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No double dissolution election on climate change legislation: Rudd

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:39:49 +0000

Australian: KEVIN Rudd has ruled out using a Coalition block on climate change legislation as the trigger for an early federal election. The Prime Minister said today he intended that the government serve a full three-year term, and would not attempt to break a potential deadlock on the climate ...

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MVRDV: china hills - a vision of future cities

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:03:13 +0000

exhibition installation: 'china hills: a dream for future cities' on saturday 28th of november the beijing centre for the arts will open the exhibition 'green projects II, three dimensional city: future china' featuring work of paolo soleri and MVRDV . the centre piece is an installation ...

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China sets target to cut carbon intensity

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:36:14 +0000

World's largest polluter decouples economic growth from growth in greenhouse gas emissions in new plan. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will take part in the Copenhagen climate conference. China announced plans Thursday to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic ...

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U.S. sets climate target ahead of summit

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:36:14 +0000

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will attend the U.N. climate summit next month in Denmark, taking with him a target to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020, the White House said Wednesday. The pledge will not be part of a binding international treaty — the hopes for ...

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Sierra Club Has Launched “Sponsor a Wild Place”

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:00:57 +0000

S ierra Club has launched a green giving program called “Sponsor a Wild Place,” where people can sponsor a national park like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon in honor of a friend, and the friend gets sent a little package with info and a present. It’s also a great money-saver ...

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Mobilization for Climate Justice

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:24 +0000

snow flakey 30 November 2009 High Noon Take Action, Westlake Park, 401 Pine, Downtown Seattle People’s Summit Theatre: Climate Justice Assembly Vote with you bodies! contact: seattle@actforclimatejustice.org 27 November 2009 Buy nothing day! - World Wildcat Strike - Really Really Free Festival ...

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Mobilization for Climate Justice

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:24 +0000

do it you self Northeast N30 Climate Actions (Maine, Boston, New York City, Burlington, VT) MAINE ACTIONS: There are currently three actions planned in Maine: 1)Portland, Maine: An action focusing on false solutions (specifically industrial wind and biomass) including a rally downtown with ...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 4 hours ago on actforclimatejustice.org

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Mobilization for Climate Justice

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:24 +0000

From New York to Copenhagen, powerful companies are cashing in on the climate crisis, privatizing the air we breathe and handing over rights to the atmosphere to the biggest polluters under a new system called carbon trading. Carbon Trading is a fraudulent market approach to climate change many ...

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Mobilization for Climate Justice

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:24 +0000

(8.30am to 11.30pm) Lobby at the State House in support of the Leadership Campaign’s demand to repower Massachusetts with 100% clean electricity by 2020. (12.00pm to 1.30pm) Rally and speak-out at Boston City Hall Plaza , targeted at the federal and international level and demanding real climate ...

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Mobilization for Climate Justice

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:24 +0000

lil_village *Take Action for Climate Justice* March on Chicago’s Climate Criminals! Monday Nov. 30, 2009 11am, Federal Plaza (Jackson and Dearborn) Downtown Chicago On N30, the 10th anniversary of the nonviolent shut-down of the WTO meetings in Seattle and one week before the UN climate ...

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Nationwide Protests in Nine Cities Target Climate Crisis

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:24 +0000

WHO: Mobilization for Climate Justice (www.actforclimatejustice.org) A broad and diverse coalition of organizations working for social, environmental, economic and racial justice has come together to call for urgent action on the global climate crisis based on equitable, democratic and ...

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single feature archives

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:24 +0000

500 pig-snout wearing activists raised hell at Halliburton's annual shareholders meeting in Houston , Texas on May 19. Chanting "corporate invasion is not liberation" and "Halliburton, Kellogg, Brown and Root, Go to Iraq and Loot, Loot, Loot" they disrupted the Halliburton meeting to send a ...

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Mobilization for Climate Justice

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:24 +0000

ORGANIZING A LOCAL ACTION If it makes more sense to organize a local action instead or join a regional action we encourage this and have some resources to help. This could be civil disobedience or legal protest or a combination, based on your capacity and what makes sense for where you live. ...

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Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law 12 days before UN Climate Negotiations.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:02:22 +0000

Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed “anti-riot law”, less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations in ...

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China's climate pledge to meet a quarter of global needs: IEA

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:14:50 +0000

Various: China's pledge on greenhouse gases means it would shoulder more than a quarter of the CO2 emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming, a top economist said Thursday. "China alone would be responsible for more than 25 percent of the reductions the world needs" to ...

