Monthly Archives: October 2007

Zipcar and Flexcar to Merge

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’; Two car-sharing companies will combine their fleets. Original post by miscellaneous
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Next Generation Prius to Stick with Nickel-Hydride Power

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’; Lithium-ion batteries still not ready to hit the road. Original post by miscellaneous
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Oil Shale = Cellulosic Ethanol

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As a reader pointed out, oil shale is in the news again: Oil shale may finally have its moment In a nutshell, ICP works like this: Shell drills 1,800-foot wells and into them inserts heating rods… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Original post by miscellaneous
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This Week in Petroleum 10-31-07

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Halloween Edition – to be updated following the release of the report Yogi Berra once famously noted “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” I will add a corollary to that,… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Original post by miscellaneous
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Canada: Boreal releasing more GHGs than it absorbs: study

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Canadian Press: A new study suggests Canada’s boreal forest may be releasing more greenhouse gases than it absorbs. The study — by Tom Gower of the University of Wisconsin — will be published tomorrow in the journal Nature. Gower studied a one million-square-kilometre stretch of forest around Thompson, [...]
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Pension fund urges more climate risk disclosure

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Calpers, the biggest U.S. pension fund, said on Wednesday that regulators already have the ability to require publicly traded companies to disclose material risks relating to climate change. Calpers, which manages more than $250 billion, as well as other institutional investors, environmental groups and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, [...]
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Nordic nations sound alarm over melting Arctic

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Nordic nations sounded the alarm on Wednesday about a quickening melt of Arctic ice and said the thaw might soon prove irreversible because of global warming. Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland also urged all governments to agree before the end of 2009 a broader U.N. plan to curb greenhouse [...]
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Building the future

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;CNN: As the climate change debate rages, smart businesses are quietly studying its effects on our future lifestyle. High on the agenda is building more sustainable spaces for us to live and work in. Jubliee Wharf in Cornwall, England. A ZEDfactory project using wind turbines and solar thermal energy. [...]
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Religious Leaders Tackle Climate Change

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Associated Press: A coalition of religious leaders urged Congress on Wednesday to ensure that the poor and most vulnerable are protected from the effects of climate change. The appeals comes as lawmakers in the coming months plan to consider legislation that would combat global warming. The representatives from groups such as the U.S. [...]
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Campaigners warn EU biofuel targets could hit world’s poor

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Associated Press: A leading aid agency urged the European Union on Thursday to ensure that its plans to fight global warming by switching to biofuels don’t hit farmers in poor countries expected to grow the crops needed to run Europe’s cars. Oxfam says the EU should drop its target to ensure 10 percent of [...]
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California wildfires unleash climate-warming carbon

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Reuters: California wildfires pumped nearly 8 million metric tonnes of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in just a week, about one-quarter as much as fossil fuels do in that state in a month, scientists said on Wednesday. The release of carbon dioxide in wildfires is part of the natural cycle in which [...]
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UN report: world not meeting climate challenge

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Edie: That is the sobering conclusion of a major new United Nations report prepared by almost 400 scientists. Global Environment Outlook: Environment for Development said that although political attention to environmental issues is increasing, this has not translated into significant process on climate change, loss of biodiversity and other problems [...]
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EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme expands its reach

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Edie: Although the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has only set caps for member states, other countries within the European Economic Area have chosen to run their own schemes in parallel. This week the European Commission has announced that its scheme will link with those of Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, [...]
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Unchecked consumption will waste the planet

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Eureka Street: Cutting waste is the fastest way to reduce carbon emissions and cope with other crises of climate change. Waste is about turning resources into non-usable rubbish without getting full value from them. Waste causes half our carbon emissions, and wastes resources and the human lives that produce them. [...]
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Solar energy boom may help world’s poorest

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: A surge in investment in solar power is bringing down costs of the alternative energy source, but affordability problems still dog hopes for the 1.6 billion people worldwide without electricity. The sun supplies only a tiny fraction — less than one tenth of 1 percent — of mankind’s energy [...]
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