Monthly Archives: July 2009

United States: Cheyenne may yield to coal

By | Published: July 31, 2009
Living on Earth: YOUNG: It’s Living on Earth – I’m Jeff Young. In the southeast corner of Montana, on the isolated northern Cheyenne reservation, live some of the most determined and successful environmentalists you’ve never heard of. Over the past four decades the Cheyenne fought powerful energy interests and the federal government to [...]
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Clean tech investment recovers strongly during second quarter

By | Published: July 31, 2009
Business Green: Global venture capital investments in clean technology rose 73 per cent during the second quarter of the year, totalling $572m (£347m) across 48 deals, according to new data from Dow Jones VentureSource. Investment levels are still well down on the $1.41bn invested across 57 deals during the second quarter of 2008, but [...]
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‘Adapt to climate change’

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Reuters: THE United States must prepare for unstoppable climate changes that will have a major impact on farming, industry, recreation and government services, Obama administration officials said on Thursday. ‘As much as we can try to avoid (it), there will undoubtedly be changes in our climate that will have devastating impacts, very significant impacts, [...]
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SF eyes UN Climate Center at polluted shipyard

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Associated Press: Mayor Gavin Newsom and the United Nations are eyeing a former naval shipyard contaminated by radiation, heavy metals and other industrial toxins as the future site of a sprawling new green technology complex and climate change think tank. The proposal would turn a section of the Hunters Point Shipyard, one of the [...]
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Family Planning A Major Environmental Impact

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;redOrbit: Some people who are serious about wanting to reduce their "carbon footprint" on the Earth have one choice available to them that may yield a large long-term benefit – have one less child. A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy [...]
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U.S.: Coal Power Hitting Roadblocks

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Inter Press Service: As more and more states are turning against coal power facilities in the U.S., advocates have been using the legal system to halt new pending plants. In Georgia, a major case is testing the implications of the 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection [...]
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U.S. ready to issue grants for renewable energy

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Reuters: The U.S. government on Friday said it is now accepting applications for some $3 billion in government grants to boost development of renewable energy projects around the country. The money, from the economic stimulus package, will provide direct payments to companies in lieu of tax credits to support an estimated 5,000 biomass, solar, [...]
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United Kingdom: Car exhausts: The invisible killer in our cities

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Telegraph: Fast forward precisely three years. The London Olympics — which Britain partly secured by promising that they would be the "greenest ever" — are now well under way. But the Government has been convicted in court of failing to clean up the capital’s dangerously polluted air and is having to pay [...]
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The all-new Toyota Prius – silence of the lanes

By | Published: July 31, 2009
Guardian: I drove it down to Brighton, because it seemed a very Brighton sort of car – a hybrid vehicle for a transition town. I was expecting it to receive admiration, affirmation, perhaps even sly congratulation. But did it get envying sideways looks from cyclists? Thumbs up from Green activists? Tranced out nods from dog-on-string [...]
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Uncertainties surround future monsoons

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;BBC: It is almost halfway through the rainy season, and the monsoon in many parts of South Asia continues to remain unreliable. In some places it has been crippling weak, while in others it has been devastatingly intense. There are places reeling from drought, yet at the same time there [...]
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India wants climate change pact at Copenhagen

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Agence France-Presse: India insisted Friday it wanted to reach a global agreement on fighting climate change at the upcoming UN summit in Copenhagen but reiterated its opposition to binding carbon emission cuts. "We are not defensive, we are not obstructionist. We want an international agreement in Copenhagen," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Ramesh told reporters [...]
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British Insurers Prepare for ‘Worst Case’ Climate Impacts; Americans Mostly Don’t

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Climatewire: British insurers are raising rates on homeowners to insulate themselves from increasing claims blamed on climate change, a justification that U.S. companies are hesitant — or unable — to embrace. The price of policies covering buildings in the United Kingdom rose 10 percent over the last year as insurers struggle [...]
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New Jersey outshines 48 of its peers in solar power

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Wall Street Journal: New Jersey’s biggest utility is outfitting 200,000 utility poles with solar panels, part of the state’s embrace of a try-anything strategy that has made it the nation’s second-biggest producer of solar energy behind California. Instead of bemoaning what it doesn’t have — bright sunshine, high winds, empty land — New Jersey [...]
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Japan: Asian youths call for ambitious climate pact

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Japan Times: Alarmed by the slow progress in global negotiations on a new carbon-capping pact, young people in Asia are increasingly calling on China, Japan and other major greenhouse gas emitters to step up to the plate, emphasizing that transformation to a low-carbon economy would generate new jobs and other opportunities. Global warmth: Akira [...]
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Indonesia: Prince Charles gives $2.8b to preserve rain forests

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Jakarta Globe: Britain’s Prince Charles has set aside 2 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to help Indonesia and other developing countries preserve their rain forests, State Minister for the Environment Rachmat Witoelar said on Thursday. "His representative came on Wednesday afternoon and asked Indonesia’s government to prepare to discuss the scheme further," [...]
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