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China's Five Year Plan takes the restoration of a good environment and fixing the massive environmental pollution they have created, seriously. Last week five cities and two provinces to institute limits on GHG emissions. The first implementation plan has been drawn up by Guandong Province, China's largest GHG ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Air Quality, Children and Families, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Health, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Population
Kristin Shrader-Frechette of the University of Notre Dame is rigorous in the presentation of her argument in What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power. In recent times a number of leading environmentalists have concluded nuclear power has to be employed to enable the transition away ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading
A new study by a team of international scientists and led by a NASA climate scientist reports that inexpensive and relatively simple measures to cut two key pollutants could dramatically slow global warming, improve health, and boost crop production worldwide. For years climate-change efforts have focused on reducing carbon dioxide ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell last month, about Air Quality, Emissions, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution
Canada has announced its intention to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), sandbagging the other signatories to the convention. The Kyoto protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, was designed to combat global warming with the agreement allowing countries like China and India take voluntary ... keep reading
Written by John C.K. Daly in December 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy
In 2009, countries of the G8 approved a target of 2 degrees (Celsius) as the maximum amount global temperatures should be allowed to rise above historical (pre-anthropogenic) records if the world was to avert catastrophic global warming. The G8, or Group of Eight, is a consortium of industrialized nations (France ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in December 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Air Quality, Carbon Sequestration, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Poverty & Development
In the course of growing concerns about unstable oil supplies and the impact of fossil fuels on global warming, biofuels are receiving increased attention. Putting ethanol instead of gasoline in your tank saves oil and is probably no worse for the environment than burning gasoline. Biofuels, which are made from ... keep reading
Written by Naseem Sheikh in November 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture (1 comment)
The earth moved in Washington, D.C., today, and it wasn't another freak East Coast earthquake. The Obama administration announced it would reevaluate the environmental review of the dirty Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. That means that, despite being backed by all the might and money of Big Oil ... keep reading
Written by Michael Brune, Sierra Club in November 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Air Quality, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Pollution, Water
Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing substantially more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than previously thought. These findings could change the way scientists model the movement of carbon between land, water, and the atmosphere. The findings were recently published in a Nature Geoscience article entitled “Significant efflux ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in November 2011, about Air Quality, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Education, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
Increased air pollution over South Asia may be responsible for an increase in the intensity of pre-monsoon tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea, research in this week’s Nature indicates. Most Arabian Sea tropical cyclones make landfall, causing considerable damage, so these results highlight a potential additional human health impact ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in November 2011, about Air Quality, Children and Families, Climate Change, Events, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution, Weather
Just in case there was any chance you could forget about the action! One year from the next election, action will again return to DC to try to encircle the White House to ask President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The action begins at 2 pm ... keep reading
Written by Michael Brune, Sierra Club in November 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Air Quality, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution, Water
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