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.
A: I'm executive director of the World Green Building Council.
Q:What does your organization do?
A: The World Green Building Council is a union of green building councils from around the world who are working to encourage development of green-building rating systems and accelerate the transformation of the global property industry toward sustainability. Our current members are GBCs in the U.S., Read more
Spain's beaches are expected to shrink by an average of 15 metres (50ft) by 2050 as global warming causes sea levels to creep up while stronger waves and currents eat away at the coastline.
In some of the worst hit resorts, unprotected beaches could vanish altogether while salt water washes into holiday homes, the authors warn. Read more
Rhode Island Governor Announces Ambitious Renewable Energy
Agenda
.
By
Timothy C. Barmann,
The Providence Journal,
September 9, 2006.
WASHINGTON, DC, September 8, 2006 (ENS) - The Bush administration has proposed industry-friendly revisions to air regulations that force power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities to install modern air pollution controls when they expand operations. Read more
Genetic Engineering for
Biofuels
.
By
Andrew Pollack,
The New York Times,
September 8, 2006.
New
Findings Show Methane Released from Melting
Permafrost to be a Significantly Greater
Threat
.
By
ICE CORE ANALYSIS ADDS TO CLIMATE CONCERN
NORWICH, England, September 5, 2006 (ENS) - Ice core records from Antarctica show the current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the past 800,000 years and increasing at an unprecedented rate. The analysis, announced Monday by researchers with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), is further evidence that humans are adding large amounts of the heat-trapping gas to the planet's atmosphere and
Read more
Major U.S. Oil Deposit
Discovered in Gulf of Mexico
.
By
Brad Foss,
The Associated Press,
September 6, 2006.
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