EarthBlips - Top Environment News, Videos, and Blogs

Green Consumers and the Recession: Is It Really Different This Time?

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:04:27 +0000

How have consumers' green shopping habits changed much during these tough economic times? There are at least a couple schools of thought: one, that green consumerism has gotten steamrolled by the recession, viewed as a luxury no longer affordable; the other, that green shopping has endured as ...

makower posted 5 hours ago from readjoel.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Green Grid

British treasury chief urges climate agreement

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:26:33 +0000

Associated Press: British Treasury chief Alistair Darling has urged the world's top finance officials to reach an agreement on bearing the cost of fighting climate change before a UN summit on global warming next month. Addressing finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 rich ...

Ramsay Home found this 4 hours ago on google.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change

Lifting the lid on climate change talks

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 03:51:37 +0000

Rich countries bullying poorer ones, mud-slinging and back-stabbing - environmental summits can be vicious At 8am on Wednesday 7 October, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the first floor of the UN building in Bangkok and merged into a throng of diplomats, ...

Ramsay Home found this 20 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Green Grid

Riverkeeper Releases Fifth Gas Drilling Reporter

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:29:40 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 Riverkeeper Today Riverkeeper released the fifth volume of its Industrial Gas Drilling Reporter. The Reporter collects impact stories of industrial gas drilling from across the country, provides an update on the State environmental review, links to ...

Ramsay Home found this 6 hours ago on commondreams.org

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, New York, Riverkeeper, Methane Gas, Oil Drilling

Climate activists fast to push leaders to sign strong deal at Copenhagen

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:28:38 +0000

Anna Keenan and Sara Svensson expected to be joined by at least 150 others as 'moral response to an immoral situation' Scores of environmental activists from five continents have begun a fast to put pressure on countries to agree a strong deal at climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month ...

Greenfyre's found this 17 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change

First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:37:55 +0000

NEW HAVEN, W.Va.--A 100-story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant--a total of 3.5 million tons a year. The facility just outside the town of New Haven boasts a single 65-meter-high boiler capable of generating enough steam to pump out 1,300 megawatts of electricity--enough to power nearly one million average American homes a month--continuously. And now ...

Peak Oil News found this 22 hours ago on scientificamerican.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Energy Efficiency, West Virginia

Brendan Smith: What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:01:35 +0000

While fewer and fewer people are willing to publicly deny the validity of global warming science, those who oppose action to protect the climate have taken up a new strategy: Denying that climate change will have a major impact on the U.S. economy. This denial is rejected by most economists who have studied climate change. In a survey of 144 top climate economists released November 4, 2009 by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, 84% agreed that "the ...

Ramsay Home found this 23 hours ago on huffingtonpost.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change

What will it take to force political action on climate change?

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:01:39 +0000

As utilities fire up their "clean coal" machines and international negotiators haggle over the precise definition of a tree , only one entity has the courage to stand and deliver the hot air the world so desperately craves on climate change: the U.S. Senate. After a hectic couple of weeks, filled with Republican walkouts and Democratic intransigence, the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee has pushed a bill to the Senate floor that would cut carbon dioxide. [More] ...

Ramsay Home found this 23 hours ago on scientificamerican.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change, George Will, Energy Efficiency

Ethical travel company drops carbon offsetting

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:55:06 +0000

One of Britain's leading ethical travel operators has launched a scathing attack on the carbon offset industry and has decided to stop offering offsets to its customers as a way of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Justin Francis, the founder of responsibletravel.com, said he had decided to abandon offsets because he believes they have become a "medieval pardon that allows people to continue polluting". > >

Permaculture Research Institute of Australia found this 17 hours ago on independent.co.uk

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Green Grid

Fossil fuel subsidies "bringing us closer to irreversible climate change"

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:45:19 +0000

Mongabay: The Green Economy Coalition is urging G20 finance ministers to rapidly put an end to fossil fuel subsidies. In a letter to the ministers, the coalition argues that these subsidies are contributing directly to climate change and making it difficult for the world to transition to a ...

