Energy and Global Warming News: World’s Poorest Women Set To Suffer Most From Climate Change; American Psychological Association Examines the Behavior Behind Climate Inaction
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffWorld’s poorest women will bear brunt of climate change President Jacob Zuma has identified climate change and its impact on women as a critical area of concern. “Natural disasters affect women directly and severely because of their ...
India Sets Out Ambitious Solar Power Plan To Be Paid For By Rich Nations
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Maseeh Rahman in New Delhi India plans to generate 20GW from sunlight by 2020, putting green energy targets of developed nations in the shade India has decided to push ahead with a vastly ambitious plan to ...
First Comes Global Warming, Then An Evolutionary Explosion
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffIn a matter of years or decades, researchers believe, animals and plants already are adapting to life in a warmer world. Some species will be unable to change quickly enough and will go extinct, but ...
Arctic Tundra Undergoing Major Changes As it Warms, Studies Show
Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffSeveral recent studies show that the rapid warming of Arctic tundra is leading to a host of sweeping changes, including more extensive fires, the growth of larger vegetation, more absorption of solar energy, melting permafrost, and ...
VIDEO – EJN to Send 15 Young Environmental Journalists to Cover the COP15 Talks
Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Austin Davis We’ve heard plenty about the mainstream media’s complete inadequacy when it comes to covering climate change (see links here). At least one organization, the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) — whose mission is to “establish networks ...
China and U.S. Sign Pledge To Cooperate on Climate and Energy
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffChina and the U.S. have signed an agreement to combat climate change and to work together to help each other make the transition to a low-carbon economy. Although neither country committed to concrete CO2 emissions reduction ...
Cost of Carbon Capture Will Drop Sharply in Future, Report Says
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe cost of capturing and storing CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants is likely to double the price of electricity in the near-term, but technological advances are expected to significantly reduce the costs of carbon sequestration ...
Slimming Good For The Environment, Says Study
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Sophie Blakemore Countries with low body mass index emit fewer greenhouse gases Staying slim is as important for the planet’s health as for our own, a new report reveals. Countries with normal rates of obesity ...
Slimming Good For The Environment, Says Study
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Sophie Blakemore Countries with low body mass index emit fewer greenhouse gases Staying slim is as important for the planet’s health as for our own, a new report reveals. Countries with normal rates of obesity ...
Climate Follies: Bankrolling Dirty Power in Developing Countries
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffIn Washington, it's a popular climate conundrum everyone talks about: Even if the U.S. lowers its greenhouse gas emissions, China and India are on track to dwarf the entire Western World's as they build enormous coal-fired ...
Five smart new things to read about climate change
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffFive climate change pieces with something new to say: Two degrees of global warming -- the target the G8 nations last week approved as a maximum temperature rise allowable due to climate change (and which many argue ...
The Manchester Report: 20 Ideas for Solving the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming The Guardian and Manchester International Festival assembled an expert panel to sift through ideas for tackling climate ...
The Manchester Report: 20 Ideas for Solving the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival's expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming The Guardian and Manchester International Festival assembled an expert panel to sift through ideas for tackling climate ...
Easing Off the Gas
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Roger Valdez Northwesterners are using less gasoline. For our latest research report, we looked at gasoline consumption data in the Northwest for 2008 and found some significant drops. In fact, total gasoline consumption saw ...
Tackling Climate Change by Saving Forests
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffMy guest blogger, Glenn Hurowitz, is Washington Director of Avoided Deforestation Partners. This post is excerpted from a piece first published here. One of the little-known ingredients of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. ...
Tackling Climate Change by Saving Forests
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffMy guest blogger, Glenn Hurowitz, is Washington Director of Avoided Deforestation Partners. This post is excerpted from a piece first published here. One of the little-known ingredients of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. ...
U.S. House Acknowledges Planetary Atmosphere!
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThough the low targets in the Waxman-Markey climate bill appall me, I'm also finding myself filled with a warm glow at its passage in the House. I've been writing about climate change for two decades, and now, ...
U.S. House Acknowledges Planetary Atmosphere!
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThough the low targets in the Waxman-Markey climate bill appall me, I'm also finding myself filled with a warm glow at its passage in the House. I've been writing about climate change for two decades, and now, ...
Reader Report: The World’s First Real Time Carbon Counter
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Bryan Mitchiner Last Thursday was the launch of the Know The Number greenhouse gas emissions counter: the first real-time counter that advertises the increasing amount of carbon in the atmosphere. At 10 characters wide and atop its ...
Reader Report: The World’s First Real Time Carbon Counter
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Bryan Mitchiner Last Thursday was the launch of the Know The Number greenhouse gas emissions counter: the first real-time counter that advertises the increasing amount of carbon in the atmosphere. At 10 characters wide and atop its ...