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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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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May 24, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Al Gore's new film opens in the United States today carrying the same scary message that he's been spreading for two decades: that the world is facing catastrophic climate change because of the negligence of mankind.
But ``An Inconvenient Truth" is debuting with a sort of exquisite timing that Gore has rarely been accused of possessing in his long career in public life, according to members of Congress of both parties. A convergence of factors -- including soaring gasoline prices, devastating hurricanes, and growing Evangelical concern about environmental degradation Read more
But ``An Inconvenient Truth" is debuting with a sort of exquisite timing that Gore has rarely been accused of possessing in his long career in public life, according to members of Congress of both parties. A convergence of factors -- including soaring gasoline prices, devastating hurricanes, and growing Evangelical concern about environmental degradation Read more
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HURRICANES/ EXTREME WEATHER:
Extreme weather- hurricanes, droughts, floods, etc.- damage and destroy crops. Hurricane Katrina did $2 billion damage to agriculture, not including the devastation to the shrimp and sea crops of the fishermen.
Wilma followed, causing a possible additional $2 billion to Florida's citrus, avocados, vegetables, sugar cane, with more damage expected from diseases spread by the winds. Avocadoes are mostly coming from Central America now.
Orange supplies were briefly disrupted when Florida's trees Read more
Extreme weather- hurricanes, droughts, floods, etc.- damage and destroy crops. Hurricane Katrina did $2 billion damage to agriculture, not including the devastation to the shrimp and sea crops of the fishermen.
Wilma followed, causing a possible additional $2 billion to Florida's citrus, avocados, vegetables, sugar cane, with more damage expected from diseases spread by the winds. Avocadoes are mostly coming from Central America now.
Orange supplies were briefly disrupted when Florida's trees Read more
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May 23, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An environmental group sued the Bush administration Tuesday over new rules to boost gas mileage requirements for sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks, saying the regulations do not go far enough.
The Sierra Club, which filed the lawsuit, joined 10 states and other environmental groups in challenging the rules, which would raise gas mileage requirements by 1.8 miles per gallon for the 2008-2011 model years to a fleetwide average of 24 mpg.
The administration released the new rules in March. The program, which implements gas mileage rules based on a Read more
The Sierra Club, which filed the lawsuit, joined 10 states and other environmental groups in challenging the rules, which would raise gas mileage requirements by 1.8 miles per gallon for the 2008-2011 model years to a fleetwide average of 24 mpg.
The administration released the new rules in March. The program, which implements gas mileage rules based on a Read more
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May 23, 2006
Web Note: From: Scott Silver 23 May 2006
In or around 1981 the conservation community (specifically the "Group of Ten") and their corporate partners, jointly and willfully, made a decision that now threatens the survival of civilization -- or so some suggest. They chose to disregard the findings of the then recently released Club of Rome report and embark instead upon the clearly oxymoronic path of "Sustainable Growth." They did so, in part, because the success of capitalism depended upon it. They did so, in part, because their own success depended upon it.
The Read more
In or around 1981 the conservation community (specifically the "Group of Ten") and their corporate partners, jointly and willfully, made a decision that now threatens the survival of civilization -- or so some suggest. They chose to disregard the findings of the then recently released Club of Rome report and embark instead upon the clearly oxymoronic path of "Sustainable Growth." They did so, in part, because the success of capitalism depended upon it. They did so, in part, because their own success depended upon it.
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