Friday Linkfest on Monday, Crazy!
Good News
- American President-elect Barack Obama vows to combat climate change. UN climate chief applauds.
- Top US companies of the likes of Nike, Starbucks and Sun Microsystems are urging Congress to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and promote investment in renewable energy.
- California's Bay Area is preparing to build the first electric car network in the US by 2012.
- New USDA rules require that organic cows spend at least 120 days a year in pasture, ending a loophole that allowed feedlots to market "organic" milk.
Bad News
- The UK is drawing criticism for 'undermining' the climate change fight by pocketing the £60 million of emissions permits instead of using the funds for green projects.
- China's crops and water supplies are at risk from massive erosion that affects over one third of the country.
- Mountain gorillas in Congo are threatened by the escalating violence in the country.
- According to the Colombian vice-president, cocaine users are directly responsible for the destruction of 200.000 hectares of Colombian rainforest each year.
- The Bush administration opens 1.9 million acres of federal land Wyoming, Colorado and Utah to oil shale development at bargain prices, (unknown) environmental impacts be damned.
