December 5, 2008 – 2:32 am
On this week’s episode: The Maldives plan to buy a new homeland if global warming sinks their country. Honda unveils the FC Sport at the LA Auto Show. Go green for the holidays with our Holiday Gift Guide Part 1.
August 14, 2008 – 3:47 pm
The following summary was submitted by Andrea Hill, who works with Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development.
Amidst all the complexity of international climate change negotiations, it is easy to lose sight of actions we can take now, using proven technologies. Such “immediate mitigation” is essential if [...]
On this week’s episode: Europeans go crazy for ethical squirrel meat. Bloggers can make a difference. DeSmogBlogger Kevin Grandia pwns The Heartland Institute for publishing a list of 500 scientists that deny Global Warming, and scientists are pissed! And Sarah Silverman’s for Human Rights in Burma. Burma can’t wait!
On this week’s episode: Al Gore is planning on making An Inconvenient Truth 2 – but not really, Crocs starts recycling and donating their “shoes,” Green Gorilla will entertain and educate your kids, and we check in on some Green Celebs.
From SciDev.Net
by Naomi Antony
3 April 2008
Biomass stoves contribute
to black carbon emissions
Flickr/Eileen Delhi
Black carbon, a key component of soot, plays a much larger role in global warming than previously estimated, scientists have found.
They cite black carbon as the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.
“We’ve got one more thing to worry about,” says Veerabhadran [...]
The Alliance for Climate Protection has unveiled a new website called We can solve the climate crisis and is reaching out to a diverse array of groups to build broader awareness and support for solving global warming. They’ve also created this video to illustrate the importance of Americans taking leadership on the issue:
Click here to [...]
My good friend and newly inspired poet Terry Feingold wrote the following poem that I think is worth a ponder …
Woolly Mammals
by Terry Feingold
I sit, before me
Loosely clothed of garments soaked,
Well-read thoughts, some memories,
Some doubtful.
I lay, from within
We speak of melting,
Tomorrow knowing, today comes ghastly,
Meteoric troubled times.
Standing comes easily,
As one from afar, no future,
Not only [...]
January 8, 2008 – 2:48 am
Global warming could cause northern plants to lose carbon
Jia Hepeng
4 January 2008
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] Global warming could cause plants in northern regions to lose carbon to the atmosphere rather than sequester it, according to a new international study.
The research, published in Nature yesterday (3 January), looked at atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and carbon dioxide held in [...]
January 4, 2008 – 9:36 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2008. “California and 15 other states sued the Bush Administration Wednesday, seeking to overturn a federal decision last month rejecting the state’s bid to curb greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, marks a [...]
December 10, 2007 – 6:46 am
TreeHugger
People stranded on rooftops. Floodwaters covering the interstate. Thousands without power, displaced from their homes. Sound like the scene from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina? Right now, it’s the reality for many communities in the Pacific Northwest. The region was recently hit by a major rain storm, which triggered massive flooding on rivers in Oregon [...]
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