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 A colleague recently sent me a link to look over, and I did so. Here it is:
http://www.sciencebits.com/IceCoreTruth
Rather than enter further into that debate, my response is that we are wasting time in debate due to the risks involved. Global greenhouse... See entire blog item |
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| Government and Sustainability: a How-To |
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 Energetic Kris Holstrom is the first Sustainability Coordinator for Telluride and a smart Colorado county. The action plan she developed encompasses energy efficiency and renewables, green building, food and water security, economy, and recycling/resource recovery. She enlightens us about green codes, incentives and rebates, a household energy audit program, public... See entire blog item
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| Top Environmental Groups Offer Rx on Key Green Issues to Obama's Team |
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Washington, D.C. – A coalition of environmentalists say that work in renewable energy and building efficiency will top the list of green jobs that are expected to help fuel an economic recovery in the U.S.
Representatives of some of the country's most influential environmental, science and conservation organizations made the remarks yesterday in a media briefing after highlighting recommendations... See entire news item |
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| China, India Lead Demand for Extra Help in Climate Change Struggle |
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China and India next week will spearhead calls for rich nations to dig into their pockets to tackle climate change
but will resist targeted curbs on their own carbon emissions, sources say.
The 12-day UN climate talks, starting in Poland on Monday, are a stepping stone towards an international pact, due to be completed by the end of 2009, for addressing climate change beyond 2012.
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| The Parable of the Marriage: Is There a Shrink in the House? |
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 These days humanity finds itself at the center of an enormous converging crisis. A wide variety of global-scale problems in ecology, energy and economics are joining forces before our eyes to threaten a massive disruption of the human experience. Inevitably we ask ourselves the question, "How on earth did this happen to us?"
I find metaphors to be very helpful in thinking about this... See entire blog item |
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| Greenhouse gases hit record levels last year (2007) |
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 Gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in the atmosphere last year, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.
Concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) touched new highs after more steady rises in 2007, and methane had its largest annual increase in a decade, the World Meteorological Organization said. ... See entire news item |
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| Winning the Lemonade Award (lemons included) |
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Here I am sending my thanks to Live Life Veg for awarding PlanetThoughts.org with the Lemonade Award. Live Life Veg is a meticulously run blog that tries hard to show the rest of us why we should change our meat-eating ways for health, economic, and moral reasons - and for environmental reasons as well.
And now I get to pass the award on to... See entire blog item |
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| WCI Student Isolates Microbe that Lunches on Plastic Bags |
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 Waterloo, Canada - Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.
After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them.
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| Now Tibetan Glaciers Are Giving Us a Surprise |
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 Glaciers high in the Himalayas
are dwindling faster than anyone thought, putting nearly a billion people living in South Asia in peril of losing their water supply.
Throughout India, China, and Nepal, some 15,000 glaciers speckle the Tibetan Plateau. There, perched in thin, frigid air up to 7200 metres above sea level, the ice might seem secluded... See entire news item |
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| Is the World Environment a 'Dyno' to a 'Crimp'? |
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 This morning I learned a new expression. A fellow Web user who I met at StumbleUpon.com, with username DynoToAQrimp, explained his name to me (because I asked him - you know, I get curious about things). Here is the explanation that Dyno offered - and maybe you will get the point any moment now:
Dyno=dynamic which means... See entire blog item |
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