The first and central thread in this dialog on radical transparency is the question: “Will it be enough to yield/drive radical transformation for sustainability?” Here are a few thoughts and observations on the subject.
The biorefinery will be built on 24 acres at Dow’s site in Freeport, Texas, where it will use carbon dioxide produced at a nearby Dow manufacturing facility. Algenol applied for $25 million in stimulus funds to cover half the project’s costs.
Yahoo! today said it will no longer purchase carbon offsets for its operations, focusing its climate strategy on reducing the energy used by its data centers.
AP - The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step toward tougher reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks Tuesday by giving California the green light to impose new requirements that could become the national model for combatting tailpipe pollution linked to global warming.
Reuters - The Obama administration on Tuesday approved California’s long-standing bid to set its own tough standards for vehicle emissions, a decision in tune with a national plan to boost fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
From cows to pigs to chickens to people, there’s a lot of solid waste that gets dumped, landfilled, flushed, or otherwise disposed every day. Happily, we’ve discovered the
Dust in the wind is rewriting the cycle of life in the mountains. Throughout memory the warmth of spring has begun the mountain snowmelt, bringing life-giving water to greening plants so they can blossom and renew their species.
But now, scientists say, the timing is being thrown off by desert dust stirred as global warming dries larger areas and human activity increases in those regions.
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Politico - After lawmakers had devoured the last of the Kalua Pig at last Thursday night’s White House Luau, Nancy Pelosi summoned her team back to the Capitol — to ensure the climate change bill wasn’t the next thing roasted on the spit.
AFP - Presidential hopefuls vying for Indonesia’s top job next week are ignoring the environment, despite dire threats from global warming and deforestation, environmental group Greenpeace has said.
Who can you trust to help ensure your home ventilation equipment works as it should?
Being \”green\” has never been so colorful now that zero-VOC paints are available in a wide range of colors.
AP - President Barack Obama is vowing to sign climate change legislation and overhauls in health care and financial regulations this year and is dismissing his critics as naysayers.
AP - Aiming to keep the focus on climate change legislation, President Barack Obama put a plug in for administration efforts to make lamps and lighting equipment use less energy.
Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) — The climate-change bill that passed
the U.S. House on June 26 would set up a âcap-and-tradeâ
market for greenhouse gases that cushions the cost for power
producers, manufacturers and farmers while limiting aid to oil
companies.
(Screenshot of the YouTube video showing the protest in “thongs” in Tel Aviv).
Hot bodies alert! You heard it right. Clothing was optional as Tel Aviv cyclists and roller bladers protested against lack of bike legislation in thongs, and other combinations of underwear (or lack of underwear).
Protesting a helmet law, the cyclists used the forum to balk about the lack of government support for cycling as a form of transportation. The streets of cities like Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are blocked with congestion and stuffed up with pollution. Putting their bodies in front of the l…
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The company expects the plant, located in western China in the city of Chongqing, will use 22 percent less water and 23 percent less energy than other PepsiCo plants in the country.
Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) — The climate-change bill that passed
the U.S. House on June 26 would set up a âcap-and-tradeâ
market for greenhouse gases that cushions the cost for power
producers, manufacturers and farmers while limiting aid to oil
companies.
AFP - US President Barack Obama expressed his opposition to a provision in the clean energy bill that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept limits on global warming pollution, The New York Times reported.
Reuters - President Barack Obama on Sunday called a House-passed climate change bill “an extraordinary first step,” but spoke out against a provision that would impose trade penalties on countries that fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The deadline for the edie awards has been extended to July 10.
AP - A top presidential adviser says it probably will be the fall before the Senate deals with a major climate change bill that just passed the House.
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Why might the O’administration feel the need to sit on a EPA certified report on global warming? One could think of over a $billion reasons, implies CEI (Competitive Enterprise Institute). It is all part of the game of global warming hide-and-go-seek……
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Prepare for a case of job-title envy. Engineer Andy Stanford-Clark works on the kind of projects that usually appear first in advertisements that anecdotally demonstrate a company’s forward thinking. He is a “Master Inventor” for IBM. But IBM is not tooting its own horn: news of Andy’s recent project is picking up speed in media and the blogosphere after being highlighted by BBC…
Bloomberg - June 27 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. House narrowly passed
legislation to impose the nationâs first limits on greenhouse-
gas emissions linked to global warming, handing President Barack
Obama a win on one of his top policy priorities.
The Sahara Desert is crossing the Mediterranean, according to Italian environmental protection group Legambiente which warns that the livelihoods of 6.5 million people living along its shores could be at risk.
“Desertification isn’t limited to Africa,” said Legambiente Vice President Sebastiano Venneri.
“Without a serious change of direction in economic and environmental policies, the risk will become concrete and irreversible.”
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