AFP - The draft of a negotiating text for a new pact on climate change survived its maiden hearing at UN talks on Monday, providing a boost on a road still strewn with many obstacles, delegates and officials said.
Illegal dumping of waste will increase in Perth parks and reserves because of an ‘exorbitant’ increase in landfill levies, according to the Western Australia Local Government Association.
Residents in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead are to be rewarded for their recycling through a pilot scheme starting today (1 June).
Oran Environmental Solutions have been awarded a three-year £12 million contract by leading utilities company Severn Trent Water Ltd.
AP - The 2,700 pigs on the farm that John Horrevorts manages yield more than ham and bacon. A biogas plant makes enough electricity from their waste to run the farm and feeds extra wattage into the Dutch national grid.
The St James’s Palace Memorandum calls for a global deal on climate change that matches the scale and urgency of the human, ecological and economic crises facing the world today. It urges governments at all levels, as well as the scientific community, to join with business and civil society to seize hold of this historic opportunity to transform our carbon-intensive economies into sustainable and equitable systems.
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Green Roof on Canada’s MEC building. Photo via Flickr: by Pardraic
Green roofs have expanded by 35 percent over the last couple years, with more than 3.1 million square feet installed last year. Chicago leads the way in the U.S. with 534,507 square feet worth. That doesn’t seem like a lot considering green roofs are about to be law in Toronto, but it all starts adding up. Washington, D.C. comes in a close second with just over half-m…
AFP - Gruelling efforts to craft a pact on climate change enter a crucial phase on Monday when the 192-nation UN forum takes its first look at a draft text for negotiations.
The first-ever comprehensive assessment of Arctic oil and gas deposits reveals that 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil and 30% of its undiscovered natural gas could be trapped beneath the far north’s barren land and icy waters.
AP - The climate change proposal developed by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama does little to reduce global warming and saddles Americans with high energy costs, Republicans said Saturday.
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Investors voted down a shareholders resolution that would have required Home Depot to develop an energy efficiency plan for its buildings, transportation and supply chain, but talks on the issue may be possible.
These are improvements you can make right now. Some may add years of usability and safety to your home.
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Blame the economy: Your bank account has taken a bruising and you’ve been buckling down, battening down the hatches, and brown-bagging it. Your definition of luxury has faced a similar downsizing, you wince at the price of a latte, and you no longer throw down cash on a whim; it’s all about tightly wringing every last iota of value from your dollar and making cheap chic—or, at least, finding a chic twist on budget-friendly.
For recessionistas trying to balance style and substance on a shoestring—and would rather be dead than caught bare-faced—here are three green cosmetics collections you can find at your neighborhood
This comprehensive report examines the array of water-saving opportunities available for the commercial, industrial and institutional sector (CII) to reduce water use in the nation’s most populous state. Although based on the water-saving potential in California, the report’s recommendations are in many ways universal and the technologies can be applied to other regions.
Existing technologies and practices can help California businesses save up to 1.3 million acre-feet of water every year — that’s enough to meet the needs of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, May 29 (OneWorld.net) - Climate change is currently the biggest global health threat, a leading medical journal has said, noting that water
scarcity, shifting food resources, and extreme weather will drastically affect the world’s poor unless development efforts are stepped up.
AFP - African environment ministers on Friday demanded clear commitment from industrialised countries to fund projects to counter the effects of global warming.
The company developed a mobile phone-based program that details the greenhouse gas emissions from daily commuting; employees testing out the tool changed their commute habits to cut emissions by 30 percent.
AP - Climate-change disasters kill around 300,000 people a year and cause about $125 billion in economic losses, mainly from agriculture, a think-tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan reported Friday.
AFP - Climate change is responsible for the deaths of 300,000 people every year and costs 125 billion dollars (90 billion euros) annually, a new report said Friday.
AP - Africa contributes little to global warming but suffers disproportionately from its effects, the continent’s environment ministers said Friday, calling for more money and support from rich nations ahead of a landmark climate conference.
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I’m no fan of genetic engineering and I don’t particularly like what Japanese scientists have done to monkeys. Inserting genes to make them glow green in the dark just isn’t right. Yet, this is the kind of research people get awards for, and the promise of “treatments for a range of diseases.” Oh, really?
BBC notes that the “work raises a number of ethical questions about deliberately exposing a bloodline of animals to such diseases.”
Artists like Eduardo Kac has been trying for years to raise attention to …
The first-ever comprehensive assessment of Arctic oil and gas deposits reveals that 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil and 30% of its undiscovered natural gas could be trapped beneath the far north’s barren land and icy waters.
Reuters - About 170 nations will meet in Germany next week to work on a new United Nations climate treaty with hopes for progress pinned most on ways to raise billions of dollars to help poor nations cope with global warming.
Reuters - The government has started a pilot project to quantify climate benefits from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the anti-poverty scheme that could become one of the country’s main weapons to fight criticism it is not doing enough to tackle global warming.
Waste Management already generates renewable energy by incinerating trash and converting methane from its miles of landfills. Now the company is wading into a new venture that can turn garbage into synthetic gas for heating, ethanol or electricity.
