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Besides the obvious benefits they bring, it looks like we owe our very existence to plants, which helped prevent the Earth from freezing over during the past 25 million years.
Sakarya University students with their hydrogen-powered car. Photo via SAİTEM.
Gas prices in Turkey are among the highest — if not the highest — in the world, a fact I was rudely awakened to last summer when some friends and I rented a car to drive from Istanbul to Edirne, a round-trip of around 500 kilometers, to watch the oil-wrestling championships. (A story in and of itself.) We paid about $100 for the gas alone, some 38 liters of it. If we’d been driving the SAHİMO,…
As companies emerge from recession-induced hibernation, shake off hiring freezes, and start to cautiously advertise job openings again, they’re finding an entirely different landscape than when they did their last round of recruiting. With all the hope tacked on to green companies and jobs, the stakes are high for companies that blunder. Here are tips to avoid missteps.
Reuters - U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, hospitalized in Los Angeles for a fainting spell days after spearheading House passage of a landmark climate change bill, will be back at work on Capitol Hill next week, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
AFP - Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday.
AP - Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.
It’s hard to get excited about your vacation when you’re worried about the carbon emissions produced en route. Learn about how to “get there greener” with this green travel guide from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
AP - The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday.
AFP - Australia on Thursday pledged 52 million dollars (42 million US) to improve water quality on the Great Barrier Reef, which is coming under increasing threat from toxic chemicals and climate change.
Living off the land is often seen as the ideal for many aspiring greenies. Bucolic bliss. Healthy harvests. Cheery chickens. Milk making moo cows. Plentiful potatoes and a fresh figs. Sunsets sipping Sauvignon.
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience.
If the band continues to migrate at just less than a mile (1.4 kilometers) a year, which is the average for all the years it has been moving north, then some Pacific islands near the equator — even those that currently enjoy abundant rainfall — may be drier within decades and starved of freshwater by midcentury or sooner. The prospect of additional warming because of greenhouse gases means that situation could happen even sooner.
Author: iucn
Keywords: Maurice Strong IUCN climate change Copenhagen
Added: July 2, 2009
Author: TheDudeJeff
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Added: July 2, 2009
Green building experts provide a clear, practical manual on the whole-building approach to sustainability.
Reuters - President Barack Obama, buoyed by a domestic victory on climate policy, faces his first foreign test on the issue next week at a forum that could boost the chances of reaching a U.N. global warming pact this year.
Bloomberg - July 2 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate may pass legislation
to slow climate change and then fail to approve a global treaty
that commits nations to do so, Senator John Kerry said.
How to make your home a healthier place.
What kind of car would you get with the Car Allowance Rebate System, which gives consumers up to $4,500 to trade in old, ineffectient vehicles?
AP - Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman remained in the hospital in his home state of California on Wednesday, a day after fainting in his office.
This report from Greenpeace ranks and rates 20 supermarket chains, including 17 national chains, on their sustainability practices for purchasing seafood and communicating about sustainable seafood to shoppers.
CQPolitics.com - Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the powerful California Democrat at the center of the legislative fights over sweeping health care and global warming legislation, has been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital for tests, his staff said Wednesday.
Considering deer, it’s time for a roll bar.
CQPolitics.com - The fate of global warming legislation in the Senate may hang on the votes of 19 Democrats who have varying reasons for worrying about its political implications:
AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for Japanese companies to help fight global warming through green investment and ambitious emission cut targets, a business lobby said.
CQPolitics.com - Senate Democratic leaders are preparing for what is expected to be a tough fight over climate change legislation, even tougher than it was in the House.
AFP - Canada ranks last among the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations for tackling climate change while Germany is top, the green group WWF and the German insurance giant Allianz reported on Wednesday.
Photo via Francois Schnell @ flickr
There’s no better way to soak up a country than by bike: It’s quicker than walking, greener than just about every other form of transportation, and you get to see towns, scenery, and people that you’d never encounter from the relative comfort of an air-conditioned tour bus. Whether you’re a novice rider or a super-fit cyclist, whether you want a family vacation or a romantic getaway, and whether you’re looking for trips in the
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced measures on Monday to hasten the development of solar energy on public lands in six western states. Salazar expects to have 13 commercial-scale projects with solar power arrays under construction by the end of 2010.
Author: Denmarkdotdk
Keywords: Roskilde Festival Cimate Graffiti Culture Denmark
Added: July 1, 2009
