Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ubuntu Stands Tall

By | Published: March 31, 2008
© abardwell At the recent CanSecWest Applied Security Conference that was held in Canada, three computers running Mac OS X, Vista and Ubuntu Linux respectively were offered for hacking. None of the three were compromised remotely, i.e., via network access, on the first day. The second day, with rules relaxed a bit by allowing hackers access to [...]
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LCA on Renewable Diesel

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Thanks to a reader for this tip. Argonne National Laboratory has just published a Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) of biogasoline, biodiesel, green diesel, and petroleum diesel: Life-Cycle Assessment of… [[ 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: Imperial oil sands plans dealt blow

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Globe and Mail: The federal government has revoked a key water permit for Imperial Oil Ltd.’s [IMO-T] proposed $8-billion Kearl oil sands mine, delaying work on a major new oil sands development as environmental scrutiny of the massive projects around Fort McMurray intensifies. Imperial, which is majority-owned by Exxon Mobil Corp., has been granted [...]
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United States: House advances proposal to impose state’s first CO2 tax

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Associated Press: A proposal imposing the state’s first tax on carbon dioxide emissions won first-round approval Monday night in the House, but some members didn’t see it as a sincere effort to combat global warming. The proposal’s sponsors drafted it so that its tax of $37 on each ton of excess CO2 emissions probably [...]
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Gore Announces Global Warming Effort

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Associated Press: Former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign Monday calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The Alliance for Climate Protection’s campaign, dubbed "we," will combine advertising, online organizing and partnerships with grass-roots groups to educate the public about global warming and urge solutions from elected [...]
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Global warming, global health: Campaign will raise awareness

By | Published: March 31, 2008
USA Today: From deadly heat waves in the Midwest and Northeast to more intense Gulf Coast hurricanes and Southwest droughts, the effects of climate change will have an unprecedented impact on the health of Americans, a report said Monday. The connection between global warming and public health is the focus of a new campaign [...]
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Global Warming Bringing Early Spring Seasons To Eurasian Forests

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Science Daily: With the help of satellite data, researchers from laboratories in France(1), the UK, Japan and Russia have completed the accurate and large-scale mapping of leaf appearance dates in boreal forests. Their work has revealed a remarkable trend towards earlier foliation, which occurred between 1987 and 1990, over a large part of northern Eurasia, [...]
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Chunk of Antarctic ice shelf collapses; global warming blamed

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Canadian Press: A chunk of Antarctic ice suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said last Tuesday. Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 414-square-kilometre chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for [...]
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Britain Introduces Biofuel Target Amid Concerns

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Voice of America: Britain is stepping up the use of biofuels with new targets in the coming weeks – as the first step toward meeting an EU directive that five percent of all transport fuels come from renewable energy sources by the year 2010. Tendai Maphosa takes a closer look at the pros and cons [...]
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United States: Baby step to protect the coast from drilling

By | Published: March 31, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle: California moved a step closer to permanently protecting its shores from offshore oil drilling Monday when the House approved legislation to ban development in federal waters along all 76 miles of Sonoma County’s coastline and off the southern tip of Mendocino County’s coast. The measure would more than double the size [...]
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‘Fossil Fools’ Protests Target Oil Industry

By | Published: March 31, 2008
OneWorld US: Green groups are planning to celebrate April Fools Day Tuesday with a variety of actions designed to embarrass oil industry bosses gathering in Washington. "Our political and corporate leaders have been fooling around with our future by refusing to take the bold action needed to avert a climate crisis," said Brianna Cayo-Cotter [...]
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Poor nations fear being left in cold on global warming

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Agence France Presse: Outraged poor nations bearing the brunt of global warming have become increasingly bold in UN-led climate talks, but some worry that recent trysts of large countries are leaving them out in the cold. A grouping of 192 countries under the United Nations is leading the way in negotiating a groundbreaking climate [...]
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Land Once Preserved Now Being Farmed

By | Published: March 31, 2008
US News and World Report: Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. government, in an attempt to reduce the environmental fallout from large-scale farming, has been paying farmers to set aside less-than-ideal land for conservation. The results have been overwhelmingly positive: Soil erosion has been reduced; chemical and fertilizer runoff has eased; habitats for game birds and [...]
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United Kingdom: Warning over green homes target

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Press Association: Turning the UK’s existing housing stock into low carbon homes could be achieved by the end of the next decade if there is significant investment in "green" technology such as solar water heating, a report says. But without a radical shift in Government policy, the housing sector will not achieve its emissions [...]
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United Kingdom: TUC presses for clean coal decision

By | Published: March 31, 2008
Guardian: The government comes under renewed pressure today to step up backing for the use of clean coal as part of future electricity generation. The call to speed up decision-making comes from the TUC’s clean coal task group, which includes representatives from unions and companies within the coal and power industries. It said delays [...]
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