Ramsay Home found this 36 hours ago on news.mongabay.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change

Brendan DeMelle: Cautious optimism for Copenhagen deal as Barcelona climate talks end

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:09:00 +0000

The mood was markedly improved on the final day of the Barcelona climate talks , as delegates, observers and non-governmental organizations all brushed off the pessimism that dominated much of this week and announced that there is still hope for a global deal at the Copenhagen COP15 sumit . News that the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee had advanced the Kerry-Boxer bill forward - coupled with revelations that some progress was made in Spain on several key issues during the ...

Strategies for Sustainability found this 22 hours ago on huffingtonpost.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change

Climate Justice Fast is to be … indefinite

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:28:38 +0000

BPSDB This morning two amazing women, Anna Keenan and Sara Svensson, gave a press conference in Barcelona about the Climate Justice Fast . Nothing I might say could compare to their words and actions. I can’t embed the webcast, so please click the link and hear why they are putting their ...

greenfyre posted 17 hours ago from greenfyre.wordpress.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change

Couple's book tackles evangelicals' questions on climate change

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:24:58 +0000

McClatchy: As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they'd heard on talk radio. So Hayhoe and her husband, Andrew Farley, the pastor of a nondenominational church in Lubbock, ...

Ramsay Home found this 26 hours ago on mcclatchydc.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change, Texas

Civil unrest has a role in stopping climate change, says Gore

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:08:34 +0000

Ahead of Copenhagen summit, former US vice-president says 'non-violent lawbreaking' is legitimate in persuading governments to cut emissions Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil ...

Ramsay Home found this 27 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change, Al Gore, Barack Obama, United States

Global Climate Change Lobby

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:56:17 +0000

image Overview Stalemate in Copenhagen Global attempts to craft a pivotal new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being stymied by a far-reaching, multinational backlash led by fossil fuel industries and other heavy carbon emitters, according to an eight-country report by the ...

Commondreams.org Newswire found this 3 days ago on publicintegrity.org

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change

Climate Change: India Plays Tough on Carbon Emissions

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:20:30 +0000

If U.S. diplomats consider India to be a major obstacle to global climate-change negotiations and they do it might be because of Sunita Narain. The director of the influential Centre for Science and Environment, Narain can be as caustic as she is intelligent, and never more so than when she ...

Ramsay Home found this 35 hours ago on time.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, India, Climate Change

Brendan DeMelle: Why Developing Countries Cannot Afford Failure In Copenhagen

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:09:00 +0000

The African delegation insisted today in Barcelona that its decision to walk out on negotiations Tuesday was necessary in order to jolt the intransigent European Union and other developed nations to move forward with serious discussions, rather than obstruct progress by bringing only lofty rhetoric and no numbers to the negotiating table. The plan seems to have worked, albeit temporarily, as negotiations resumed today about how to extend the Kyoto Protocol and forge binding agreements with the West ...

Strategies for Sustainability found this 22 hours ago on huffingtonpost.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment

The “Connected Home”

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:53:08 +0000

Research from connected home provider Intamac shows people want to conserve energy to save money rather than stop global warming. Consumers in North America and the UK admit the main reason they want to conserve energy in the home is to save money rather than reduce the effects of global ...

got2begreen posted 28 hours ago from got2begreen.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Green Grid

Philippines targets $2.5 billion geothermal development

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:46:41 +0000

By Leonora Walet, Asia Green Investment Correspondent HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Philippine government aims to approve contracts to explore and develop the country's massive geothermal energy resources, which could attract more than $2.5 billion in private investment, an official said. The ...

Yale Environment 360 found this 31 hours ago on reuters.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Philippines, Hong Kong, Iceland

Further cooperation needed on climate change, economic growth: British Chancellor Darling

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:01:37 +0000

Xinhua: British Chancellor Alistair Darling called for further cooperation in securing more balanced global economic growth and combating climate change in the future here on Friday during the G20 Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor Meeting. He said that though complete consensus could ...

Ramsay Home found this 23 hours ago on news.xinhuanet.com

Find more top green news, videos, and blogs on EarthBlips: Environment, Climate Change, Alistair Darling