Category Archives: environmentFriends of The Earth
October 17, 2007
For Immediate Release
Legislation’s allocation of permits to polluters could be worth trillions, says analysis from Friends of the Earth, and the coal industry stands to be the biggest winner
WASHINGTON — Global warming legislation expected to be introduced tomorrow could provide giveaways worth hundreds of billions or even [...]
Filled with sound and fury, but signifying nothing new, the George W. Bush administration made a grand show today of caring about climate change (see the New York Times story Bush Outlines Proposal on Climate Change). The thinly veiled, politically orchestrated State Department conference had Bush playing the same false notes, in a lame duck [...]
Quantum Shift TV has launched a video contest that challenges K-12 students across North America to document their social and environmental projects. The winning schools will receive US$200,000 in cash and prizes. Check out their promotional video and go to http://quantumshift.tv/schools/ for more complete information on how to participate.
This article is contributed by My Green Element author Stefen Deeran. He sent it to me along with this note.
The environment is threatened as nations and oil companies jockey for North Korean coal. Kim Jong-il is opening up his dictatorship to oil exploitation. Now that the Korean summit with the South has [...]
SciDev.net
16 August 2007
Village in Nagarkot, Nepal
Almost unnoticed, Nepal is developing simple and cheap technologies that make the best of local resources and don’t damage the environment.
Down a narrow alley in Kathmandu’s historic heart, through a low door, you enter Akal Man Nakarmi’s workshop. Nakarmi’s surname means ‘metalsmith’ and the soft-spoken craftsman’s ancestors crafted copper utensils [...]
August 15, 2007
NASA
During its almost 30-year lifespan, the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) program provided unique and valuable information that shaped public policy and international perspectives on the environment. The instrument was important because its data established the geographical extent of the “ozone hole” over the Antarctic, and monitored its year-to-year evolution.
With the recent decommissioning [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
The 11th Hour Opens . Film Review by Manohla Dargis, The New York Times, August 17, 2007. “Yeah, yeah, yeah, the environment, blah, blah, blah, melting ice caps. To judge from all the gas-guzzlers still fouling the air and the plastic bottles clogging the dumps, it appears that the news that we [...]
EarthJustice
In Brief: Global warming isn’t just a future problem. It’s our problem. Now.
The Gulf Coast is still reeling from the efffects of Hurricane Katrina - click to enlarge
Photo: Dr. Jason Henderson, SFSU
On June 5, 2007, the Florida Public Service Commission rejected a proposed plan to build the nation’s largest new coal-fired power plant — a [...]
TreeHugger
Margaret Thatcher is supposed to have said “A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.” The sentiment is still strong as the private car continues to be dominant. Lynsey Hanley pulls no punches in the Guardian, blaming most of our social and environmental ills [...]
Imelda Abano
7 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Rural flooding in
Bangladesh
A new flood forecasting system could help thousands of vulnerable people in flood-prone areas of Bangladesh prepare for disaster.
The system — based at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States and jointly developed with the US-based National Center for Atmospheric Research — could deliver up to ten-day [...]
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