interviewed by Digg Founder Kevin Rose
Hosted by Digg’s Kevin Rose, viewers have a rare opportunity to hear from former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. All interview questions have been selected by the Digg and C…
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Chinese Premier: Rich nations should ditch ‘unsustainable’ lifestyles
Photo credit: World Economic Forum During a meeting, with focus on development and transfer of technology that can help tackle climate change, in Beijing with 76 nations attending the Chinese Premier…
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Canada scores badly in environmental ranking
Photo credit: Яick Harris A new environmental study ranks Canada as one of the worst developed countries in the world. The study has been done by the Conference Board of Canada, an independent and no…
- November 6th, 2008
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Green Quote of the Week: Barack Obama
Photo credit: patrick dentler Newsweek has a good quote from Barack Obama when he was preparing for one of the debates: The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the…
- November 5th, 2008
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Change will come as USA elects Barack Obama
The people have spoken. And they have clearly chosen Barack Obama as the next President of the United States of America. Hopefully the election outcome will result in USA moving away from its current…
- November 4th, 2008
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McCain embraces dirty coal, says he is a “coal booster”
Photo credit: Photo Mojo John McCain, the Republican Presidential candidate, who failed to mention climate change in his acceptance speech, who picked a climate change denier as his running mate, who…
- November 3rd, 2008
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As President, McCain will not regulate greenhouse gases
Photo credit: soggydan Joseph Romm, from the Climate Progress blog, writes on Huffington Post that John McCain won’t regulate greenhouse gas emissions if he and Sarah Palin get elected. Romm wri…
- November 2nd, 2008
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“The solution to the climate crisis will also help us solve the economic crisis”
Photo credit: bunnicula Al Gore writes that the next President of USA “must take immediate steps to deal with” climate change: In one week Americans will go to the polls and elect our next…
- November 1st, 2008
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Book Review: “Climate Code Red - the case for emergency action”
6 months ago on Green Blog I reviewed “Climate Code Red – the case for a sustainability emergency” by David Spratt and Phillip Sutton (Friends of the Earth, Melbourne). This important, w…
- October 25th, 2008
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Why Barack Obama should be the next President of the United States of America
The time has come to decide who you will vote for in the 2008 U.S. election. Before I start it should be perfectly clear for everyone that reads this that I am not an American citizen and thus have no…
- October 24th, 2008
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Environmental activists violently attacked by timber workers
Peaceful environmental activists who were protecting an old-growth forest in Tasmania, Australia, have been violently attacked by timber workers as they were blocking the road for them. The timber wo…
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UN says that the current financial crisis could hasten green growth
Yvo de Boer, who heads the Bonn-based U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, is a bit more optimistic about the current financial crisis than George Monbiot is. Yvo de Boer says that the current financial c…
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Sarah Palin can’t name a single man-made cause to climate change
Photo credit: masonvotes Sarah Palin, Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency and running mate with John McCain, ignores basic climate science by claiming that climate change is not man-made and…
- October 23rd, 2008
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Canada re-elects climate wrecker Stephen Harper
As most of the political spotlight is on the presidential election in USA you might have missed the election in Canada last week. Unfortunately not much changed there. Stephen Harper and his Conservat…
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Climate change is happening much faster than previously expected
Photo credit: azrainman A new report from WWF says that climate change is happening much faster than the scientists have predicated earlier. The report says that we must take action on a global scale…
- October 22nd, 2008
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Climate Criminal Australia’s Culture of Ignoring, Climate Terrorism, Climate Racism and Climate Genocide
“You will be SHOCKED by the response…” I belong to a Melbourne-based Climate Action Group called the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group (YVCAG) which is very active in public educatio…
- October 17th, 2008
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Italy and Poland tries to weaken EU’s climate goals
photo credit: rockcohen The governments of Italy and Poland are, as I write this, trying to weaken the already weak climate goals that the European Union agreed on in January. Italy and Poland blames…
- October 16th, 2008
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The new Apple laptops - are they green?