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China says carbon target only domestically binding

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:56:20 +0000

BEIJING, Nov 26 (Reuters) - China's top climate envoy said on Thursday the country's newly announced carbon intensity target was a voluntary domestic policy, not an international commitment, but Beijing would achieve its goal."Although this is a domestic voluntary action, it is binding," said ...

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China says carbon "sinks" not covered by target

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:56:20 +0000

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top climate envoy said on Thursday emissions absorbed by carbon "sinks" will not be covered by the country's carbon intensity target, which will be calculated using energy consumption and "production processes." Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the powerful National ...

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[Chinese] China's State Council's executive will study the decision to control greenhouse gas emissions targets

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:56:20 +0000

The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 found this 36 hours ago on gov.cn

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i speak earth - Action at COP15, Cate Blanchett (video)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:21:00 +0000

As world leaders gear up for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) this December, it is more important than ever that people around the world take a stand...

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i speak earth. Demand action at COP15 to protect our planet.

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:21:00 +0000

The Mission i speak earth has one goal: to mobilize the strongest possible public mandate for an ambitious, binding climate change treaty at COP15. Together with actress and environmental advocate Cate Blanchett, we can tell world leaders that immediate action is needed to curb global warming. ...

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Leaked emails mark dangerous shift in climate denial strategy | Mark Lynas

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:14:37 +0000

Instead of targeting high-profile science communicators, climate deniers are now encouraging mistrust of those who collect and interpret global warming data The theft and web publication by climate change deniers of private emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit is ...

Greenfyre's found this 25 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

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In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:08:37 +0000

Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who ...

Yale Environment 360 found this 4 days ago on washingtonpost.com

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Making buildings more efficient: looking beyond price

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

by David Roberts Using energy more efficiently in buildings may be the fastest, cheapest way to substantially reduce carbon emissions in the short-term. How can we make it happen? Last week, New York Times’ David Leonhardt wrote a great column about a new proposal bouncing around the ...

Green Daily found this 10 hours ago on grist.org

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Climate Scientists’ E-mails Hacked, Posted;So What Does it All Mean for the Climate?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:14:37 +0000

A veritable flood of hundreds of e-mails surreptitiously released by a computer hacker from a famous climate change research facility has climate skeptics seeing, or hoping for, blood. It has climate change “consensus” scientists crying foul, but anxious and standing by the ...

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-- UN-Redd Programme - About REDD --

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:55:02 +0000

Deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, fires etc., account for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to ...

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Dozen lesser-known chemicals have strong impact on climate change

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:03:02 +0000

ScienceDaily: Purdue University and NASA examined more than a dozen chemicals, most of which are generated by humans, and have developed a blueprint for the underlying molecular machinery of global warming. The results appear in a special edition of the American Chemical Society's Journal of ...

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Put the fun between your legs: The Bike Bloc » Camp for Climate Action

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:12:02 +0000

For the UN summit Mobilisations in Copenhagen, Climate Camp is teaming up with artactivist collective The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (link) to design and build a new tool of civil disobedience, to be unleashed on the RECLAIM POWER day of action on 16 th December. Made from ...

The Guardian | Environment found this 9 days ago on climatecamp.org.uk

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Washington State Toxic Algae Threatens Razor Clam Harvesting and Coastal Economy

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:36:20 +0000

A year-long shutdown in recreational razor clam digging, a major tourist attraction and local tradition in Washington state, could potentially result in as much as $22 million in lost revenue to coastal counties, according to a new report by NOAA and the University of Washington. Reduced ...

Green Inc. found this 16 hours ago on noaanews.noaa.gov

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Rudd talks climate change with Denmark, France

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:30:57 +0000

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has met other world leaders to discuss climate change on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Caribbean. The issue of climate change is expected to dominate the three-day summit in Trinidad and ...

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American Municipal Power Generating Station

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:51:41 +0000

From SourceWatch The canceled American Municipal Power Generating Station, which would have been operated by American Municipal Power - Ohio , was a proposed 960 MW coal plant to be built in Meigs County, Ohio. It would have consisted of two 480 MW units, the pulverized coal plants that would ...

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Do The Green Thing

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:02:25 +0000

590 of 590 people found the following review helpful: Stars5 Reformed for Nothing TM March 3, 2008 By Fran Polecatcher V (Kettering, UK) - See all my reviews I am the worst thing in the world, an environmentally-conscious shopoholic. I know consumption is bad for the planet but shopping is ...

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The ultimate gift to your loved ones this Christmas would be to buy nothing | Reverend Billy Talen

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:07:17 +0000

Buy Nothing day is an a protest against the environmental 'shopocalypse' that is the Christmas shopping rush Tomorrow is Buy Nothing day in the United States. A group of people including myself will preach and sing at the front door of Macy's department store in New York. We do this every ...

