Environment & Climate
The Organic Revolution: Change the System, Not the Climate
What if there were an organic technology that could cut greenhouse emissions in half and literally suck down and sequester carbon dioxide in living soil - bringing the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere down to 350 ppm - the level scientists warn us we must acheive in order to avert a climate catastrophe?
Cook Organic, Not the Planet. Boycott Factory-Farmed Foods.
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When Henry Ford told a New York Times reporter that ethyl alcohol was "the fuel of the future" in 1925, he was expressing an opinion that was widely shared in the automotive industry. "The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything," he said. "There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years."
Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to Read more
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June 4, 2006
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Hurricanes
Protest Decries OGlobal Warming Coverup' http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50450 WorldNetDaily, May 31, 2006. "Protesters, including survivors of Hurricane Katrina, launched a 37-hour vigil outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last Wednesday, calling for the agency's head to resign for Ocovering up' an alleged scientific link between severe storms and global Read more
Hurricanes
Protest Decries OGlobal Warming Coverup' http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50450 WorldNetDaily, May 31, 2006. "Protesters, including survivors of Hurricane Katrina, launched a 37-hour vigil outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last Wednesday, calling for the agency's head to resign for Ocovering up' an alleged scientific link between severe storms and global Read more
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June 1, 2006
The town of Columbus, Nebraska, bills itself as a "City of Power and Progress." If Archer Daniels Midland gets its way, that power will be partially generated by coal, one of the dirtiest forms of energy. When burned, it emits carcinogenic pollutants and high levels of the greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
Ironically this coal will be used to generate ethanol, a plant-based petroleum substitute that has been hyped by both environmentalists and President George Bush as the green fuel of the future. The agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is the largest U.S. Read more
Ironically this coal will be used to generate ethanol, a plant-based petroleum substitute that has been hyped by both environmentalists and President George Bush as the green fuel of the future. The agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is the largest U.S. Read more
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June 1, 2006
UNITED NATIONS - Late last week, representatives from 165 industrialised and developing countries -- excluding the United States -- agreed to extend a global plan to reduce the emissions that contribute to global warming past its expiration date of 2012.
But experts say a long-term energy strategy is not just about reducing greenhouse gases. It also requires programmes to boost conservation and energy efficiency, and shift economies toward renewable resources like biogas, wind, solar and hydrogen.
According to statistics from the European Commission, if current Read more
But experts say a long-term energy strategy is not just about reducing greenhouse gases. It also requires programmes to boost conservation and energy efficiency, and shift economies toward renewable resources like biogas, wind, solar and hydrogen.
According to statistics from the European Commission, if current Read more
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May 30, 2006
California is trailblazing again: It aims to be the first state in the U.S. to tackle air pollution from pesticide use. State officials hope to eliminate tons (literally) of smog-forming gases that waft from pesticide-treated agricultural regions. California's Department of Pesticide Regulation -- long accused of doing very little regulating -- is finally getting on the ball, asking manufacturers to reformulate more than 700 pesticides to reduce smog-contributing volatile organic compounds. Next year, the DPR plans to impose stricter rules on soil fumigants, which by weight account for about Read more
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May 30, 2006
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Report: China, India, Brazil Could Slash Energy Use
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36574/story.htm
By Alister Doyle, Reuters, May 30, 2006.
"China, India and Brazil could reduce energy use by a quarter with simple efficiency schemes but banks have been sluggish to lend to such projects, an international study said on Monday. The three- Read more
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May 25, 2006
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Featured stories in this issue...
Time to Dust Off That Old 'No Nukes!' Button
The "powers that be" have begun a new campaign to convince you that we must build hundreds of new nuclear power plants to avert global warming. Campaign partners include the Cheney/Bush administration, the nuclear power corporations, and the New York Times.
Is It All Over for Nuclear Power?
Wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy are sprouting all over the world. Local, small-scale energy projects now produce Read more
Featured stories in this issue...
Time to Dust Off That Old 'No Nukes!' Button
The "powers that be" have begun a new campaign to convince you that we must build hundreds of new nuclear power plants to avert global warming. Campaign partners include the Cheney/Bush administration, the nuclear power corporations, and the New York Times.
Is It All Over for Nuclear Power?
Wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy are sprouting all over the world. Local, small-scale energy projects now produce Read more
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May 26, 2006
As ethanol boosterism spreads far and wide -- from Bush's bully pulpit to the New York Times editorial page to green-group press releases -- a quietly emerging trend is threatening to undermine the biofuel's environmental
credibility.
How green is this ethanol plant?
Photo: iStockphoto.
More and more ethanol manufacturers are looking to power their plants with cheap coal instead of its cleaner and increasingly expensive competitor, natural gas, thereby potentially limiting ethanol's environmental benefits. And the Bush administration is doing its part to Read more
credibility.
How green is this ethanol plant?
Photo: iStockphoto.
More and more ethanol manufacturers are looking to power their plants with cheap coal instead of its cleaner and increasingly expensive competitor, natural gas, thereby potentially limiting ethanol's environmental benefits. And the Bush administration is doing its part to Read more
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May 26, 2006
It's actually kind of funny to hear Americans complain these days about the cost of gasoline and how it is affecting their lives. What did they expect after setting up an easy-motoring utopia of suburban metroplexes that make incessant driving inevitable? And how did they fail to register the basic facts of the world oil situation, which have been available to us for decades?
Those facts are as follows: oil fields follow a simple pattern of production and depletion along a bell curve. Universally, when an oil field gets close to half the amount of oil it originally possessed, Read more
Those facts are as follows: oil fields follow a simple pattern of production and depletion along a bell curve. Universally, when an oil field gets close to half the amount of oil it originally possessed, Read more
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May 25, 2006
Solution to Greenhouse Gases is New Nuclear Plants, Bush Says http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/washington/25bush.html?ex=1306209600&en=4 4779da8fa5a0f34&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss . By Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times, May 25, 2006. "President Bush [went to the Limerick Generating Station in Pennsylvania to call] for the construction of more nuclear power plants to help reduce the greenhouse gases believed to Read more
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