It seems the height of irony that the original size of the Wall Street bail out, $700 billion (ballooned to a mere $840 billion before it passed Congress) is about the same dollar amount as what we spend on oil in the United States in a year - 20 million barrels ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant yesterday, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Economics, Finance, Green energy, Politics
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Stewart Barr, of Exeter University, who led the research, said: "Green living is largely something of a myth. There is this middle class environmentalism where being green is part of the desired image. But another part of the desired image is to fly ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts yesterday, about Climate Change
Editor's Note: Today's guest post comes to us from Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club National Coal Campaign Director If you watched the television ads before and after the last Presidential Debate, you probably noticed something.Coal. A lot of it. In an attempt to buy public approval and confuse ... keep reading
Written by Sierra Club yesterday, about Coal & Oil, Media, Politics
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced the launch of its list, called Carbon Offset List, of approved carbon offsets on September 10. EDF says it created the list to fill the need for unified standards in the rapidly growing market for offsets. It touts the list as the "first of its ... keep reading
Written by Gina-Marie Cheeseman yesterday, about Carbon Trading, Pollution (1 comment)
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The Millennium Seed Bank is facing a funding shortfall that could force it to halt operations. Scientists at the seed bank need to raise more than £100 million in little more than a year to safeguard the facility’s future. Failure to secure ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts this month, about Agriculture & Food, Economics, Finance
By Peter Montague of Rachel’s Democracy & Health News [Rachel's introduction: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants." -- Al Gore]Most of my friends want to deny it, but the evidence is compelling: the ... keep reading
Written by Peter Montague this month, about Carbon Sequestration, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Philosophy & Religion, Politics, Protest
Editor's Note: This article, from Celsias writer John P., originally ran on his blog View Tomorrow Not the planet Mars, but the lighter-than-air wind turbine developed by a Canadian company called Magenn Power. The Magenn Power Air Rotor System (MARS) rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind ... keep reading
Written by John P. this month, about Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Green energy
Adapted from Chapter 13, "The Great Mobilization," in Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), available for free downloading and purchase One of the questions I am frequently asked when I am speaking in various countries is, given the ... keep reading
Written by Lester Brown this month, about Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Politics
What do you get when you mix two cabin-fevered humans wintering over in Antarctica with an egg-less male Emperor Penguin? A harrowing, romantic story of frustrated hopes and melted ice caps, played out on stage in New Zealand's first ‘off the grid' theatre work, Heat. The play opens in ... keep reading
Written by Sophie Jerram this month, about Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Green energy
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon. ... "If you're a young person looking at the future of ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts this month, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Politics, Protest
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