Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
The Road Well Travelled
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist (Wikipedia), United Kingdom
A few weeks ago I read what I believe is the most important environmental book ever written. It is not Silent Spring, Small is Beautiful or even Walden. It contains no graphs, no tables, no facts, figures, warnings, predictions or even arguments. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Agriculture & Food, Consumerism, Environment & Wildlife, Politics, Water, Industry, Media, Population by George Monbiot
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Living On Stolen Time: The Population Problem
It’s overloaded already, but within the
next 50 years we’ll see another
2.5 billion added to this train we call Earth
The tremendous increase in human population has caused us to pass our carrying capacity – the number of members of a species that can survive at replacement level in an ecosystem. How can we grow beyond what […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Population by Joe Brewer
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
President Bush - Stop Muzzling Scientists
Breaking News: White House Spokeswoman, Dana Perino, Not a Climate Change or Health Expert
In one of the more embarrassing ‘they must be kidding’ moments from this administration, White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino responded to a question last week about the administration’s removal of 10 pages from a 14 page report to a Senate panel by the […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Global Warming Science, Politics by Leslie Berliant
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Ted Nordhaus ‘Break Through’ Interview
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, after careers in the traditional environmental movement, opened up a firestorm of controversy among environmentalists when they published their 2004 essay “The Death of Environmentalism”. Their thesis that traditional environmentalism was not capable of dealing with the current ecological crises led to outpourings of both passionate criticism and support. Their […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Green Philosophy by Leslie Berliant
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Building the Youth Voice
Editor’s Note: With this post we welcome Richard Graves to the writing team. Richard is editor of It’s Getting Hot in Here, and will be contributing posts on sustainability topics, community projects and youth activism. Welcome Richard!
Why Does the Youth Voice Matter? There are a few facts not in dispute that tell a troubling story, […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Richard Graves
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Climate Change Mitigation and Energy Policy Analysis Software Takes another LEAP
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), a not-for-profit, international research organization focusing on the issue of sustainable development with headquarters in Stockholm, has released a new version of the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system (LEAP), its Windows-based analytical tool for climate change mitigation and energy policy analysis. SEI’s US center is affiliated with my alma mater, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Alerts - Resources, Politics by Leslie Berliant
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Industry’s Plan for Us
By Peter Montague of Rachel’s Democracy & Health News
The fossil fuel corporations have a plan for us, and it does not include any substantial investment in renewable solar energy. Their plan is focused on “geo-engineering” — which means re-engineering the oceans, the atmosphere and the earth itself to make it possible to continue burning fossil […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Global Warming Science, Coal & Oil, Politics by Peter Montague
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Book Review - The Final Call
The Final Call - In search of the True Cost of our Holidays
by Leo Hickman
I picked this up on holiday recently. It kind of felt right, although I didn’t read it until I got home. In his new book, Guardian columnist Leo Hickman lifts the lid on tourism, and uncovers some uncomfortable truths. There are […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Alerts - Resources by Jeremy Williams
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Benjamin Kahn Honoured for Red Sea Coral Activism
When TIME Magazine named 45 ‘Heroes of the Environment’ earlier this week, Israeli environmentalist Benjamin Kahn was among them.
The honor was noted by the magazine as a choice of “environmental heroes that have stepped into the silence, and in doing so, have given the earth a voice. It remains for the rest of us to […]
No Comments » - Posted in Environment & Wildlife by Stephanie Freid
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Alibaba.com and Yahoo! Back Shark Fin Traders
There can be no doubt about it: Mr. Jack Ma is an extremely savvy businessman, and he deserves a web celebrity status for having created, and managed, Alibaba. Jack Ma was an English teacher before he started Alibaba on a shoe string in 1999. Now his firm, which employs more than 4,000 people, is going […]
9 Comments » - Posted in Environment & Wildlife, Industry by Wolfgang Leander
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Ride to Sustain - Interview with Alex Farrell
Dr. Alex Farrell is the director of transportation sustainability at UC Berkeley and was one of my first interviews in the project. Here we discuss some automotive technology; touching on increases in fuel economy, 2nd generation biofuels, plug in hybrids, and hydrogen vehicles. More on Dr. Farrell after the clips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmF_z23S7Ok
Part I
No Comments » - Posted in Bio-fuels, Transport, CleanTech - Hydrogen, Ride to Sustain by Colin Davis
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Bill McKibben on California Fires
The clips below from Democracy Now start out with a group of polar bears (from the No War No Warming protest) demonstrating at the Whitehouse a few days ago, and then moves on to an interview with Bill McKibben, where he talks about the california fires, hurricane Katrina, U.S. droughts and the Step It Up […]
No Comments » - Posted in Global Warming Science, Environment & Wildlife, Weather by Craig Mackintosh
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Who Framed Global Warming?
Photographers are well aware of the use of frames. The boundaries placed around a scene cause our minds to recognize central features and disregard whatever lies outside the border. Thus, when we see a picture hanging on the wall that shows a waterfall in the center of the image with a stream running down toward […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Green Philosophy by Joe Brewer
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Europeans Living With Climate Change
Ski season is almost upon us in the northern hemisphere. Last December I ran a post on how global warming is affecting the ski industry, and the clip below is an excellent update on this. Besides giving some rather shocking statistics from Dr. Michael Zemp from the University of Zurich on accelerating ice/snow-melt in the […]