Green Options found this 10 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

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Climate change bill splits Australia's Liberal party

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:11:23 +0000

Opposition divided over greenhouse gas legislation with senior MPs resigning and challenging party leadership Australia's opposition party has splintered over a contentious bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions , with top officials resigning due to the party leader's support for the ...

Ramsay Home found this 10 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

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Brazil: Development Bank Funds Destructive Projects, Say Activists

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:42:50 +0000

Inter Press Service: Public money in Brazil is being used by the state development bank to finance deforestation projects and others that trample rights, concentrate wealth, and encourage "imperialist" expansion of large national companies, according to activists at a three-day meeting ...

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Environmental Plastic Discovery

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:30:30 +0000

News from South Korea is that scientists have succeeded in creating plastic without the use of fossil fuels. The scientists created sustainable polymers used in common plastics that could replace traditional polymers that use chemicals from fossil fuels. The bioengineered polymers may be ...

Green Options found this 31 hours ago on ecoworldly.com

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Ed Begley, Jr. Loses Control Over ClimateGate (video)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:39:47 +0000

Ed Begley, Jr., the enviro-wacko actor gets into a shoutfest and can't stop pointing his finger at Stuart Varney of Fox News: "You're spewing your nons...

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Climate Chnage

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:31:10 +0000

Policy 6.11.2008: Signals, noise and gaps: connecting climate research with the insurance industry. Catastrophe Modeling Forum, NYC. 05.06.2008: Georgia Climate Change Summit 01.14.2008: " Local Warming: Consequences of Climate Change for Atlanta ." 10.11.2007: J. Curry rebuts Bjorn Lomborg's ...

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China, U.S. Square Off on Climate Proposals

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:05:16 +0000

Reuters Smoke billows from a power plant in Wuzhong, of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, November 18, 2009.

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Download: 2009 11 23 PR Levelised Cost Of Energy (PDF)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:23:44 +0000

Climate Progress found this 2 days ago on newenergymatters.com

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New climate targets may not change daily life much

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:07:06 +0000

Associated Press: Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say. Except for rising energy bills. And how much they'll go up depends on who's doing ...

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Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:07:06 +0000

Associated Press: Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical ...

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Nuclear fuel: are we heading for a uranium crunch?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:14:38 +0000

New Scientist: AS THE world prepares for the largest investment in nuclear power in decades, owners of uranium mines last week raised the prospect of fuel shortages. To make things worse, the reliability of estimates of the amount of uranium that can be economically mined has also been ...

TreeHugger found this 18 hours ago on newscientist.com

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Denmark approves new police powers ahead of Copenhagen

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:33:08 +0000

Controversial legislation gives police sweeping powers of 'pre-emptive' arrest and extends custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of "pre-emptive" arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts ...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 20 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

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5-Step Guide to Financing Rooftop Solar

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:00:04 +0000

Most businesses acknowledge the inherent benefits of using the sun to generate clean energy while, at the same time, saving on utility bills. However, there remains great uncertainty on how best to finance the initial capital required for the installation, operation and maintenance of ...

EcoTech Daily found this 21 hours ago on environmentalleader.com

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Hacked climate scientists' emails in context

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

A huge amount of email from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit was hacked and released onto the web, causing much rejoicing from the climate change denialists. They read through the corpus of email and found that the scientists working on climate change often have substantive disagreements ...

DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds ... found this 2 days ago on boingboing.net

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Senator Inhofe Accuses Conservative Bloggers of Hacking Climate Research Unit, Praises Criminals for their Timing

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

Kevin Grandia observed the other day that Climate Depot — which is published by Marc Morano of Swift Boat conspiracy fame — appeared to be ground zero for the ‘Climategate’ conspiracy. But until today, there had not been any indication that conservative bloggers were ...

DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds ... found this 2 days ago on enviroknow.com

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Science historian reacts to hacked climate e-mails - Capital Weather Gang

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

You miss the point Andrew, and the real damage these emails expose. Try as you might to belittle their significance, the email trove calls into question the very authority of scientists who favor the warming alarm and questions their integrety. They are exposed for the fraudsters they are, and ...

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The “ClimateGate” Burden of Proof

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

After the large volume of climate skeptic/denier comments that came in yesterday disagreeing with my post on the relative insignificance of ClimateGate, I feel that more needs to be said. This time, let me couch my argument in a different format, so that perhaps it will be better ...

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The SwiftHack Scandal: What You Need to Know

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

First of all, this story should never have been called ClimateGate. Given the similarities between this smear job and the Swift Boat attacks on Senator John Kerry, SwiftHack is a far more appropriate name.

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The SwiftHack Scandal: What You Need to Know

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

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