Monthly Archives: April 2008

Advanced Techniques for Improving Gas Mileage

By | Published: April 30, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Note: My article on the recent trip to Choren is finished, but I am waiting to hear back from them before I post it. I signed a non-disclosure agreement before I toured the plant, and I want to make sure they are OK with what I wrote. As soon as I hear [...]
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How to Change the World

By | Published: April 30, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Fortune has a very interesting interview with Google co-founder Larry Page. He hits on a lot of topics that are frequently discussed here, and some that aren’t often discussed, but that I have spent a lot of time thinking about (e.g., geothermal). Here is a link to the interview: Larry Page on how [...]
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Florida Renewables Key to 2008 Climate Summit

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Environment News Service: Florida Governor Charlie Crist today announced the 2008 Serve to Preserve Florida Summit on Global Climate Change. This is the second such summit convened by the governor, who says that since last year’s summit, Florida’s "green" economy has grown. "Florida’s businesses continue to demonstrate that there is [...]
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Could felling and burying trees help fight global warming?

By | Published: April 30, 2008
Mongabay: Could cutting down trees and burying them help fight global warming? An article in this week’s issue of New Scientist suggests so. Ning Zeng, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park, tells New Scientist that thinning forests and burying "excess wood" in a manner in which its didn’t [...]
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Bush has 16 days to decide whether polar bears are endangered

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Guardian: The Bush administration has 16 days to decide whether polar bears are now an endangered species because of climate change, a California judge ruled today. The US court handed a victory to three environmental groups that sued to protect polar bears threatened by melting sea ice, rejecting a plea by the government to [...]
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Native People Warn UN of Biofuels Disaster

By | Published: April 30, 2008
Inter Press Service: Growing demand for biofuels by the world’s rich nations is propelling attacks on indigenous people and destroying their lands and forests, according to native leaders attending a three-week international meeting here. "[There are] increasing human rights violations, displacements and conflicts due to expropriation of ancestral lands and forests for biofuels plantations," [...]
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Firms Coming Clean on Carbon

By | Published: April 30, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Inter Press Service: Thousands of companies supplying some of the world’s largest corporations know climate regulations are coming and are agreeing to measure their emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. "Companies, including those in least developed countries, are worried about the risks of extreme weather, water shortages and so on that climate [...]
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Climate Deal Needs Poorer-Nation Targets, Stern Says

By | Published: April 30, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Bloomb: A new international accord to fight global warming must extend greenhouse-gas limits to poorer nations that have fought caps for years, British economist Nicholas Stern said in a proposal today. All countries must pitch in to reduce emissions by a combined 50 percent and help avoid dangerous temperature increases, [...]
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Carbon Disclosure Project announces findings in supply chain carbon emissions

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;EurekAlert: The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the world’s largest investor collaboration on climate change, with 385 institutional investors holding assets under management of US $57 trillion, today announced the first ever findings of its Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration. Cadbury Schweppes, Dell, HP, Imperial Tobacco, L’Oréal, Nestlé, PepsiCo UK & Ireland, Procter & [...]
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Canada oil firm probed as hundreds of ducks die

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Hundreds of dead and dying ducks could cost Canada’s biggest oil sands producer C$1 million ($990,000) after the migrating waterfowl landed in a pond of oily, toxic sludge in northern Alberta. Syncrude Canada’s operations were under investigation by environmental regulators on Wednesday after as many as 500 birds landed in [...]
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Brazil aims to provide efficiently produced ethanol, but has few takers

By | Published: April 30, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;McClatchy: The ethanol giants of southeastern Brazil have transformed how 185 million residents of this South American nation power their cars and trucks. Now, they say they’re ready to start the same ethanol revolution in the rest of the world, if only the world will let them. That, however, is [...]
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Biofuels under fire as food crisis looms

By | Published: April 30, 2008
Deutsche Presse-Agentur: The increased use of biofuels has been partially responsible for a hefty increase in food prices worldwide with Western governments now having second thoughts on "green fuels" such as ethanol. Once praised as the answer to global warming, several nations rushed into subsidising biofuels, failing to heed warnings from experts that it leads [...]
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United States: Alaska hardest hit by US climate change

By | Published: April 30, 2008
United Press International: Scientists say Alaska leads the rest of the United States in experiencing the effects of global warning. Researchers from the universities of New Hampshire and Maine said small Alaskan villages are slipping into the sea due to coastal erosion and soggy permafrost is cracking buildings and trapping trucks. In an [...]
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Taking the fire out of farming in Africa

By | Published: April 30, 2008
Christian Science Monitor: When he started tending this field, not long after the end of his country’s long civil war in 1992, Joao Jongue’s neighbors thought he was foolish, even crazy. He didn’t burn the cornstalks at the end of the season, but left them on the earth to rot. He mixed tomatoes and [...]
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‘Small wind’ power plants are blowing strong

By | Published: April 30, 2008
Christian Science Monitor: On a recent sunny afternoon Bob Loebelenz pauses to gaze 72 feet into the air at the spinning blades of his wind turbine, a small "clean, free electricity" smile creasing the corners of his mouth. While giant wind turbines that supply power to utilities sprout along ridgelines across the United States, [...]
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