Apple recently released their new line of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, which are mainly made from aluminium. They say that they are their greenest latops ever and claims that they are “highl…
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10% of U.S. Energy Now Comes From Renewable Energy Sources
photo credit: James Bird According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration renewable energy now accounts for more than 10% of the domestically-produced energy in USA during the first half of 200…
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“There is no need to spend a penny of public money on greening the motor industry”
photo credit: Nrbelex George Monbiot says that the motor industry has long sabotaged eco-innovations and that they are now demanding billions to cut its carbon emissions. The green subsidy for car mak…
- October 15th, 2008
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Blog Action Day: You can’t solve climate change or poverty without dealing with the other
Al Gore have said, during the annual World Economic Forum Meeting in 2008, that you can’t solve climate change or poverty in the developing world “without dealing with the other”: &…
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Blog Action Day: The Memo from Lawrence Summers
On December 12, 1991, Lawrence Summers, the chief economist for the World Bank, wrote an internal memo that was leaked to the British publication the Economist on February 8, 1992. DATE: December 12,…
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Blog Action Day: Poverty and Environment
During the last few years societies familiarise quickly with environmental issues. The First and the Second World residents get gradually informed about problems such as climate change and the greenho…
- October 10th, 2008
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ABC Refuses To Run Ad That Attacks Big Oil
ABC, the American Broadcasting Company, seems to be bought up by big oil and the coal industry as they refuse to run the Repower America ad from the We Campaign. The ad attacks the dirty coal and oil…
- October 2nd, 2008
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Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award
The former unknown Alaskan Governor who is now running mate with John McCain and, maybe, soon even Vice President of the USA has been awarded the 2008 Rubber Dodo Award. It is the Center for Biologi…
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“Europe, it’s time to lead”
“Europe, it’s time to lead” and “keep global warming below 2°C”. That is what a new campaign from Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and the Climate Action Network Eu…
- October 1st, 2008
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Tangent Announces “Ultra Power Efficient” Touch Screen Computer
Tangent, who mainly provides computer solutions to education, government, corporate, and healthcare markets, have announced Evergreen 17, a “green” and “ultra power efficient”…
- September 29th, 2008
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Al Gore urges civil disobedience in the fight against climate change
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 30JAN05 - Al Gore at the Annual Meeting 2005 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2005. Photo by Severin Nowacki. Last week, during the Clinton Global Init…
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Earth Overshoot Day Happens Earlier Every Year
As of September 23 we humans have used all the resources our earth can produce this year. That means we are borrowing resources from 2009 and that we are literally consuming our children’s resources…
- September 26th, 2008
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As the Arctic melts polar bears are resorting to cannibalism
Besides changing the climate and environment for people around the world the loss of Arctic sea ice is destroying the habitats for polar bears. Recently we reported about polar bears swimming to Icela…
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Letterman Says “We’re Dead Meat”
Letterman rants about global warming on his show in early September saying “We’re Dead Meat”. He also talks with Thomas Friedman about his new book titled “Hot, Flat, and Crowd…
- September 24th, 2008
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Green Quote of the Week: UK Met Office
The Guardian quotes a statement from the UK Met Office, one of the world’s leading providers of environmental and weather-related services: “Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped h…
- September 23rd, 2008
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GM vice-chair promotes “Volt” while denying climate science
General Motors vice-chairman Bob Lutz is at it again. But this time he doesn’t deny climate change, just the science. During an interview with comedian Stephen Colbert last week Bob Lutz was as…
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Advent Eco PC: PC World’s new eco-friendly computer
Today PC World unveiled, via its Advent brand, a new eco-friendly computer called Advent Eco PC. The Advent Eco PC is made from 75% recycled plastics, comes with electronic manuals, uses 25 watts whe…
- September 22nd, 2008
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NASA: Arctic sea ice reaches second-lowest level on record
A new preliminary report from NASA confirms our worries. The sea ice at the Arctic is disappearing. NASA reports that the Arctic sea ice has reached a second all-time low “since the dawn of the…
- September 21st, 2008
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14 Facebook Groups and Applications That Helps You Save Our Environment
Here are 14 applications and groups for Facebook, a social networking website, which will easily help you to save our environment and climate. If you know about any others please let us know by making…
- September 18th, 2008
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British verdict will strengthen the anti-coal and climate movement
Last week the verdict came in the case against the six Greenpeace activists - Ben Stewart, Will Rose, Kevin Drake, Tim Hewke, Huw Williams and Emily Hall - who in October last year performed a protest…
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A Picture is Worth… Why Offshore Drilling Won’t Help
The image below shows why offshore drilling won’t help to lower energy or gas prices in USA. The data comes from the US Energy Information Administration. The EIA doesn’t expect any oil pr…
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Al Gore Fights Big Oil with New TV Ad
Al Gore and the We Campaign is fighting big oil and their “drill, drill” message with a new TV ad. The new TV ad will be aired on national cable TV, and if they raise enough money they wil…
- September 16th, 2008
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The Plenty 20: 20 businesses, 20 people, and 10 ideas that will change our world
In this months issue of the environment magazine Plenty they have listed the top 20 people, 20 businesses, and 10 ideas that will “change our world”. “There are game-changers and the…
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How are the Candidates Going to Clean America?
The method in which America creates energy has been a hot topic during the 2008 presidential election. For most, a primary concern deals with how we can keep prices down at the pump while eliminatin…
- September 15th, 2008
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Scientists confirms that warmer seas creates stronger storms
Due to climate change our seas and oceans are getting warmer. And now scientists have confirmed that a warmer temperature in the waters will create stronger storms, such as Katrina in 2005 and the mor…
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New Technologies: The way to save the planet
Nowadays the concerns about the environment are very present in the minds of more and more people. Maybe because of the huge amount of information that circles on the internet in site and blogs like t…
- September 11th, 2008
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Overpopulation
Six billion people. That’s the current human population on Earth, and the highest ever reached as well. Things start to get cramped in the cities, while there is everywhere a noticeable depressi…
