Monthly Archives: October 2009

Toward a Sustainability Bioenergy Platform

By | Published: October 31, 2009
The slides I presented on September 27th at the First Nations’ Futures Program at Stanford University are available for viewing for anyone interested: Toward a Sustainability Bioenergy Platform To summarize, the purpose of the First Nations’ Futures Program is “to establish a world class fellowship program focused on building First Nations’ capacity through developing values based leadership [...]
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Who Has Banned Cell Phones?

By | Published: October 31, 2009
Who has banned cell phones? Find out which countries around the world, and which states here in the U.S. have a ban on cell phones while driving. Get some interesting facts on partial bans and the amounts of some fines enforced around the world if you are caught talking on your cell phone while [...]
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A Clunker of a Climate Policy

By | Published: October 30, 2009
Various: The Cash for Clunkers program offers a cautionary tale for the future of climate change control. The federal program paid individuals up to $4,500 to replace their "clunker" automobiles with new, higher-mileage vehicles. Part of the purpose was to give a lift to the ailing auto industry. Another part, at least it was claimed, [...]
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Set That 110 Limit

By | Published: October 30, 2009
Inter Press Service: Every single person should set a cap of a total of 110 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the next four decades to avoid irreversible and uncontrollable consequences of climate change, under a new proposal. The German advisory council on global changes (WBGU, after its original name), which advises the German [...]
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Investment in Ecosystems Key to Adaptation

By | Published: October 30, 2009
Inter Press Service: Investing in the sustainable management of ecosystems and curbing environmental degradation greatly improves the capacity of nations to adapt to climate change, according to a study carried out in 16 countries by two environmental organisations. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Argentine Wildlife Foundation (FVSA) presented a report [...]
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Gas Prices Near 2009 High

By | Published: October 30, 2009
Prices climb amid fairly weak demand. Original post by miscellaneous
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Americans Support Banning Cell Phones in Cars

By | Published: October 30, 2009
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Many Americans support banning cell phones in cars. An insurance survey revealed that 45 percent of drivers have been hit or nearly hit by another driver using a cell phone. DWD or driving while distracted is becoming a real problem on the road. Many people say they would support [...]
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10 Scary Myths About The Law…DUI Is One Of Them

By | Published: October 29, 2009
10 scary myths about the law-DUI is one of them. Find out how you can be arrested for drinking under the influence when you are not legally drunk. There are some misconceptions about tickets, those for DUI and other driving violations that you should know the facts about! Original post by miscellaneous
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Green Friendly Cars From EarthTalk

By | Published: October 29, 2009
Green Friendly Cars from EarthTalk talks about how celebrities and billionaires are buying green friendly cars like the Tesla Roadster, but what can the average citizen afford? There are plenty of hybrid and low emission vehicles out there. Affordable alternative fuel vehicles that the average person can choose from. Original post by miscellaneous
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GE reveals plans for revolutionary lightweight wind turbine

By | Published: October 29, 2009
Business Green: Engineering giant General Electric (GE) is poised to unveil a new lightweight carbon fibre wind turbine blade design that promises to significantly increase turbine efficiency and revolutionise blade manufacture. Wind turbines typically use glass fibre blades, but for turbines with a blade length of more than 50 metres, carbon fibre can be [...]
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Total warns UK lagging on biofuel adoption

By | Published: October 29, 2009
Business Green: France and Germany are progressing well in increasing adoption of biofuels, but other countries in Europe including the UK are lagging behind, according to a senior executive at French oil giant Total. Speaking at a BioFuels 2009 conference in Budapest yesterday, Jacques Blondy, director of agriculture development at Total, said that while [...]
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Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species

By | Published: October 29, 2009
Physorg: Two Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates. This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post examined how El Niño warming affected the abundance of four New World monkeys over decades. The research [...]
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Expect the unexpected when adapting to climate change in Africa, says researcher

By | Published: October 29, 2009
Physorg: Nations, communities and families in Africa need to safeguard their homes and livelihoods against the unpredictable effects of climate change, according to a discussion paper written by Imperial College London’s Professor Sir Gordon Conway, published today (28 October). The paper describes how predicting climate change’s impact on specific countries, regions or towns in [...]
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Congress Takes On Distracted Driving Prevention

By | Published: October 29, 2009
Senate bill proposed to deal with ‘critical safety issue’. Original post by miscellaneous
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Interview With an Algae CEO

By | Published: October 29, 2009
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;So I am finally back home for the next 10 days, and slowly catching up. I had a good trip to Panama and then to Stanford. I had my luggage sniffed by dogs when I connected in El Salvador, and then when connecting in LAX Gwen Stefani and her husband walked by [...]
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